Example sentences of "be [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Am I in that ?
2 Where am I in this name ?
3 Why am I in this position ?
4 ‘ John , ’ she said , ‘ could that figure they saw have been somebody in one of these ? ’
5 Are you in financial difficulties as a result of drinking ? 13 .
6 Why are you in reverse video ?
7 I back toward the door trying to shush her , till she stops shouting long enough to ask , ‘ What sort of business are you in that uses kids as errand boys ? ’
8 ‘ Why are you in such a hurry to be really and truly wed ? ’ asked Joan curiously .
9 ‘ Why are you in such a hurry to leave , anyway ?
10 ‘ Why are you in such a hurry ? ’
11 So we look at the age , look at the level of cover , health , you look healthy Shirley , are you in good health ?
12 Nor are you in any position to make them .
13 Are you in any pain ? ’ she asked the bottle .
14 Are you in some kind of trouble ?
15 Are you in some kind of trouble ?
16 ‘ Why are you in this state ? ’
17 ‘ Mel , just how involved are you in this murder ? ’
18 Are you in rented property so feel you just have to put up with what you have ?
19 Are you in mucky end or other end ?
20 But all governments are holier-than-thou in this respect and never publicly associate themselves with them .
21 Had n't there been something in that book about Graham Young ?
22 Are we in close touch with our firms in discussions on 1992 ?
23 Are we in this fantasy being invited to vote for fairy godmothers ?
24 They are one in nine hundred similar food outlets in Cotswold District we deal with them all even handedly but where there are problems we have a statutory responsibility to deal with them
25 The chances of having a severely mentally handicapped child are one in 200 .
26 ‘ The chances of the blood belonging to anybody else are one in 1,400 million , ’ he added .
27 One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there .
28 Will the number one plate be his in 1992 ?
29 if that , if anybody would see that it 'd be somebody in neutral position , like me , and as far as I 'm concerned treat them all the same
30 Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites
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