Example sentences of "in a [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't tell you precisely what weapon , but my guess of a piece of lead piping wrapped in a sock is as good as any . |
| 2 | The monkey in a waistcoat was on a chain attached to the dancing man 's belt . |
| 3 | But statistics by themselves were never enough to satisfy the inquiring mind of a man who says : ‘ The measure of greatness in a cricketer is nothing to do with numbers , but is in the occasions which watchers remember with joy — think of McCabe and his three extraordinary innings . ’ |
| 4 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 5 | Talking about how you are getting along in a relationship is going to help it to flourish and grow . |
| 6 | There are times when the way a woman uses her tears in a relationship is a barrier to her growth . |
| 7 | I doubt if exclusivity in a relationship is something he values , ’ Luke taunted inimically . |
| 8 | Reference is emphatically excluded and reflexivity reinforced : ‘ What takes place ’ in a narrative is from the referential ( reality ) point of view literally nothing ; ‘ what happens ’ is language alone , the adventure of language , the unceasing celebration of its coming . ’ |
| 9 | What 's Can you remember what the point in a conversation is where a speaker has a chance to become a new speaker ? |
| 10 | They constructed a circular model , where both parties in a conversation are shown as having virtually the same functions . |
| 11 | the only cakes I make in erm in a microwave are chocolate cakes |
| 12 | I cut it out of Cosmopolitan magazine : an article entitled ‘ Think Yourself Thin ’ , illustrated by a blonde woman in a bikini being carried on the arms of two grinning , solid young men . |
| 13 | Hyacinth , who worked as beautician in a hairdresser 's in Arden , was nineteen , big-busted ( ‘ It 's like seeing Fylingdales Early Warning system coming at you ’ ) and handsome . |
| 14 | The most important single reason why diamond is a good abrasive material is that the individual carbon atoms in a diamond are bonded together extremely strongly . |
| 15 | The idea , too , that ‘ people did n't think like that then ’ is significant ; we do not know , of course , how many people at a certain point in a history were ( for example ) feminists , who were prevented from writing about their views , or whose writings have been forgotten or lost . |
| 16 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 17 | The problem , however , is that the appointment of a curator in a will is a nullity ; and the bequest of the income from the land ( it is not a usufruct , as the nurses think ) is dependent on it . |
| 18 | In the yard an old man in a beret was clipping a pony 's mane . |
| 19 | Such a bit image blocks are not normally compressed , and anyone using graphics in a document is familiar with the time it takes to load the printer . |
| 20 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 21 | The Americans that I have spoken to tell me that the average amount of fluid they use in a case is 24 to 32 oz . |
| 22 | Winning a major prize in a competition is something people only dream of . |
| 23 | Expenditure a person incurs by exercising an option in a contract is not expenditure incurred under that contract . |
| 24 | Thus an exclusion clause in a contract is a defence available only to a contracted party and only against the other contracted party , Scruttons v. Midland Silicones ( 1962 H.L. ) . |
| 25 | In all cases it is necessary that the defendant specifically pleads that a certain term in a contract is in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 26 | She says : ‘ It will be interesting to see what people who spend Christmas in a hotel are like . ’ |
| 27 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 28 | The danger of killing himself in a fall was very real , but this was a fear he had learned to master , even to enjoy . |
| 29 | To continue the analogy however , one danger of a cuckoo in a nest is that before flying it may permanently displace other promising chicks which could be particularly concerned with processes ( chapter 5 ) and man ( 6 ) and such themes are not readily accommodated in an earth science , geoscience or environmental science structure . |
| 30 | Perhaps he did n't even realize what the implication of living in a rectory was . |