Example sentences of "be in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Well we can forget about those cos they 're in sets of ten . |
2 | which is the only update I can do , cos they 're in banks of four . |
3 | The boys are the worst , especially if they 're in gangs like the ones here . |
4 | ‘ I am in lodgings in Chapel Street , you must know that all my possessions from Summer Lodge had to be sold ? ’ |
5 | The new mortgage would pay most of what I am in arrears with him you see so , which would keep him happy . |
6 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
7 | Right so B one up to now speeds have been in metres per second we also use miles per hour M P H or M I H and kilometres per hour , K M H or K M P H |
8 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
9 | I just been in loads of workshops |
10 | As I say , I 'd al been in things at chapel , Silas Marner and things , but er this was another thing , and of course , that 's where I met my wife , at er Row , which is the boys ' clu was the boys ' club 's Headquarters . |
11 | I have n't been in wards for about twenty two years . |
12 | This theme of joy won through suffering was especially powerful in the persecution faced by the early church , as it has been in times of persecution since . |
13 | The main change has been in attitudes to Japan and Western Europe . |
14 | Because it has been in reactors for so long , this sort of plutonium is not best-suited to nuclear weapons . |
15 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc had been in discussions with Novell Inc for a NetWare client for its Open Desktop products — see front page — but those talks are more or less canned now that SCO thinks it 'll be able to get the same stuff through COSE . |
16 | We 've just been in discussions with the manufacturers and we actually but we 're hoping to get a discount on that in the near future so we 're hoping the cost of that will come down . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Some successful applications have been in studies of the spreading behaviour of oxides such as MoO 3 on Al 2 O 3 ) , the formation of monolayers by solid-solid wetting ( such as the spreading of MoO 3 , WO 3 , and V 2 O 5 on an Al 2 O 3 support ) , and the conditions for formation of surface polymolybdate , which is considered to be a precursor state for the active catalyst . |
19 | I 've been in hurricanes on the Florida Keys and there 's plenty of time to flirt around with fear . |
20 | He had been in scenes like this with his teenage daughters , and he kept thinking : ‘ I must stay cool . ’ |
21 | The troubled DIY group has been in talks with its bankers arranging a refinancing of the £553million loans taken out at the time of the management buy-out . |
22 | Craine says Rabbit has been in talks with various companies , but declined to comment any further . |
23 | Rates have fallen in all regions but the biggest drops have been in regions with the highest rates . |
24 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
25 | X/Open , which has been in negotiations with OSF for over a year now , was supposed to have incorporated DCE into its Common Applications Environment some time ago : that announcement is also on ice until the two can work something out . |
26 | Efficiency — how successful has MDC been in terms of the physical regeneration of its area and in promoting private sector confidence and investment ? |
27 | Faced with an apparent nonconformity the explanation has generally been in terms of cultural replacement rather than change . |
28 | The final attempts at explanation have been in terms of ‘ cultural defence ’ and see moral protest groups arising in response to broader cultural changes , as opposed to changes in class structure or the role of religion . |
29 | The chairman can then , whether it is justified or not , tell his board of directors and his shareholders how successful the whole exercise has been in terms of customer relations and exposure for the company and its services . |
30 | But I can think areas er like on Europe , I do n't there 's been anybody who 's been in terms of projecting the issue erm , er better than George Robertson has dode done in terms of the European er issue . |