Example sentences of "[be] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An official survey of Gloucestershire 's roads shows that they 're in their worst state for fifteen years . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're in her good books , ’ said Mrs Khalid , ‘ that 's the main thing . |
| 3 | but they have found that in a lot of cases that the bones starts growing so therefore , when you 're in your late teens , twenties , maturing your bottom jaw is growing out from the rest of your jaw bone . |
| 4 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 5 | Keep a look out when you 're in your local supermarket in the future , there is a fair chance the Traditional Free Range bird you see there , will have been grown on the Open Country system of management . |
| 6 | But good lord , you 're in your fourth month . |
| 7 | ‘ If you remember I 'm not particularly fond of them , ’ he murmured , ‘ especially when they 're in my own home ; I prefer to keep well away . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 're in our sixth year of drought , ’ said farmer Joe van Gundy . |
| 9 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
| 10 | So here I am in my usual pew , between |
| 11 | I am in my thirteenth summer and dream of a romantic match , of a handsome suitor — not a boy ! ’ |
| 12 | I am in my third year now studying history of art . |
| 13 | ‘ But I am in my twelfth summer , ’ she said aloud then , stifling a sob . |
| 14 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 15 | She was his servant , whatever she had been in her previous life , and she was ten or more years younger than himself , and what a battered old soldier he was , to be hungering after such a fresh young girl . |
| 16 | Sister Imelda , the only nun in the convent who was good with the needle , had been in her sick bed so a very poor job had been done on taking up the hem . |
| 17 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 18 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 19 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 20 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 21 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 22 | David and Julia and the other court personnel had been in their appointed seats for an hour and a half before the proceedings began . |
| 23 | Tony and Jean have been in their present home for two years . |
| 24 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |
| 25 | Although there was no hope that her own son and his intimates would forgo their day 's sport , there were those less inclined for the hunt than they had been in their younger days . |
| 26 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 27 | You think here it is Russia in winter , but I have been in my frozen villages ; you have no idea . |
| 28 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |
| 29 | ‘ Brother Tutilo has not been in my especial care until this journey , ’ he said carefully , ‘ but I have always found him truly devoted to our house of Ramsey . |
| 30 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |