Example sentences of "be [det] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the rat this method can be regarded as specific for the enterochromaffin like cells , because the mast cells are few in the mucosa and restricted to the superficial layer .
2 Those are the Trehandiri and Perama types and I know there are some in the Cyclades .
3 There are some in the field at the back . ’
4 There are some in the window with roughly that width of blade .
5 Although most brachiopods were attached to a firm substrate by a stalk which emerges through a hole in the pointed end of the animal , there are some in the fossil record in which there is no opening for such a stalk .
6 I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well .
7 The budget problems of the South Wales police have been much in the news .
8 I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out .
9 ‘ They 're all in a hurry .
10 They 're all in the nick .
11 Well no , cos they 're all in the pile love somewhere .
12 They 're all in the hall .
13 You 're all in the mood and
14 Spring this on them at the worst possible time ; make sure they 're all in the corridor if possible , so you have the maximum number of potential victims .
15 Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ?
16 They 're all in the mind ; experiences like abductions are psychological states that we do n't understand .
17 But we 're all in the dark about guitar strings .
18 People get a very negative attitude , they think that these , like there was a caller recently that sort of equated nationalism with er , with you know Nazis and , that 's completely wrong , I mean , but , and , and , you 're all in the news you 're always hearing about the radical nationalist deputies as if they 're some sort of strange breed of person , but in fact they 're just like the MPs in our House of Commons , democratically elected people , sensible people who want peace , they want prosperity for their country and er , there 's , there 's no mad empire imperial ambitions , Lithuania has no need for an army or anything , but er apart from just maintaining er internal er control , but er people have a very strange attitude a very anti nationalists , I find it curious .
19 they think they 're all in the beds , .
20 Answers tend to be vague and general , and sometimes phrased in terms of domains or interlocutors , as in the following description : Well they do n't really use it , like , well , now and then , like if we 're all in the family , if like my mum 's going to say somefing , right , she wo n't say " Wayne would you go do de dishes please " , she 'll say [ z ] somep'n like dat — she would say it in a West Indian talk but normally if like if there 's a visitor or something it would be plain English …
21 That evening , once the children have gone to bed ( little ones at 7.30 p.m. and big ones at 9.30 ) we 're all in the sitting room for the monthly meeting between the women , the workers and the management committee who operate as a support group .
22 Democracy is a dicey business : it must be seen to work , but not actually to apply , or else we 're all in the soup .
23 I understand these are all in a state of disrepair and I should be grateful if you would investigate and arrange for them to be made good .
24 We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally .
25 The passenger-carrying airline pilot , the scientist operating the nuclear reactor , the chemist in charge of research into the possible effects of , for example , Thalidomide , the driver of the Manchester to London express , the driver of an articulated lorry full of sulphuric acid , are all in a position in which one failure to maintain the proper standard of professional skill can bring about a major disaster .
26 It can be hard if they are all in a group talking about people or things you know nothing about .
27 The circus hopefuls who are all in a spin .
28 In fact , if the starlings are all in a circle ( perhaps the lawn has a fairy ring which the worms find congenial ) , then the centre of the flock will be quite a long way from any of the birds .
29 Thus he expresses the realisation that in the still mourning is a moving power and the lyric ends with another juxtaposition , this time of two positive certainties , of the reality of the vision longed for , and of the recognition that the power to realise it is love which on man 's part essentially expresses its dynamic nature by means of patience , " the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting " .
30 All that could change , however , as another West End run , a film and possible TV series based on the play are all in the pipeline .
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