Example sentences of "be [conj] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll be that in any case , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | In Darcy 's Utopia the first rule of education will be that in any school the teachers shall outnumber the pupils , and no pupil need attend who does not wish to do so . |
| 4 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 5 | We could perhaps speak of coming to ‘ know ’ being , but it may be that in this case ‘ knowledge ’ is itself a metaphor . |
| 6 | I understand the various accou er professional bodies in the accountancy industry are in fact doing that but I think the government should also do that because it is not just the probity of financial institutions we are concerned about , it is also er the auditing of other commercial concerns and it seems to be that in this case the public interest has taken second place to the government 's wish to do as little as possible , yet again the minister said in the debate that if we were to do anything further in response to a question put by my honourable friend the member for Grimsby , it would need legislation , primary legislation . |
| 7 | Another reason for Yugoslavia 's large exports to the Soviet Union is said to be that in this way the Soviet Union can obtain Western products which would not otherwise be so easily available to it . |
| 8 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 9 | In the context , this ‘ very lax attitude ’ seems to be measured against circumstances ( such as late Old English or the present day ) in which there is a uniform standard of spelling : thus , what this really means is that in Early ME there was no uniform standard , and indeed Scragg adds that these scribes had ‘ no conception of a spelling standard ’ . |
| 10 | The present situation concerning the question , under which circumstances do states arise , is that in all honesty most anthropologists would hesitate to generalize . |
| 11 | The particular point at issue is that in standard English anymore , along with other items in the any series and a number of adverbials , is in main clauses usually restricted to interrogative or negative constructions ; Labov ( 1973 ) cites the following dialogue to show the difficulty of investigating by direct questioning of a native speaker his hunch that this particular constraint was less binding in Philadelphia : |
| 12 | If there is a moral in the sequence of events as recounted above , it is that in penal reform there is always the potential for more influences to operate than those the planners have in mind . |
| 13 | The second source of difference is that in many network studies ( not all ) men have been found to have stronger community ties than women . |
| 14 | The first important difference between such research and the earlier laboratory work is that in such research the items to be remembered are generally themselves the source of arousal . |
| 15 | The main point , however , is that in successful participant observation not only is the borderline blurred between covert and overt observation ; so also is the borderline blurred between covert and overt recording . |
| 16 | The point is that in each case the woman is defining her own housework behaviour with reference to that of her mother . |
| 17 | The only thing that unites these three arrangements is that in each case a minority class rules and takes the surplus away from the producers . |
| 18 | A point to emphasize is that in each case the material was obtained from natural sources distant and sometimes remote from the places where it was put to social use . |
| 19 | One way in which the pattern of results might be described is that in each case the exemplars which accorded most closely to the subjects ’ expectations were recognized best . |
| 20 | What is certain is that in each category the hotel will be excellent of its kind : the five-star hotel a very good five-star hotel , the one-star hotel a very good one-star hotel . |
| 21 | ‘ The significant fact ’ , he writes , ‘ is that in each county Dissent tended to be associated chiefly with certain forms of local society , while it was largely absent from others ’ . |
| 22 | The result of the above is that in one case costs are so high as to detract from its use , whereas the other positively attracts business . |
| 23 | Another aspect which the two modes do appear to have in common is that in neither mode is the participant required to concentrate on the emotion itself ( another reason why Cemrel has got it wrong ) . |
| 24 | Another distinction is that in reckless manslaughter recklessness as to physical injury is needed ; in gross negligence the criterion may be merely gross negligence as to health or welfare . |
| 25 | A related reason for the failure is that in this century , as far as armed combat is concerned , the record of the laws of war has been distinctly uneven . |
| 26 | The Christian experience is that in this life , as the Bible puts it , ‘ we have no continuing city ’ , no permanence of abode . |
| 27 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 28 | He has to watch his step very carefully vis-à-vis the Russians but my guess is that in this instance they went too far . |
| 29 | The point that is being made is that in this situation none of the profit figures are a guide to the future . |
| 30 | What we have tried to show here is that in this respect linguistic behaviour conforms to the same principles as the other patterns of social behaviour that have been studied by anthropologists . |