Example sentences of "is in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three-quarters of the AIDS problem is in London and much of the rest in Scottish cities . |
| 2 | For many a stay in hospital is in appropriate but they are often too weak or ill to care for themselves properly . |
| 3 | It is in fact advisable to name more than one Executor in case one of them dies before you . |
| 4 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
| 5 | ACET is in a unique position to meet the need by carrying a high impact message aimed at changing high risk behaviour . |
| 6 | Of course , none of the work carried out by Amnesty could continue without money and it is in this respect that sections , particularly the larger sections like the British , have a vital role to play . |
| 7 | Despite assurances from government officials that an investigation is in progress , his whereabouts remain unknown . |
| 8 | Fr Jin has apparently refused — he is in good health despite his age — and is not prepared to admit to any criminal activity to secure his release . |
| 9 | Amnesty knows , for example , what the long term pattern of abuse is in a country : the known torture methods , the likely victims , the agencies regularly implicated in violations . |
| 10 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 11 | It is in this more informal context that his draft for a sixteenth and ironical discourse should be read . |
| 12 | We know that if you are born with genius , labour is unnecessary ; if you have it not , labour is in vain ; genius is all in all . |
| 13 | Today , theory is in high fashion at Western universities , and varied in scope . |
| 14 | Without comparative material , the reader is in serious difficulty about knowing whether to agree with this three-way discriminative judgement . |
| 15 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 16 | Lee makes firm judgements , as in this comment on a cave painting from the seventh century : ‘ The most famous figure at Ajanta is in Cave 1 and has been often described as the ‘ Beautiful Bodhisattva ’ . |
| 17 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 18 | It is in this arena that some of the fiercest intellectual fighting about art is taking place , though the contests range wider than the visual arts to politics and economics . |
| 19 | The other major role of the sculptor is in the service of religion , where a high degree of interplay between artist and patron is not necessarily so important , making the sculptor 's situation into one which is more like the painter 's . |
| 20 | However , the reputation of the cataloguer may be in some instances considered decisive ; the picture is by Van Gogh if it is in the book by de la faille ; a painting by Berthe Morisot needs to be approved by Bataille and Wildenstein ; an authentic work by Picasso will be found in Zervos . |
| 21 | Part of the charm of a sale is that the financial result is in itself a sort of critical judgement , reflecting even if not defining the taste and mood of the moment . |
| 22 | Long catalogue entries recall the cynical remark that the price of a painting is in ratio to the length of the bibliography in the sale catalogue . |
| 23 | The connoisseurship demonstrated in these two examples is built up from an accumulation of work by many scholars , but in the end , the cataloguer has to make a judgement , which for number 291 is in favour of Cranach 's authorship . |
| 24 | paradoxically , it is in museums that the market in art is defined , since permanent collections place limits on what is available for collectors to purchase . |
| 25 | Where personal profiles have a strength , however , is in what the critic says about personal reactions to artist and work . |
| 26 | A word of caution is in order , though , about the names of exhibiting groups . |
| 27 | A still life is in some ways an ideal picture to describe , as a firm basis can be found in a catalogue of its components . |
| 28 | Accurate copies might be made , but there is in addition a category of interpretive copy , where the artist copies those elements which most appeal to him . |
| 29 | His role in relation to the disturbances is never really clarified , nor is that of Stephens , an intelligent boy who deserts the Grange , is in touch with the gangs , and is murdered . |
| 30 | A woman 's whole life is in her kiss . ’ |