Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as it turned out , the great majority of the 300,000 German troops reported by Schmidt-Richberg as approaching Austria on 13 May were cut off from reaching the frontier by Tito 's forces , or were already in the process of surrendering inside Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | She can still tell the police you were in that shooting and once they get you , you can forget you ever had any friends or were ever in the Army . |
| 3 | Enraged that he should take it on himself to tell her the state of her own business , and bristling at the manner in which he spoke of her precious son , Esther said sharply , ‘ Whatever is or is not in the coffers is nothing whatsoever to do with you ! |
| 4 | Instead of getting worked up about who is or is n't in the Queen 's Honours List why not demand the scrapping of a far more cynical honours system University Honorary Degrees . |
| 5 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 6 | In the present Chapter I have written of movements in theory in the present tense , whereas what is ideally required is something grammatically subtler — perhaps there are languages where it exists — like a special tense in which the present extends back to include actions or events that are already in the recent past . |
| 7 | People that go to Comdex do n't rate Unix , the twice-yearly technology poll conducted by Byte magazine among attendees seems to suggest — and IBM Corp still has an uphill fight to win over the hearts and minds that are presently in the Microsoft Corp camp . |
| 8 | All IBM Corp needs to do to return to profit is get rid of excess staff and keep exploiting customers that are n't in the know by selling mainframes and related software at exorbitantly high margins . |
| 9 | The remedy picture may include a lot of other symptoms that are not in the case itself . |
| 10 | He is playing Concertos that are not in the popular mainstream , and in the case of the Viola Concerto , not on his first instrument . |
| 11 | However , once divisions are given some independence they may make decisions that are not in the best interests of the group as a whole . |
| 12 | I know how to make it do all kinds of things — including a few that are not in the manufacturer 's manual — but I have not the first idea as to how it actually works . |
| 13 | A potential drawback of consecutive spill is that , while this method of handling synonyms can be effective in some circumstances to retrieve records that are held in a file , it is not a good method of dealing with records that are not in the file . |
| 14 | The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time . |
| 15 | One of the most common reasons why NLP systems fail is due to the use of words that are not in the lexicon . |
| 16 | It is now thought that the Transfer Regulations will apply to undertakings or parts of undertakings that are not in the nature of commercial ventures . |
| 17 | You get a very good feel for , for world trade and the problems that are currently in the news at the moment with GATT , it 's a book entitled Current Issues in Agricultural Economics , right , Current Issues in Ag Econ it 's edited by er , the one and only Tony Rayner and er , David Coleman , so Rayner and Coleman are the editors , |
| 18 | However , it is true that government policies ( or lack of policies in some areas ) have contributed significantly to our problems and some of the changes that are now in the pipeline will almost certainly make matters worse . |
| 19 | So by mid-Silurian times the plates that are now in the northern hemisphere were again stable and low in relief . |
| 20 | To be consistent with holism the constructivist has to say that individual ‘ beliefs ’ — mental states that are only in the running for truth — do not correspond to anything in the mind . |
| 21 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
| 22 | If the consignor wanted to ensure that no person other than the consignee or the lawful holder of the bill could claim delivery , he could stipulate that delivery required production of all the copies or parts of the set that were not in the master 's possession . |
| 23 | But I will tell you the details that were not in the report . |
| 24 | There were two things that were not in the letter which Sean wanted . |
| 25 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward samples alternatives that were n't in the manifestos |
| 26 | Blind Io pushed his stack of chips across the table , glowered through such of his eyes that were currently in the room , and strode out . |
| 27 | He had arrived too late for things that were still in the air but vanished , the whole ferment and brightness and journeyings and youth of the 1960s , the blissful dawn of what he and his contemporaries saw as a pretty blank day . |
| 28 | Mr Major said the community charge , as he preferred to call it , had been replaced with a new property-based system which contained improvements that were never in the old rating system . |
| 29 | He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest . |
| 30 | Do not be tempted to use the small charge that is already in the battery , as this will run down in seconds . |