Example sentences of "[prep] be in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since lunch-time I 'd done nothing except be in the company of women , hanging around in pubs or crawling through traffic . |
| 2 | They spent three intense weeks correcting and rechecking the entire book , and it was ready in time to be in the bookstores by the April publication date . |
| 3 | The Old Boys will hope that their captain , England international Julian Halls , who has been plagued with injuries since the summer , comes through a second XI game today without problems ; if so , he is likely to be in the squad . |
| 4 | But I am very happy to be in the squad . |
| 5 | He was rumoured to be in the squad for the game but did n't make an appearance . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't deserve to be in the squad for the championship game with Down , but it 's a long road and as you mature you realise that as the year progresses certain players will falter and others will come to prominence . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed futile to go to the police as they appeared to be in the plot . |
| 8 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 9 | You 've got to be in the chamber , preferably sitting on those red cushions . |
| 10 | It 's bound to be in the fort , and that overlooks the harbour . |
| 11 | Where operation is to be directly from a different data file directory then TableCurve has to be in the dos path . |
| 12 | Senior and middle managers tend to be in the Officer class ; junior managers and foremen in the Warrant Officer grade ; and the rest are in the ranks . |
| 13 | To perform the court 's order could require the doctor to act in a manner which he or she genuinely believed not to be in the patient 's best interests ; to fail to treat the child as ordered would amount to a contempt of court . |
| 14 | ‘ It is still not clear how the child came to be in the river , ’ a police spokesman said last night . |
| 15 | We do n't know who the man was , let alone how he came to be in the river . |
| 16 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 17 | ‘ But we can not give them cash limits because we have no idea how bad the weather is going to be in the winter or what particular type of ‘ flu might be coming along . |
| 18 | Alternatively one could simply say the seats were actually all taken , and that all three occupants happened to be in the toilet at the time . |
| 19 | THAT BLOKE WHO USED TO BE IN THE SMITHS CAUSES A BIT OF A STIR AGAIN … |
| 20 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 21 | The one who wanted to be in the film , when you were going cooee granddad . |
| 22 | She used to be in the window and her sister , and I ca n't remember her sister 's name , there was two of them , they , they used to do . |
| 23 | However , not all the evidence supports this view ; both Hill and Saville found that , while women were more numerous among the youngest groups of migrants , men were more likely to be in the majority in the older groups . |
| 24 | But women always seemed to be in the majority and the proprietor and his wife , both of whom spoke excellent English and German , could be seen at every hour of the day advising parties of determined-looking women in sensible shoes how to get to St Peter 's or the Piazza Venezia or the English church , or which were the best shops to buy presents and souvenirs to take home . |
| 25 | Each had to be in the mainstream , each had to be approached in and through a group of mainstream pupils . |
| 26 | The poll showed the biggest collapse in Tory support to be in the South East , West Midlands and the North-East . |
| 27 | The main home of the Irish polled cattle used to be in the north west . |
| 28 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 29 | Er well n not really because they had to be in the union . |
| 30 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |