Example sentences of "[pers pn] be in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And I am in great danger . |
| 32 | I am in Corporate Planning at HQ , as part of a department which incorporates Research , Computer Development and Communications . |
| 33 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 34 | Frank wanted David to give me a down-sweep with the baton , but as anyone can observe , when I am in full flight I 'm really running high , and this presented David with a problem as he is quite a short fellow . |
| 35 | Of course I am in full agreement with you that the market for IT products is growing and will continue to expand in the foreseeable future . |
| 36 | Rehearsing Kurt Weill 's Street Scene , I am in daily contact with a composer who was not embarrassed to entertain , nor to adapt his vision to the audience . |
| 37 | At this very moment I am in direct communication with London , Washington and Belgrade . |
| 38 | Now I am in urgent need of a tutor in such matters as the shadow star Nemesis , the irridium level and other such metaphysical absurdities . |
| 39 | You will be happy to hear that I am in excellent health and the colony agrees with me well . |
| 40 | The sun is really hot and I am in big trouble ( I have an allergy to sunlight ) . |
| 41 | But it 's very reassuring to know I am in safe hands here , ’ says Ken . |
| 42 | ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures . |
| 43 | Never for the future come near me when I am in these tumults unless I send for you . |
| 44 | er we we 've we 've agreed the table on on the base basis of erm information best information available a at the moment but but equally I would n't wish it to be seen th that I am in any way attempting to prejudge the outcome of er local plan studies , erm so the information that I 've agreed with with Mr C Cunnane is basically an attempt to clarify the tabulation fo er in |
| 45 | I am in any case no judge of beauty . |
| 46 | I am in any case rather intrigued by the project ! |
| 47 | If and in so far as there are any presumptions which assist in my conclusions ( and I instinctively dislike introducing presumptions in reaching a decision of fact as crucial as this ) , the presumption that a state of affairs continues until the evidence suggests that it no longer pertains is more to the point than the submission of Mr. Levy that the sanctity of life is so vital an interest to protect that if I am in any doubt that should take precedence . |
| 48 | ‘ As you seem to panic when I am in any danger , ’ he murmured sardonically , ‘ I will leave by the normal method . |
| 49 | I am in wonderful health , but I shall not enjoy a moment until my ship goes to sea . |
| 50 | I am in constant touch with defence industry leaders through the National Defence Industries Council and the Defence Manufacturers Association , and my Department participates in the regional seminar staged by the DTI for small and medium-sized defence industries . |
| 51 | Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story . |
| 52 | I will pass in silence over my feelings for you , for they can mean little to you at present ( though I am in some doubt as to when ‘ at present ’ is ) , though I assure you that what briefly flowered between us one morning is a blossom that will not perish , however many mornings remain . |
| 53 | I am in some pain . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I am in some pain . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Mr Beckenham , since I am in some sort indebted to you , I will , if you please , refrain from making you any answer , for I can not take it upon myself to do so without speaking to you in a manner which must sound both insolent and ungrateful ! ’ |
| 56 | I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case . |
| 57 | This is one illustration of the process which Bartlett ( 1932 ) called ‘ turning round on one 's own schemata ’ — ‘ I am in this state therefore this must be so ’ rather than the direct retrieval from a store . |
| 58 | Nevertheless , as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner , still capable of letting him down . |
| 59 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 60 | Our recruitment to English ( and it is with English that I am in this paper principally concerned ) was again untypical . |