Example sentences of "be [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When male students are numerically in a minority , do they form a ‘ minority group ’ ? |
| 2 | Perhaps we think our friends see us as calm and capable while we know that we are secretly in a state of panic . |
| 3 | ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’ |
| 4 | What better way to prove that you have been somewhere in a consumer culture , than to buy something made locally whilst you are there . |
| 5 | The Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 ( ‘ the Executive Scheme ’ ) provides for share options to be granted to those senior employees who are most in a position to affect the fortunes of the Company . |
| 6 | ‘ I am constantly in a state of surprise that I have survived this long as an actor . |
| 7 | ‘ God and the King ’ , he proclaimed , ‘ are so in a league … as one can not be enemy to the one , but that he must be to the other . |
| 8 | Bankers are generally in a position to make specific conditions for providing finance and so have little need for the audit , abbreviated accounts filed 10 months after the year end are of little value to trade suppliers and customers , and the Revenue 's reliance on audited accounts is ‘ largely illusory ’ , the Institute says . |
| 9 | We are already in a position to give reasons for many of the cases of uneven distribution , where an adjective is grammatical in one of the two positions but not in the other , beyond simply making some such observation as " the following adjectives are unacceptable in predicative position " . |
| 10 | We need to set an example as well , at this present time M S F are already in a position where they 're training their activists in other languages . |
| 11 | In ( 3 ) , SPAR is able to identify both some biscuits and a bowl on the floor , allowing both definite noun phrases to be fully resolved ; but it can not find any biscuits that are already in a bowl . |
| 12 | They indicate the relationship of utterances in the mind or in the world and are thus in a way contextual . |
| 13 | The travellers have now left their sites in Milton Keynes … but police are keeping track of their movements in case they 're soon in a popsition to make an arrest . |
| 14 | But Mao 's not saying that , Mao 's , Mao 's saying they 're already in a revolution and we 're , we should |
| 15 | I mean , you 're just in a cell , you 're locked up , it makes you think , ‘ Right , that was my mistake , but next time I 'm going to get further , I 'm going to get the better of them . |
| 16 | While we 're bailing out our basements and replanting the trees in the garden after the floods , the nuts at the National Rivers Board tell us we 're still in a drought . |
| 17 | Chairman David Campbell said : ‘ We 're still in a state of shock over this development . |
| 18 | Chairman David Campbell said : ‘ We 're still in a state of shock over this development . |
| 19 | Because it 's the most accurate , it 's the smoothest and you 're always in a position to respond should you want more or less steering . |
| 20 | Like a modern coniferous forest , you 're always in a centre of a star of diagonals . |
| 21 | Cos when they place these they 're always in a zone of danger , double white lines . |
| 22 | Yeah , we 're always in a hurry . |
| 23 | You 're hardly in a position to preach the virtues — why have n't you married ? ’ |
| 24 | Erm I wo n't dwell on York city centre and its historic core because you 're all clearly aware of that , but it its setting was accepted at the greenbelt enquiry as being sufficiently important to warrant protection wider than just its physical , existing physical limits , erm the special protection was accorded also to the the special character rather was accorded also to the surrounding countryside , much of which is very attractive , and many of the typical Yorkshire small villages and hamlets that surround the area as well , er and we 're clearly in a position in Greater York which is different from the position that arises in many other counties and many other districts within this county , we 're in a position of grave shortage of suitable , developable land , we 're in a position of high quality er character , and landscape , we 're in a position where York , in particular , has extremely good transportation links , to the Leeds Bradford conurbation , where we discuss at length over the last two days there are policies for urban regeneration , subject to regional planning guidance in that area erm and we 're in a position where quite clearly York is under pressure , a great deal of pressure from migrants , er because it 's a it 's an attractive location to live . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're both in a dilemma then , are n't we ? ’ |
| 26 | It could be argued that people in our region have actually lost confidence in their water , they 've suffered from cryptospyridia , blue-green algae , we 're now in a drought period , how would you reassure the public ? |
| 27 | Okay so we are , w w we 're now in a position of , certainly by nineteen forty nine we 're , we 're on the verge of power , we want l we , land reform is not taking place any more , there are still some areas in the north it has n't taken place out in the far north west it has n't taken place , so we , we , we are going to need a new land reform document based on all the experience we 've got which will carry us through and , and it 's really that land reform document , document that we are going to implement for the whole of China , and it 's going to be that document which really is going to abolish feudalism and create some sort of equality . |
| 28 | We 're actually in a part of Barley Hall now accidentally except that this part has been so Georgianized that we have n't incorporated into the medieval house it 's used as an office . |
| 29 | Rather than being a finished product , we are always in a state of dynamic change : becoming more or less ‘ human ’ , or ‘ personal ’ , or indeed ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 30 | There are many fat lesbians , but very few on ‘ the scene ’ , because those fat women who do go to lesbian clubs and bars are always in a minority and thus feel noticeable . |