Example sentences of "[noun prp] be in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he succeeds in stirring up tabloid backing again with ‘ the people 's champion against the gin-and-tonic brigade ’ , the theme of 1984 , then Yorkshire are in for another incendiary winter . |
| 2 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
| 3 | Stephen , a softly spoken Mike Tyson lookalike , had kicked someone into a coma , Michelle was serving an indefinite life sentence for torching her victim , Tony tried to blow up his father and Lizzie was in for armed robbery . |
| 4 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 6 | Belgion , a man who seemed to be equipped with a steam-boiler instead of a body , had criticized a remark of Eliot 's in After Strange Gods , namely that in order to study with thoroughness Hindu and Buddhist thought and the Sanskrit and Pali languages in which they were expounded , he would have been obliged to turn himself into an oriental . |