Example sentences of "of [pron] be in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several hundred members in ‘ LHC ’ , many of whom are in senior positions in significant companies , and it might provide some useful contacts for you too , but there are inevitably the questions of time , travel and costs and so on . |
| 2 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 3 | The newly formed independent human rights organization Organisation Marocaine des Droits de L'Homme ( OMDH ) ( see p. 36244 ) claimed on July 26 , 1989 , that there remained a total of 226 political prisoners in Morocco , 12 of whom had been condemned to death and 33 of whom were in indefinite solitary confinement . |
| 4 | It was interesting to note , in view of CATE pressures to involve teacher-tutors , that there were only six bought-in staff , five of whom were in one institution . |
| 5 | Official figures put the casualties at seven dead and 22 wounded , but independent sources estimated that 16 demonstrators and two policemen had been killed and 350 demonstrators injured , 66 of whom were in critical condition . |
| 6 | By the close of the fourteenth century English Kings had at their disposal a small but effective group of civil servants , most of whom were in clerical orders . |
| 7 | And then there were eight Hearthwares , seven of whom were in full armour . |
| 8 | Daumier is famous for his satirical lithographs ; his equally good drawings and watercolours are less known as so many of them are in private collections . |
| 9 | With regard to these countries , the study finds that it is important that they do not attempt to keep their existing inter-industry specialisation as many of them are in low value added and labour-intensive sectors , and therefore face strong competition from the LDCs . |
| 10 | Five of them are in that happy position by chance ; one , just one , is there by deliberate design , carefully phased and executed over months . |
| 11 | Many of them are in Jamaican Creole , mixed to varying degrees with English . |
| 12 | Most of them are in legal trouble . |
| 13 | The operating theatres at RAF Wroughton were built last year … but only three of them are in regular use . |
| 14 | Many of them are in old , dilapidated buildings , and it is likely that some authorities would take the opportunity to reduce surplus places by closing them . |
| 15 | But many of them are in dire need of repair . |
| 16 | It may be standard practice in France for one state enterprise to give to another large sums of money when one of them is in financial trouble ; but it is doubtful whether private undertakings would have considered this particular transaction as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 17 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 18 | Number three , do you think any of them is in bad taste , if so what are your reasons ? |
| 19 | Christina was interested too , and the two of them were in good spirits when Stephen drove into the dry , scrubby car park in front of the Crane Beach Hotel , which from that aspect seemed an unremarkable low-level with thirties undertones to the architecture . |
| 20 | All of them were in that sense authoritarians . |
| 21 | More importantly , however , David Agnew , the collector of Wigtown , McCulloch of Torhouse , the controller of customs , Gordon of Drumbeg , the surveyor , and a tide waiter named McKeen , were also councillors , and all of them were in some danger of losing their posts for incompetence if nothing worse . |
| 22 | Sorry , I thought you said that each of them was in all the rest of them and each of them was coloured by the host . |
| 23 | Residents appreciated the low traffic volume and near absence of through-traffic and a majority of them was in complete agreement over the restrictions on cars . |
| 24 | Neither of them was in religious orders and , whether or not either of them aspired to sainthood , both clearly felt that sharing their " confessions " was an important social act . |
| 25 | That was the whole object of my being in this place . |
| 26 | The mill , which consists of a single long block , is joined to a gabled mill house , both of which are in good condition . |
| 27 | Hughes ( 1981 ) cites recent cases , some of which are in rural areas such as the West Country , in which the homeless tenants from winter-lets have not always been rehoused . |
| 28 | Equally important are the increasing closures of small independent petrol stations , many of which are in rural areas , which can mean higher petrol prices and less petrol availability . |
| 29 | These function words are words such as auxiliary verbs , prepositions , conjunctions , etc. , all of which are in certain circumstances pronounced in their strong forms but which are more frequently pronounced in their weak forms . |
| 30 | Sir : Clive Fewins 's article ( Weekend , 7 October ) rightly praised the excellent work of the Redundant Churches Fund , but it should also serve as a reminder that there is still no Redundant Chapels Fund to conserve some of the best examples of Non-Conformist buildings , many of which are in imminent danger of demolition or drastic alteration . |