Example sentences of "be in [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are areas of contention — I ca n't really think of any at the moment — but I 'll tell you I am in extremely good books at the moment , because I cooked Christmas lunch . |
| 2 | To his surprise he had already been in here ten minutes . |
| 3 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 4 | I confess I did not remember her at all , but I have been in so many hoses , I suppose it is only natural … " |
| 5 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 6 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 7 | ‘ In England the courts of justice are relieved from the unpleasant duty of dis-barring advocates in consequence of the power of calling to the Bar and dis-barring having been in very remote times delegated to the Inns of Court . |
| 8 | And they usually occur in popular locations , while these have been in very remote areas ’ . |
| 9 | yeah , that 's what I 'll do , I 'll just take some out of that and replace , but I , I 've said , I , I 'm never gon na touch that I 'll be well unhappy if I do , cos I been in real dodgy situations with money and still resisted the temptation to take , touch that money . |
| 10 | And yet his best known pieces the Yale University Art Gallery ( 1951–53 ) ; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies , La Jolla , California ( 1959–65 ) ; the capital complex for Dhaka , Bangladesh ( 1962–83 ) ; and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth , Texas ( 1966–72 ) are in distinctly urban settings . |
| 11 | Day cruises are in more stable dinghies , sailing in company for safety . |
| 12 | We know that many people in Britain who are on poverty wages , even if they are in more regular forms of work , simply can not make ends meet . |
| 13 | Most of these schools are in very remote spots and this particular one is surrounded by mountains ( close the borders of the kingdom of Lesotho and near the spot where Donald Woods escaped over the river to Lesotho , if you saw the film Cry Freedom . |
| 14 | So both as givers and receivers of support , men and women normally are in very different positions and it is not surprising to find therefore that gender permeates all aspects of support structures . |
| 15 | Often they are in relatively expensive sites on high streets with costly business rates . |
| 16 | But does n't that mean that most of the European investment will always tend to go to the centrally placed Golden Triangle countries who occupy this privileged position rather than to the United Kingdom and other peripheral countries who are in less favoured areas ? |
| 17 | Ideally , walls on halls , corridors and staircases ( if any ) should be decorated with the same colour or treatment unless they are in quite different parts of the home and can not be seen , one from another . |
| 18 | There are in almost all animals two main axes , the antero-posterior which defines the ‘ head ’ and ‘ tail ’ ends and the dorso-ventral axis which is at right angles to it . |
| 19 | Then , on closer inspection , it emerges that there are oddities in this particular instance ( as there are in so many cases ) and the quest is on to identify the survival value of these particular idiosyncrasies . |
| 20 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 21 | People in Great Britain really have no idea how fortunate they are in so many ways — the right to free speech , and even the ‘ right ’ ( ! ) to throw an egg at the Prime Minister and only receive a bill for the dry cleaning . |
| 22 | For instance , the following two occurrences of man can be said to be in syntactically different environments : |
| 23 | ‘ We could be in here twenty-four hours , ’ she whispered . |
| 24 | On May 4 , India and Russia signed a five-year agreement on trade and economic co-operation which stipulated that payments were to be in freely convertible currencies , and agreed to find " mutually advantageous " solutions to outstanding problems including Russia 's supply of rocket technology and defence spares . |
| 25 | We 'd be in there three minutes ! |
| 26 | Royal watchers said that during the first official engagement of the day the royal couple appeared to be in fairly good spirits , although they were not seen to talk to each other or exchange glances . |
| 27 | Women tend to earn less than their male counterparts ( women 's wages were 73.5 per cent of men 's in 1979 ) , and to be in less stable areas of employment and more frequently in part-time work than men ( Bruegel , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | Its share of women in work is higher than most rich countries ' ( see chart ) , but their work tends to be in more menial jobs . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not acceptable to have people who require a home confined to long-stay institutions when they could be in more domestic settings . |
| 30 | Inevitably that will not be the case ; areas and individual schools within areas will be in quite different positions with regard to their staffing . |