Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes the major owners of the means of production , company directors , top managers , higher professionals and senior civil servants , many of whom are large shareholders in private industry . |
| 2 | A ring is an arrangement whereby several dealers all of whom are interested I in a given item agree not to compete in outbidding each other at the public auction but instead to allow one of their number to buy it as cheaply as possible . |
| 3 | And er as probably er you gathered Stan and I are both ex-policemen in relation to erm to er our our background and er I think I said yesterday to the er some of the guys as well , one of the things that lorry drivers and policemen do have very much in common is that we have pr probably one the shortest erm pension lives of most professions . |
| 4 | My name is Hugh Corbett , I am senior clerk in the King 's Chancery and his special emissary . |
| 5 | I am this prisoner in my own house , you see . |
| 6 | I am white , I 'm middle class in terms of my background and to that extent have had a certain degree of privilege and I 'm also in some situations , easy enough to attack . |
| 7 | Oh , well yes , I do , and I 'm sure Susy in fact I 've heard Susy doing it and I do n't know about Joanna . |
| 8 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 9 | But I was nine years in er digs . |
| 10 | I was five years in India with him . |
| 11 | I was five years in the pits . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I was five months in Brazil and I thought then , if I want to get further into South America I need Spanish . |
| 13 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 14 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 16 | Finally , the problem-orientated approach encourages clarity of thinking and planning which are essential ingredients in good patient care . |
| 17 | Parents and children are acutely vulnerable under circumstances of compulsion and emergency which are regular occurrences in residential admissions . |
| 18 | One can distinguish between cyclical changes , which reflect the buoyancy or depression of the economy , and structural changes , which are longer-term shifts in the pattern of employment . |
| 19 | In the autumn this fungus develops its winter spores , which are dark brown in colour , round , and 25–30 microns in diameter . |
| 20 | The first study of risks to patients reported 400 patients ‘ operated ’ on by an HIV-infected urologist. 80% of procedures were endoscopies , which are low risk in terms of percutaneous injury for the surgeon and therefore also presumably for the patient . |
| 21 | The Society purchased 114 Chancery Lane in April ( adjacent to the Law Society 's Hall ) and Victoria Court , Leamington Spa in September , both of which are integral elements in the Society 's property strategy . |
| 22 | Our research programme has led to the development of high-performance electrodes and poison resistant catalysts , both of which are critical factors in the development of a practical system . |
| 23 | Relations are transformable into other models , such as hierarchies or networks , which are other ways in which database management systems can view data structures . |
| 24 | But remarkably no mention is made of welfare agencies , public enterprises or planning bodies , all of which are major additions in the extended welfare state . |
| 25 | This question is particularly important for institutions which are investing time in making their own video recordings . |
| 26 | However , as we move out of the inner city the trend to backing is reversed , and the system swings back again to front realizations J. Milroy , 1982b ) : it converges on front-vowel realizations to the extent that all items ( except those with following /r/ ) including items such as grass , path ( which are back-vowel items in both RP and inner-city vernacular ) have the front vowel . |
| 27 | The grubs and beetles try to hide themselves in secret places where none shall see them , but nevertheless there are many which are swallowed whole in one swift plunge and gobble . |
| 28 | We could learn from the American experience of using the National Guard not only to help with civil disasters but also with drug enforcement , which are both areas in which we can not have too much help , provided that it is properly directed and properly trained . |
| 29 | While most of the sectors which are expanding employment in the economy are services , there is also a group of new and growing manufacturing industries . |
| 30 | I can think of dozens of Corbetts which are finer mountains in every way than many of their higher counterparts in the Munro bracket . |