Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] is in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It must often seem a ‘ second best ’ situation , to be resisted as long as possible , although for some vulnerable people it comes as a relief and a right , after years of effort , to feel someone else is in charge .
2 This is clear in the case of the thought that someone else is in pain .
3 As Ludwig Wittgenstein puts it : ‘ In order to doubt whether someone else is in pain he needs , not pain , but the concept ‘ pain' .
4 Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’
5 Similarly , if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ Someone else is in pain ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same by ‘ pain ’ when I say someone else is in pain as I mean when I say ‘ I 'm in pain ’ . ’
6 It is useful to recall Wittgenstein in this connection : ‘ It is a help here to remember that it is a primitive reaction to tend , to treat , the part that hurts when someone else is in pain ; and not merely when oneself is ’ ( Z 540 ) .
7 Everything else is in order , just as it is .
8 I 'm off for cos I have got no work experience cos and she could n't get me work experience in June and now everybody else is in work experience I get the week off .
9 One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed .
10 She does n't realize that everyone else is in bed asleep .
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