Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting , however , that the offences listed are either in deliberate defiance of God 's holy law , or offences against people — not property . |
| 2 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 3 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 4 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 5 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 6 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 7 | He hated the music they were playing Highland stuff , mostly — he hated being here in this dull , wet town , with these dull people listening to their dull music at their dull wedding . |
| 8 | It is the longest time the that the royal couple will have been together in public since the intense speculation about their marriage during the summer . |
| 9 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 10 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 11 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 12 | Aye you 'd have been there in thirty nine . |
| 13 | Saying that ‘ the Pilgrim Fathers will always hold a unique place among the venerated saints of mankind ’ may be going too far , but their plain approach to life , the simple statement of belief they made on the voyage in the Mayflower Compact , and their peaceful settlements and good relations with the Indians among whom they settled were certainly in sharp contrast to what happened in most colonies . |
| 14 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 15 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 16 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 17 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 18 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 19 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 20 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 21 | It seems as if there 's been more in recent months . |