Example sentences of "[be] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
2 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
3 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
4 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
5 | Well it 'll been in on the table . |
6 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
7 | It must be twisted or summat cos it 's never done it before when I 've been in with the you know , to go bingo . |
8 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
9 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
10 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
11 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
12 | The fame of mind I 've been in from the beginning , ’ he says , ‘ is a belief in the spirit : it moves me , it 's in my heart . |
13 | The expansion also meant a round of promotions for the stalwarts who had been in from the beginning . |
14 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
15 | situational humour , ie funny within the context of the situation people are in at the time so that people can relate to it through a common , shared experience |
16 | For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house . |
17 | Eventually we can expect the central mark ( which tells us which region we are in at the moment ) to have moved to parts of the two sequences which are quite different . |
18 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
19 | There are a number of reasons why we need to make sure that we are in at the starting post in terms of links with Central and Eastern Europe . |
20 | ‘ But I do n't envy the position the jockeys are in at the moment . |
21 | The chances are , however , that whichever way the cookie is crumbled on April 9 we are in for the shake-up we were denied with the departure of Mrs Thatcher . |
22 | We are in for the long-term benefits which imply a long-term strategy and involvement ’ . |
23 | And with Robert Jones — another triumphant Lion of '89 — the ace in the Welsh scheme , Australia are in for the biggest examination of their status since they acquired it at Twickenham last year . |
24 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
25 | And just finally , on Friday we are in to the we 've been invited into a bags competition , you know , that 's after the bags actually means bookmakers afternoon greyhound services , and we race that every Friday as you know erm anyway we 've been invited to erm a national championship involving the other bags tracks that erm involved in this erm and so we stage our two heats on Friday . |
26 | Even car towaways are in on the act . |
27 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
28 | The western American states are in on the act , too — Oregon , California and Alaska are growing at seven per cent — twice the rate of the remainder of the country . |
29 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
30 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |