Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [be] in the " in BNC.

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1 BLENDING It is in the blending room that the mature Scotch Whiskies are combined with each other , finely balancing the characteristics and ages of the individual grain whiskies and malt whiskies .
2 the he gets , if he 's not driving he 's in the van , you know
3 Their own anger with their mother for not being there is then attributed to her , and their fear results from believing she is in the rage that they themselves are in .
4 He 's trying to enlist my sympathy by pretending he 's in the grip of some third thing .
5 Waiting he was in the gold and brown of the Palast , himself immaculate , pink , flashing his smile as he complimented Erika on her appearance and , in her leather coat and with her fur hat at a rakish angle , and her face glowing with health , Erika deserved the compliment .
6 But , on appeal the same day , Lord Justice Templeman , speaking for the court , held that ‘ the Judge erred because he was influenced by the views of the parents , instead of deciding what was in the best interests of the child ’ .
7 I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life .
8 The example is chosen simply to demonstrate how sadly lacking we are in the very facilities which historians require most — mechanisms of exchanging data between different processing environments .
9 So considered as an action , Pooh 's observation will succeed if this belief of his is true : that is , if tasting what 's in the pot will in fact make Pooh believe it 's honey if it is honey , and believe it 's not if it 's not .
10 She had no idea Simon had sent off her photo for the slimming contest until a letter arrived saying she was in the final .
11 No I would n't go as far as that anyway but I 'm saying they 're in the wrong it 's not you in the wrong , they 're in
12 The Press Complaints Authority has backed the press in its recent coverage of Heritage Minister David Mellor 's private life , saying it is in the public interest .
13 But she had n't finished examining what was in the attics .
14 He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man 's own highest interest .
15 Whatever the original guidelines given them , goes the argument , the agents get drawn into doing what is in the best interest of those they are regulating — they are , wittingly or unwittingly , captured by the people they are supposed to be policing ( see , for example , Stigler , 1971 ) .
16 Our eyes are not cameras , our ears are not tape-recorders , faithfully but passively recording what is in the outside world .
17 The first time I remember seeing her was in The Roebuck .
18 I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance .
19 ‘ You make my wife feel much happier , knowing you 're in the house .
20 Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse .
21 It is of the essence of that jurisdiction that the court has the power and the responsibility in appropriate cases to override the views of both the child and the parent in determining what is in the child 's best interests .
22 This data can quickly be transferred from one information system to another and can be combined and transformed in ways which might not otherwise be practicable ; furthermore , data held on computers is invisible and not directly intelligible so that people have more difficulty in knowing what is in the records or what is happening to them .
23 Sources say Apple 's project to move System 8 to the PowerPC , taking what was in the ToolBox and rewriting in C , is not going well .
24 and I am making I 'm in the process at the moment of making application to be accepted by them .
25 So if you want to get me fined for talking you 're in the wrong place . ’
26 he 's carrying he is in the post at the moment
27 In addition , a continuation task will be used as a further method of assessing what is in the mind of the reader after reading a particular text .
28 So when you 're looking at a file on the screen , what you 're looking at is the file as it is in the , in the memory of the computer , and if you change your spreadsheet , then all you 're doing is changing what 's in the memory .
29 I keep thinking she 's in the dark , I do n't know why that should be .
30 Lachlan , I 'm thinking you were in the right of it ; there 's no proof , but from the description , this Iain Og is most likely John Campbell of Cawdor , Argyll 's lad . ’
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