Example sentences of "[pron] [be] in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in debt to you . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm in bondage to him to the tune of three hundred guineas which he 's squeezing me for , crushing me to death like a snake its prey . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm in chains to this place . ’ |
| 4 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion , but to me Pottz looked natural , free , and potent . |
| 6 | There are many issues people have to address in the aftermath of courtship which are in contrast to the wishes and hopes experienced during it . |
| 7 | Marija na Škriljna , near Beram , painted in 1471 , display a naive vitality and a medieval peasant 's sense of the harsh realities of life which are in contrast to the more cultivated products of the Italian Renaissance painters . |
| 8 | Johnson equates Psyche 's lamp with the female ability to shine a light on aspects of life which are in darkness to the male . |
| 9 | However , Sergei Freidzon , a former Soviet planner , identifies two additional standing bodies : an Institution of Permanent Advisers ( 19 civilians , as well as the CGS and two First Deputy Defence Ministers ) and a larger Institution of Permanent Consultants ( 50 per cent military , 50 per cent civilian ) , both of which are in harness to the Council for much of the year . |
| 10 | For producing the captions I would like to offer you a fee of 150 which is in addition to any other payments for work on the Activity Book . |
| 11 | cut in the youth training budget for this year , which is in addition to the 12 per cent . |
| 12 | Further peace of mind is provided by Renault 's eight-year anti-corrosion warranty which is in addition to the one year/unlimited mileage warranty with free RAC membership . |
| 13 | In reality it is all one process not susceptible to division , which is in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance because the borrower selected that form of report in his application for an advance and in consequence of the society 's decision to use its own employee it is contractually liable for any want of due skill or care . |
| 14 | Under the ICAEW rules , firms are prohibited from telephoning or making a personal call on a prospective client ( an ’ unsolicited call ’ ) which is in relation to ‘ audit or other financial reporting work ’ . |
| 15 | Only refugees with firm arrangements for travel into another country were admitted during the border closure , which was in response to the alleged failure of the UN to disburse some US$40,000,000 promised for help with the first major influx of refugees after the August 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . |
| 16 | Irwin and Paul Ince were booked for ungentlemanly conduct as the referee added nine minutes of injury time to a tepid second-half which was in contrast to the excitement of the first . |
| 17 | Many broadcasters felt that they were expected not to say anything on the air which was in contradiction to Government policy . |
| 18 | But through his eyes Watson was enabled to describe events of the utmost absurdity in a way that makes you believe , if only while you are in thrall to each book , that they really might have happened . |
| 19 | And probably you 're in hock to the Service 's being friends ( the Service always had banking friends ) for this boatyard , too . |
| 20 | Last night you were in thrall to your emotions . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's in propinquity to other Stealers , ’ muttered Jaq . |
| 22 | I have a 15hh seven year old mare who is in foal to a TB . |
| 23 | She was in town to film Modesty Blaise for Joseph Losey . |
| 24 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 25 | Psychologically it is costly because we are in bondage to the person we will not forgive . |
| 26 | We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality . |
| 27 | But it is good to be reminded of who one is in relation to others who know a bit of one 's past ; where one ‘ is coming from ’ . |
| 28 | Yeah two obviously we , we , we we do need to , to clarify before the end of this week is , one is in relation to the paid time off a and two is the accessibility stroke suitability of the particular venue . |
| 29 | The second one is in relation to the sheet in front of you headed school meals and third area erm is the typographical errors on some resolutions to , to take you through . |
| 30 | There are arguments here , as there are in relation to mistake , that the law should impose a duty on men to consider consent , and therefore should treat them as reckless if they have failed to give any thought to the matter . |