Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compeyson is the man who pretended to be in love with her . ’ |
| 2 | Except by special permission candidates shall not bring written , printed or similar material to their examination places , and any candidate found to be in possession of such unauthorised material shall be reported to the Secretary of the University in the first instance . |
| 3 | fines of up to 10 per cent of UK turnover for firms found to be in breach of the prohibitions . |
| 4 | Amongst the one-third of the urban population of London and York whom Booth and Rowntree found to be in poverty at the end of the nineteenth century , the chief concern of the married women was to provide food , clothing and shelter for themselves and their children . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 6 | We began by asking her how she came to be in broadcasting . |
| 7 | A few boys asked her out but never the right ones , never the ones she wanted to ask her , and Sally began to wonder how two people ever came to be in love with one another at the same time . |
| 8 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 9 | He said : ‘ When police officers attended the scene it became apparent that the media were also in attendance — how they came to be in attendance is not known and not through any action on our part . |
| 10 | If , thanks to you , my daughter comes to any harm , I 'll make sure the world knows every detail of how and why she came to be in danger . ’ |
| 11 | And now the quarrel was under its own impetus , and once again a trial seemed to be in progress , with both of them as accusers , but both figuring also as investigators of the lowest description , wretched hirelings , turning over the stones to find where the filth lay buried . |
| 12 | When he first heard her voice she seemed to be in agony , and imagining she was ill , he had started impulsively forward again ; then with a deep sense of shock he had sensed the awful intimacy of the strangled cries . |
| 13 | However , even though the two bodies seemed to be in competition , the edge was held by the EEC . |
| 14 | It was true that the members of the court sometimes seemed to be in competition in their attempts to gratify Artai 's vanity . |
| 15 | At the time , Mr Reynolds himself had looked out of curiosity and everything seemed to be in order . |
| 16 | All seemed to be in order , but next morning , after having trouble with one of the receivers , he went up again to make sure he had not inadvertently disturbed anything . |
| 17 | Before Morrissette , Robbe-Grillet had appeared to accept the chosiste label attached to him by Barthes on account of the supposedly flat and neutral representation of external reality and the minute descriptions of objects in his early novels , which seemed to be in accordance with the phenomenological position outlined in Pour un nouveau roman . |
| 18 | On this evening , Nannie , like everyone else in the house , seemed to be in trouble . |
| 19 | It was a time when commonsense and reality seemed to be in suspension . |
| 20 | Darwinism never received a welcome in France , where in place of Darwin 's historical and probabilistic method the way forward seemed to be in laboratory physiology . |
| 21 | She laid great stress on these little courtesies , the formal acts of politeness that women in their emancipated state seemed to be in danger of losing . |
| 22 | Crondall seemed to be in need of a Pied Piper to answer the problem of an increasing rat population in a rubbish dump near the recreation ground . |
| 23 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
| 24 | When he was well , he always seemed to be in demand and was proud to have worked on the Salisbury Cathedral restoration in the 1860 s , carried out under the direction of the great Victorian architect , Sir Gilbert Scott . |
| 25 | The entire camp seemed to be in movement . |
| 26 | Claire 's eight-week-old baby , Jamie , was apparently healthy but cried a lot of the time , and seemed to be in pain . |
| 27 | Now , he seemed to be in pain , and the lines on his cheeks were almost cracks . |
| 28 | ‘ It was of somebody who seemed to be in distress , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Their main problem seemed to be in midfield . |
| 30 | Nobody seemed to be in control … |