Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen what a struggle it must have been for men in the late 18th century to keep body and soul together — how much worse , then , for their womenfolk . |
| 2 | For Constantine , in short , the Messiah was precisely what the Messiah had been for Jews in Palestine at the dawn of the Christian era — a ruler , a sovereign , a warrior leader like David and Solomon , who reigned wisely over a temporal realm , established unity in his domains , consolidated a nation and people with divine sanction to support him . |
| 3 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 4 | The only job vacancies in Angleside are for interviewers in the Social Security office , where the furniture is screwed to the floor in case the clients should try to assault the interviewers with it . |
| 5 | There are complex historical reasons for this , just as there are for differences in the amount of seasoning used in cooking . |
| 6 | Wednesdays are for jobs in the media . |
| 7 | Advertisements here are for jobs in personnel and training , selling and management , as well as technical and professional . |
| 8 | As for li , it is pattern , structure , order ; the concrete uses of the word are for veins in jade and the grain of wood . |
| 9 | Negotiations over pay are about changes in money wages . |
| 10 | Such studies are of patients in a tertiary care setting who are unlikely to be representative of all persons experiencing IBS symptoms . |
| 11 | They 're behind desks in big cities tapping at computers . ’ |
| 12 | you can do this but you ca n't do that and and really they 're , they 're like children in a way , they will sort of try it on as much as they can get away with it ! |
| 13 | ‘ They 're like babes in the wood , but they 'll be all right . |
| 14 | Government attempts to restrict the sale of gin in 1736 are usually considered to have been behind disturbances in that year , but these also involved the resentment of building workers and weavers at being displaced from employment by the cheaper Irish . |
| 15 | ‘ Critics are like eunuchs in a harem . |
| 16 | Organisms , then , are like vortices in that their structure is maintained by a flow of energy , but the complexity of that structure is controlled by stable replicating molecules . |
| 17 | Electrons are like spouses in monogamous countries ; there is either one or none . |
| 18 | Put forward the idea that " answers " are like hypotheses in science which have to be tested and tried out and replaced by better ones if necessary , but the testing has to be appropriate to the subject-matter . |
| 19 | The Israelites in Numbers 11 are like foxes in God 's chicken run . |
| 20 | There are sub-plots , and secondary games with pink , green and lilac , but the dominant themes are like handholds in this fell-bordering farmhouse … |
| 21 | And these directories are like drawers in your filing cabinets and then you 've got further sub-directories still , below that , then er , they 're like folders , within your er , filing cabinet drawer . |
| 22 | But once let them lose confidence , and they are like children in the dark , reaching out for the grasp of a strong hand . |
| 23 | Doubts are like sicknesses in that the prevalent types vary from country to country and from culture to culture . |
| 24 | Horses are like humans in many respects , you know — some you can trust your children with and some you ca n't . |
| 25 | ‘ I am in lodgings in Chapel Street , you must know that all my possessions from Summer Lodge had to be sold ? ’ |
| 26 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 27 | Have you ever been in arrears in your rent at all ? |
| 28 | The most obvious growth has been in consultancies in child abuse — especially sexual abuse — but there are also consultancies in psychotherapy , stress management and group work . |
| 29 | Doctors forecast that only half the people who stopped smoking will still be off cigarettes in a year . |
| 30 | These trends are perhaps not surprising but it should be noted that the result will be for schools in disadvantaged areas to lose pupils and to increase their unit costs per pupil . |