Example sentences of "[be] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early autumn is the time to be in the Basque country , because it is usually drier then than in the summer , but still blessedly warm , and wonderfully ‘ luminous ’ as the French like to put it . |
| 2 | A very different expressive effect is evoked by the bare infinitive be in the four examples of it found so far : ( 185 ) I could feel him fighting with himself … during all those afternoons … our wonderful afternoons of happiness ! … and I said nothing … |
| 3 | The ions in water and blood happen to be in the critical mass range . |
| 4 | INTEL , the California-based semi conductor manufacturer , yesterday confirmed its first European manufacturing base is to be in the Irish Republic . |
| 5 | ‘ If anyone had told me when I took over in November that we would be in the Irish Cup semi-final , I would n't have believed it . |
| 6 | Swindon now know who their opponents will be in the fifth round of the FA Cup . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later . |
| 8 | If a dose dependent increase in gastric acid secretion occurs in response to intravenous infusion of ethanol it must be in the lower dose range . |
| 9 | For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc . |
| 10 | For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc . |
| 11 | but of course when religious orders come in they usually want to be in the inner city and , and would n't exactly qualify |
| 12 | The best 120 will be in the International event , where Olympic champion Chris Boardman ( North Wirral Velo-Kodak ) renews battle with Scottish wonder man Graeme Obree . |
| 13 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 14 | Ms Cann believed , however , that an attractive new deal would be in the long term interests of all . |
| 15 | If they are to occur , it is likely to be in the long run when economic actors can adjust to the new situation . |
| 16 | Again , think about it could it be useful do n't know , might be in the long term . |
| 17 | I 'll be in the Imperial though if anybody is going there . |
| 18 | To show how adult even a major Fox movie could be in the late sixties , the credit sequence has the two lovebirds in bed together , cutely sleeping side by side and back to back . |
| 19 | Fortunately for the Labour Party , the position of the Tories as the party of government was less secure that it appeared to be in the late '50s . |
| 20 | Theda judged her to be in the late thirties , perhaps . |
| 21 | What did Freud call it first time round , in the , this would be in the late eighteen eighties ? |
| 22 | Walker suggests that if there is an optimum age for mature students it is likely to be in the late twenties . |
| 23 | Its price tag is said to be in the low $200,000 range . |
| 24 | The new law will have the advantage that the prosecution will not be in the present difficulty ( referred to in paragraph 19 ) of deciding which of two mutually exclusive offences to charge . |
| 25 | Must be in the PRESENT TENSE |
| 26 | On the contrary , they would have the normal reason for disregarding any belief or information on that score : that the law is the law and must be followed , no matter how unpopular it might be in the present climate of political opinion . |
| 27 | Feeling more put out than embarrassed when the theatre management turned them away , the six complained that they had understood that ‘ you had to be in the nude in order to get in ’ . |
| 28 | What 's he want to be in the nude for ? " |
| 29 | We appear to be in the cosmopolitan city world of the uprooted . |
| 30 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |