Example sentences of "be [pron] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 You are my favourite person in the whole world .
2 It had been my thirtieth birthday in November .
3 ‘ There are plenty more fishes in the sea , yes ? ’
4 Condescendingly , like an agony aunt or something , he adds : ‘ There are plenty more fish in the sea . ’
5 ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea .
6 ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea .
7 The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery .
8 Thus , not only are their own customers in focus , but the demands of the next group of customers " down the line " are part of the segment .
9 Lesser known are its beautiful gardens in Stanley Park .
10 They are her stalwart supporters in a dosed , oppressive world .
11 Had not concern been her prime motive in going at once to Mrs Browning ?
12 There was only one sound , a murmurous sighing that might have been her own blood in her ears .
13 The thrusting diversity of American capitalist railway operations , which had been its great strength in the nineteenth century , had become its greatest weakness in the twentieth , and not even Amtrak could entirely arrest that decline .
14 Christie … of course and two more Redgrave and Pinsent the Olympic rowers who this week started their build up for the next games … yes … in four years time … they 're our special guests in this week 's Friday Feature
15 Are we true apostles in his grand design , as I hope we are ?
16 Q. In view of the well publicised challenge to rebuild the economies in Eastern Europe and the EC funds and initiatives to work there , are there many openings in these countries for qualified people prepared for a bit of upheaval and a drop in salary ?
17 Nor are there many opportunities in Darlington for open-air dining or drinking .
18 Where are there chemical works in the region east of the Pennines ?
19 Are there predictable circumstances in the 1980s where people are likely to live in the home of a relative ?
20 Are there sufficient staff in the organisation prepared to promote nursing in the local community ?
21 Not only are there few people in the Highlands and Islands , but they are much fewer than in the past ( see Appendix 2 ) .
22 Are there natural pauses in the flow of language which give the viewer time to let it sink in and take shape in the mind ?
23 Respondents were therefore also asked : Are there any circumstances in which you might break a law to which you were very strongly opposed ?
24 Are there any circumstances in which the Home Secretary would feel it right to take the honourable course and resign from the office which he discharges so inadequately ?
25 But this answer begs a further question : are there any circumstances in which an all round reduction of money wages and prices will stimulate the real value of desired expenditure and real national income ?
26 Are there any circumstances in which barter is superior to the use of money ?
27 Are there any pragmatists in Iran ? ’ asked Clair George , the CIA 's deputy director of operations , putting the question rhetorically ; ‘ Does anyone play the piano in the Fiji Islands ?
28 Are there any snags in having ready-mixed concrete delivered ?
29 Are there any gaps in the plot ?
30 Are there any changes in Berlin ? ’ asked Frick , suddenly changing tack .
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