Example sentences of "be [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pension arrangements will be wholly in the private sector . |
| 2 | Mervyn Pinfield 's role as Associate Producer on Doctor Who was agreed to be mostly in an advisory capacity . |
| 3 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 4 | Gesner would be on in a few moments and then the thing would lift off . |
| 5 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 6 | In long and complex cases delay was inevitable and had to be accepted , so why then , she asked , should that not be so in a simple case . |
| 7 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 8 | This may be so in the individual case but the effect is outweighed by the cumulative effect on company results when the whole is considered . |
| 9 | The problem arises : why is religion so widespread in the evolution of humanity , and still continues to be so in the modern world ? |
| 10 | I mean that 's the som that 's er an issue that er has been dealt with I think it 's policy resources can continue to be so in the coming years . |
| 11 | They got on the bus puffing and blowing but happy to be inside in the warm , and sat in their own special places . |
| 12 | This initial thickness allows the final 30 µm section to be entirely in the undamaged layer . |
| 13 | I want us to be together in the next life . ’ |
| 14 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 15 | ‘ All members of the team are to be down in the lower block , with their kit , half an hour before lock-up … |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Parkinson is with Sir Ewen in the big house , but he 'll be along in a few minutes , ’ Bob informed them after Maggie explained why she was there . |
| 17 | ‘ The Kilcharran will be alongside in a few minutes . |
| 18 | According to calculations carried out on her data , Cohen estimated the duration of the icon to be longer in the left ( 57 msec. ) than the right ( 34 msec. ) visual field . |
| 19 | He might be downstairs in the plush lounge , or in his own room talking to Lee . |
| 20 | NCD 's base is believed to be largely in the technical arena . |
| 21 | They do n't know how useful it would be but anyway , they said there , there 's , it 's a slightly odd event because it 's actually going to be just in the Civic Centre , and er , and kind of tacking on some workshops and things , so I 'm going to help her with workshops and have a display stand and so on but other than that , we 've not really got any direct input into it , because it is very much , sort of , you know , this is how you do business in France , these are the financial problems , type of thing . |
| 22 | ‘ I shall be away in the Persian Gulf that week , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Wars had been fought before by the regular Army , and this one , it was supposed , would be the same : it would be over in a few months , it not weeks . |
| 24 | I just thought that the war would be fought far away , like the one in Abyssinia , and that it would be over in a few days , or weeks at the most . |
| 25 | Glasgow High/Kelvinside are hopeful that Shade Munro 's prolonged absence will be over in the New Year . |
| 26 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 27 | Of course it would be unusual to be permanently in an optimistic state of mind , but who do you think gets more pleasure out of life ? |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll be home in a few days , ’ she told them happily . |
| 29 | He 'll be home in a few minutes . |
| 30 | The Alexander Technique is a way of directing our conscious minds in order to be more in the present moment . |