Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the ways in which we ensure that , so far as possible , people are better off in work than out of work . |
| 2 | Bruno Walter was there and afterwards I was offered the post of first kapellmeister ; but I had to say , frankly I am better off in Aachen . |
| 3 | Belle Carr , Derwent Street , Chopwell , Tyne and Wear : I had not been long back in England after living in Malaya . |
| 4 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
| 5 | They are already down in Cardiff but ASLEF apparently is objecting to the very small cabs which have been created for the driver at one end . |
| 6 | Schmeichel added : ‘ We are quite happy that unlike last year we are not out in front . |
| 7 | they 're somewhere down in Gillingham down in |
| 8 | He says no , he says we 've thought about it , I says well you really ought to have it I says if you 're dial dialling a lot of erm , cos they dial a lot of these insurance companies and er mortgage lenders , the head offices , they 're always out in Ottingham , I said the Mercury pin number only cost you seven pound fifty a year , I says you think you can save that in a week so er ha so erm he was on about it , he says who 's the cheapest for that ? |
| 9 | In fact , I had n't lived south of the river for nearly five years and that had been further over in Southwark until a small matter of an exploding terrace house had persuaded me to go flat-hunting . |
| 10 | A spokesman for XL Recordings , whose acts include SL2 and the Prodigy , says : ‘ The county 's bands instigated the hard-core dance movement and are still out in front . ’ |
| 11 | Overseas investors are also up in arms . |
| 12 | We heard the news over the radio at lunch break and I tell you , Clem , my lads are really up in arms . |
| 13 | Some of the restored windows are now back in place . |
| 14 | Specific forms for community care referrals , assessment and care planning are now out in draft and will be amended in the light of comments and ‘ trial runs ’ . |
| 15 | Those who throw sticks and stones which break bones can be better off in law than those who project hurtful words which leave no permanent mark . |
| 16 | In the age of the computer , they would be better off in Croydon or Nottingham . |
| 17 | There is widespread agreement that there are many mentally disturbed people in prison who would be better off in hospital . |
| 18 | Maybe I 'd be better off in jail . |
| 19 | I would be better off in Canada , free of all these tethers . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Have you ever read any of the old Earth literature , postulating what it would be like out in space and in the future . |
| 21 | Child Benefit was to stay and a new benefit , Family Credit , was to be introduced for low-income families in work so that people could no longer be worse off in work than on the dole . |
| 22 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 23 | We know that we are far better off in Europe — indeed , we are well off in Europe — and far better off in Europe than out . |
| 24 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 25 | Nevertheless Turkey and Persia were swiftly back in disagreement . |
| 26 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 27 | But Wimbledon were soon back in business four minutes after the break . |
| 28 | He would reach the Via Roma soon with its elegant shops many of which were already back in business after the War . |
| 29 | The lights were still on in Victor 's when Chantal screeched her motorcycle to a standstill outside . |
| 30 | They were also out in force on the streets when thousands of anti-Nazi demonstrators — Turks and Germans — gathered in Solingen . |