Example sentences of "they [verb] be in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 2 | A great many assessment systems are competitive in that the extrinsic rewards they offer are in short supply and each student who wants them is asked to demonstrate that he or she is more deserving than others , or others are less deserving . |
| 3 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 4 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 5 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 6 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 7 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 8 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 9 | They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high . |
| 10 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 11 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 12 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 13 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 14 | Customs duties rose under Mary and landed income fell in real terms : by 1603 the two were nearly level , as they had been in 1509 . |
| 15 | With almost as much of an increase in the volume of exports and an even greater one in that of re-exports , ports engaged in foreign trade were , as a group , handling four times as much cargo in 1800 as they had been in 1700 , and perhaps two and a half times as much as in 1750 . |
| 16 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 17 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 18 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 19 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 20 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 21 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 22 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 23 | In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War . |
| 24 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 25 | And can I just say , a governing body that I am on , I 've just recently gone on to , employs private cleaning contractors , it did n't want the D S O , and ever since that contract has come in , they have been in terrible , terrible trouble . |
| 26 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 27 | They have been in some ways too successful . |
| 28 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 29 | Charity commissioners admit they have been in lengthy discussions with Jansen 's solicitors about her position with the charitable foundation . |
| 30 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |