Example sentences of "[adj] be in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 2 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 3 | This were in a school playground . |
| 4 | Adeniyi said that in a survey of 93 scientists and engineers from Nigeria who attended overseas courses on remote sensing , only 22 were in a position to apply the knowledge that they had obtained . |
| 5 | Julia Garvey 's body was found in one bedroom of the family home at Teddington near Cheltenham … the two children Ben aged 4 and Hannah aged 2 were in a bedroom next door . |
| 6 | This is in a way a companion volume , in its emphasis on the geographers , to his much earlier book , Lectures on the Geography of Greece , based on lectures given in Oxford in 1872 ( 1873 ) . |
| 7 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 8 | It 's over twelve hundred bytes and this is in a maths |
| 9 | I know how keen many of our listeners are on craft shows and there 's a big 'un at Nottingham University at the Jessie Boot Conference Centre , Nottingham University on Friday and Saturday , November the twenty six and twenty seventh so this is in a couple of weeks time and giving you n advance notice . |
| 10 | While this is in a sense business between yourselves and your legal advisors , I wonder whether you have thought more about it ? |
| 11 | This is in a sense unavoidable , but inevitably the flexibility that must be allowed can lead to varying opinions . |
| 12 | This is in a sense the most fundamental statistical representation , although it is not the most convenient for the development of models of turbulent structure based on experimental observation . |
| 13 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 14 | If this is in a country other than the Netherlands and Belgium then the burden borne by their consumers is not reflected in their gross contributions . |
| 15 | But this is in a school where a high proportion of the children know people and have relatives who have been ( or currently are ) in prison . |
| 16 | And this is in a nutshell what the Chemical Products business and effect chemicals are all about . ’ |
| 17 | However , although this is in a manner so , ‘ rationality ’ in a more usual sense refers to the particular sort of rationality distinctive of human beings , by which they participate in their own way in the ultimate rationality of the universe . ) |
| 18 | is that a person who acts as a representative of another is in a conflict of interest situation if , either at the time when he accepts appointment or subsequently while he acts as a representative , there is a material interest of his own or of a third person for whom he also acts , and the pursuit or protection of that interest would create a substantial risk that he may not act in the best way to pursue or protect the interest of the person he represents . |
| 19 | One is at the end of Gaudier-Brzeska ( 1916 ) ; another is in a Criterion article of 1937 , ‘ D'Artagnan Twenty Years After ’ ; in that year appeared Polite Essays , which includes Pound 's review of Binyon 's translation of the Inferno ( originally in The Criterion for April 1934 ) ; there are two tributes to Binyon in Guide to Kulchur ( 1938 ) ; in 1948 at St Elizabeth 's Pound was still pressing Binyon on the attention of Charles Olson ; and as late as 1958 he took the opportunity of Pavannes and Divagations to get back into print his appreciative note on The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 20 | Fortunately this was in a pilot survey and the warning was heeded in the survey proper . |
| 21 | This was in a sense the first of the family of rare or inert gases to be discovered ; but in chemistry the discovery of an element requires also its isolation , and this did not happen until 1895 , when William Ramsay was in the process of finding the whole group of these gases . |
| 22 | This was in a sense strange , since not only was their art far removed from true Cubism from a purely visual point of view , but their aims , though not as aggressively stated as those of the Futurists , were equally at variance with those of the French painters . |
| 23 | This was in a state of semi-continuous eruption , with minor explosions taking place every five or ten minutes , showering fragments of pumice 200 metres into the air , and occasionally revealing the cherry-red glow of liquid lava in the crater , while all the while a great banner of steam rose 3,000 metres into the air . |
| 24 | This was in a letter to the committee which was read out at her hearing and passed round . |
| 25 | However , I am looking forward to erm to the new Kuwait , to the Kuwait after liberation , because there were discussion about the erm participation of erm Kuwaiti woman within the political life of Kuwait and erm this was in a conference in October , as I recall , and the Prime Minister , the political leadership of Kuwait , has stated that erm after the liberation of Kuwait erm women will have erm far more erm participation within the political erm life of Kuwait . |
| 26 | The last time he had felt like this was in a house in Florence , when he and Julius had been about to visit Cosimo de' Medici and extract a commission to represent the Medici in Trebizond . |
| 27 | This was in a signal sent to 15th Army Group and Eighth Army at 1234 hrs the following day , 15 May [ KP 116 ] , correcting an error in the reference in para 2 of Robertson 's signal to a directive issued in respect of arrestable categories0 Such a directive , it was pointed out , had not " yet been issued " . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Maybe this was in a fit of pique when the relationship was down rather than up . |
| 29 | Significantly , this was in a review mostly concerned to deplore Eliot 's influence on poetic style . |
| 30 | This was in a period when I was based at Llandudno and every available minute of spare time was spent in climbing and scrambling among those delightful hills . |