Example sentences of "be [indef pn] in the " in BNC.

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1 For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt .
2 There 's been nothing in the media about the hair either , but that piece of unpleasantness seems to be generally known .
3 Lugh was certain that there had been nothing in the least bit noticeable about their journey .
4 When she had thrown the gravel , there had been someone in the pill-box directly ahead of her .
5 Some people swore it must have been someone in the Martin family .
6 ‘ Of course , ’ Athelstan continued , ‘ the assassin may have been someone in the Tower who knew where Sir Ralph lay , and seized the opportunity of the moat freezing over to gain access to the footholds on the North Bastion .
7 Data General chief , Ron Skates , said he ‘ anticipates OEM agreements ’ for CLARiiON , though there are none in the bag as yet .
8 Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes .
9 A good example are the ‘ golf ’ tickets from Craven Arms to Plowden , where upon making enquiries I was informed that there was no golf course , but there had been one in the years before World War One .
10 There must have been something in the Florida air in addition to vitamin C. One of the passes from Vinny Testaverde , the Tampa Bay quarterback , went through the hands of his intended receiver right in front of the goal-line , and into the hands of a team-mate , Mark Carrier , for a touchdown .
11 There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money .
12 There had been something in the Wingco 's demeanour that Benson did not like much , however , a quietness , an air of brooding .
13 And all souls are one in the great ocean of the Supreme Consciousness , the Lord .
14 The two liturgies of Word and of Eucharist are one in the Mass , but a liturgy of the Word in any circumstance should serve our next and further celebrations of Mass .
15 The caveat that we 've put against the whole report is that there are something in the region of half a dozen major government initiated reviews into fire safety in this country .
16 At LDC level , an extrapolation of the figures provided by Edwards and Lloyd ( 1981 ) suggests that there are something in the order of 14,000 local-level formal meetings a year .
17 If you refuse to buy it from Brazil , tropical timber , their exports are something in the region of between 3 to 5 percent of their .
18 If the courts were to limit the offences to circumstances in which another computer was also involved , there would be nothing in the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to cover industrial espionage or obtaining other confidential security information stored in a company 's computer .
19 Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode .
20 There seems to be nothing in the early stages of the series which could support one continuation against the other .
21 He pointed out that there would be nothing in the Act to meet what is itself a mischief frequently encountered today , namely , industrial espionage or obtaining information as to security details or other confidential information which may be stored on a company 's computer .
22 There would be nothing in the Rory Collins thing , she knew that , it was just a wild flirtation .
23 This chapter examines the progress in a reference after the expert has been appointed , and explains : ( 1 ) that there is no set procedure outside the contract ( 11.2 ) ; ( 2 ) that there may be nothing in the contract about the procedure ( 11.3 ) ; ( 3 ) terms of reference ( 11.4 ) ; ( 4 ) procedural directions ( 11.5 ) ; ( 5 ) conduct of the investigation ( 11.6 ) ; ( 6 ) the form of the decision ( 11.7 ) ; ( 7 ) that there are no published procedures for specific applications except the RICS guidance notes ( 11.8 ) .
24 This meant that his grandad was temporarily unavailable for a ‘ tap ’ , but there was bound to be someone in the cafe who would stand him a coffee .
25 As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with .
26 Most likely there will be someone in the close family or a reliable friend .
27 Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists .
28 She felt limp and exhausted , but there might be someone in the kitchen , and she could n't face anyone else at the moment .
29 There must be someone in the group older than 35 .
30 There could be someone in the outside world who is prepared to take over and put money into the club .
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