Example sentences of "[prep] be in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is plenty of scope for walking or climbing in the Outer Isles and on the mainland , and the exercise is often welcome after being in the cramped quarters of a small boat . |
| 2 | A new name will appear on the Buckhurst Hill Trophy for the runners up ; after being in the top ten for some time Solihull made a quantum leap to a net total of £27,015 . |
| 3 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 4 | That would of been in the fifties |
| 5 | But 11 years of being in the international wilderness takes some overhauling and there are definite signs among their young-bloods that tours like this will soon restore pride . |
| 6 | It has been suggested by Dennis Milner — doctor of science in the metallurgy department at Birmingham University who has carried out much research into etheric force-field photography — that the different potency levels relate to the different planes of being in the following way : |
| 7 | His first two were classic cases of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 8 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 9 | Glenn , who has one daughter and two grand-daughters , said he was very impressed with the NHS but thinks his was a case of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 10 | Basler have a knack of being in the right place at the right time for acquiring military disposals , their ramp is currently full for former Canadian Armed Forces Daks , awaiting their turn for conversion . |
| 11 | They do nt even create his goals — he s just got that luck/knack of being in the right place for deflections etc . |
| 12 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Proctor could have a 50–50 chance of being in the first-team squad for Charlton Athletic on Saturday . ’ |
| 13 | Do you like the notion of being in the Royal Academy ? ’ |
| 14 | er , if the whole there in the sixth line refers back to the whole of being in the fourth line then it would be erm not the one but intellect . |
| 15 | I 'm doing no more than many other runners who will be running at London and I have no pretensions of being in the top finishers . |
| 16 | Currently he holds the position of being in the top three in Cumbria . |
| 17 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 18 | Charlie might have quite enjoyed the lesson if Trentham had n't left the impression that none of them was worthy of being in the same regiment as himself . |
| 19 | In figure 8.2 , the effect of being in the service class on the chances of attending selective secondary school is denoted b 1 , and the effect of being in the intermediate class is denoted b 2 . |
| 20 | Path b 2 represents the effect of being in the intermediate class on the chances of attending a selective secondary school . |
| 21 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 22 | When it comes to pay and conditions at work we 're nowhere near being in the same class as our European counterparts . |
| 23 | Listening to the new recording was ‘ like being in the living presence of the orchestra ’ wrote Howard Taubman , chief music critic of The New York Times . |
| 24 | Sarah says it 's like being in the condemned cell and being let out . |
| 25 | The Single European Market officially came into being in the early hours of Friday , January 1st 1993 in Dover . |
| 26 | They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place . |
| 27 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 28 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |
| 29 | And it is possible to note , as Max Weber does , a sort of transitional phase in the movement towards a fully-fledged modernity that comes into being in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 30 | I was assured by the SIB that there would be a court martial and XYZ would be charged with rape but that did not happen , he was charged only with being in the married quarter area , fined 14 days wages and demoted in rank to Trooper . |