Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SSP is payable for up to 28 weeks in a PIW , but most periods of sickness are over in three weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the first time I 've been back in eight years , ’ says Brenda , who is at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight and the Playhouse , Edinburgh , tomorrow . |
| 3 | Our fieldworkers are out in all conditions , rescuing bewildered , sick , injured , maimed and terrified animals . |
| 4 | I 'm on in five minutes , that old ass slowed me down . ’ |
| 5 | " He said he 'd be along in ten minutes . " |
| 6 | But he said he did n't mind as long as he was helping the war effort , and anyway it would all be over in six months and he could go back to selling firewood . |
| 7 | Maybe it wo n't , and my father says it 'll be over in six months anyway , so none of them will have to go . ’ |
| 8 | Again , in the late 1920s Max Born told a group of scientists visiting Göttingen that ‘ physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . ’ |
| 9 | Then again , in 1928 , physicist and Nobel prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Göttingen University , " Physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . " |
| 10 | The leaf season should be over in 2 weeks , when a resumption of normal service is promised . |
| 11 | The show 'll be over in ten minutes . |
| 12 | I said you would be over in 30 minutes , but that was an hour ago . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll be off in ten minutes . ’ |
| 14 | We 'll be up in five minutes . ’ |
| 15 | But the test was , apparently , extremely effective : for if after this exercise the ground was judged right and the sowing proceeded satisfactorily , the husbandman expected the barley ‘ to be up in three days ’ . |
| 16 | If you are likely to be out in such conditions , seek the advice of your retailer when buying your boots . |
| 17 | My son will be out in six months and Mrs Gillick will be taking us under her wing in the absence of your good self . |
| 18 | I 'll be out in two days , I do n't care . ’ |
| 19 | Official viewing figures will be out in two weeks ' time . |
| 20 | I think it is appalling that this man could be out in 3½ years . |
| 21 | He could be out in three years if all went well . |
| 22 | Northern Telecom Ltd signed distribution agreements with Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Televerket of Sweden for its Companion wireless telephone system that supports cordless phones on its PABXs : the system will be marketed in the Netherlands as Vox Cordless Companion and in Sweden as part of the Cosmos 2000 family and will be out in both countries next quarter . |
| 23 | She 'll be out in ten minutes , but I 'll pinch some loose skin just to make sure there 's no reaction . ’ |
| 24 | He 'll be out in ten years … |
| 25 | Said he 'd be back in six weeks . |
| 26 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
| 27 | I shall be back in five minutes ’ time . |
| 28 | said right , I shall be back in five minutes . |
| 29 | I shall be back in twenty-eight days to check your progress . ’ |
| 30 | I trust we shall be back in two years from the time we left England … |