Example sentences of "be in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most training jumps are done from a height of 12,000 feet ; any higher and you need oxygen and you 're in the realms of military freefall , which is just what we 'll be looking at in part 3 of Free fall USA . |
| 2 | By the time she 's cleared the jam , they 're in the outskirts of Bournemouth . |
| 3 | I think that 's one of the purposes Mr chairman also of the , of the educational seminar that we 're in the throes of organizing , to actually to do that . |
| 4 | I did in fact attempt to return your telephone call , but when I rang you were out , and our current panic ( we 're in the throes of mounting our summer exhibition ) prevented me from getting back to you before your letter reached me . |
| 5 | Unperturbed , he said , ‘ When you 're in the throes of passion I might be able to make you admit to it yet . |
| 6 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 7 | As I write this article ( in July ) I am in the throes of finishing my new ribber video , ‘ English and Fisherman 's Rib ’ . |
| 8 | Perhaps the nearest the British have got to a building like this has been in the pages of The Eagle . |
| 9 | And she added : ‘ There are not many girls who can say they have been in the ladies with their boyfriend . ’ |
| 10 | Not simply was he mentioned , as men may well have been in the prayers of intercession , but he was actively made present as lord of the situation . |
| 11 | The Union has been in the interests of both this country and Scotland for many years , and it remains so . |
| 12 | Although the majority of MPhils and PhDs awarded ( over 6,000 in total ) have been in the areas of science and technology there has been a growing number of registrations and conferments in the social sciences . |
| 13 | There was in the polytechnics and colleges , as there had also been in the colleges of advanced technology , some general discussion about the validity of sandwich courses as such , given the possibility that they might be a means of perpetuating outdated practices . |
| 14 | The sharing of the collector 's salary was really what appears to have been in the thoughts of Craigbarnet and his friends , for Dougalston too returned to this point in his letter to Montrose 's commissioner , telling him that Craigbarnet 's friends had given him to understand that they would support Kirkton 's re-election , ‘ with the same sellary that he now has if he would give Craigbarnett fifteen or twentie pound sterling yearly out of it ’ . |
| 15 | And er as I 've said before , I have n't seen a a barrel of oil burning and the heat and smoke that comes off that you consider the amount of oil that would have been in the separators on the platform at the time , I think it would have still have caused an awful lot of heat and an awful lot of smoke and fire , and er just shutting off the oil coming back to the platform maybe would n't have helped that much . |
| 16 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 17 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 18 | Nimslo will also give no firm figures for sales in the US where the system has been in the shops for a year . |
| 19 | So relaxed now ; yet only a short while ago he had been in the depths of despair . |
| 20 | As last season illustrated , Neath were nowhere near as good as their Champion status indicated , nowhere near as good as they had been in the seasons of extraordinary success that preceded the advent of the leagues . |
| 21 | The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline . |
| 22 | British air travel before the war had largely been in the hands of two companies , British Airways for European services and Imperial Airways for services further afield . |
| 23 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 24 | It had earlier been in the hands of the Beard family for around a century . |
| 25 | For some time financial control had been in the hands of a receiver after the Leeds City company was wound up . |
| 26 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 27 | The troubled 1986 ICL start-up housing the Distributed Array Processing , DAP , technology — built on the single instruction multiple data technique of massively parallel processing — has been in the hands of the receiver , Price Waterhouse , since June 16 . |
| 28 | The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components . |
| 29 | The unique collection , assembled over the past twenty-five years by Lavalin 's ex-chief Bernard Lamarre and corporate curator Leo Rosshandler , has been in the hands of an international consortium of eight creditor banks since Lavalin 's failure last year . |
| 30 | It has been in the hands of the Maitland family for more than 400 years since its creation by John Maitland , Chancellor of Scotland , and later enlargement by the Duke of Lauderdale . |