Example sentences of "is [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restricting property assessments to just eight bands with a top level of , in effect , £320,000 is blatantly in favour of those privileged , wealthy occupiers whose homes have a value of anything between £650,000 to £20 million — and that includes many staunch Tory supporters . |
| 2 | The customer 's is mostly in Creole , cf. lines 11 and 16 , where the boundaries of the Creole stretches correspond with " quotation marks " . |
| 3 | ‘ We should be honest , and accept that most of the money in the sport comes either from TV directly , or as a result of television interest , which is mostly in track and field . |
| 4 | A way forward seemed to have emerged some decades ago with the school of " facet analysis " developed from the work of Dr S. R. Ranganathan , whose revolutionary Colon Classification is widely in use throughout India . |
| 5 | Dr Ranganathan was one of the most brilliant and imaginative figures the profession has seen ; his Colon Classification went through many revisions and new editions , and is widely in use in his own country , yet elsewhere it is admired but , for good reasons , not employed . |
| 6 | Nor can I look at the way in which this view of faith and reason has influenced contemporary Christian thinking , both mainstream and among the evangelical or fundamentalist groups where it is most in evidence . |
| 7 | The management information system should indicate what is most in need of investigation . |
| 8 | Black was weak in possession and this is Thomson now Oldfield Lewis moving down the left and here he is eventually in possession . |
| 9 | Prose narrative of the Middle Ages is overwhelmingly in Latin ; vernacular narrative is usually in verse . |
| 10 | In fact , our trade with the EC is overwhelmingly in deficit . |
| 11 | As Table 3.4 columns 4 and 5 show , the discount houses ' business is overwhelmingly in sterling and their ‘ sight ’ liabilities are far greater than for any other banks . |
| 12 | Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that . |
| 13 | He has good fingers and can never be accused of interpretative posturing ; but his phrasing can be unimaginative , his passagework frequently sounds étude - like , and his feeling for dramatic ebb and flow is rarely in evidence . |
| 14 | The outcome is rarely in doubt . |
| 15 | Likewise , efficient marketing of both chlorine and caustic soda is essential as demand for the two chemicals is rarely in balance . |
| 16 | Most of them do all they can for the elderly with their limited resources , but if your parent is badly in need of a telephone and there is no way of your managing to install it for her , you should bring every possible pressure to bear to produce some speedy action on his or her behalf ; for sudden illness , and the need for medical attention , does not wait for lengthy negotiations and committee work to rumble on indefinitely before it puts in an appearance.With very few exceptions , blaming individual social workers for delay in providing any particular service is usually an unfair and useless exercise , for they are only part of a large organisation and if things go wrong an approach to the local Director of Social Services is the best course of action . |
| 17 | ‘ This will be the boost this region is badly in need of , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In terms of practical day-to-day administration , which is substantial and significant , the Commission is effectively in charge , but its activities are , in the end , prescribed by the Council . |
| 19 | But a God who can bring good out of the worst of evils is wholly in control . |
| 20 | His signing is wholly in line with Anfield tradition . |
| 21 | The total picture is incomplete , partly because not everyone who is disabled is necessarily in receipt of a pension or special welfare service and many of those on the disabled persons employment register , for example , include those with mental handicap as well as those with physical disabilities . |
| 22 | She now has a thriving business and is constantly in demand . |
| 23 | But because of the very vagueness of form in the crime novel it is all the more important to bear what it is constantly in mind , and all the more difficult to do so . |
| 24 | Princess Daisy is constantly in danger on the Nintendo screen . |
| 25 | Assistance Publique 's responsibility as the community hospital system for the poor of Paris is constantly in danger of being overwhelmed by its newer role as the country 's leading provider of tertiary referral services . |
| 26 | Elected government is constantly in danger of being discredited by episodes which expose its relative impotence compared to these , great agglomerations of private and unaccountable economic power . |
| 27 | Tonight he joins distinguished lexicographers Prof John Sinclair ( Birmingham University ) John Simpson ( Oxford English Dictionary ) and Sara Tulloch ( Oxford Dictionary of New words ) to take a wry look at the way the English language is constantly in flux . |
| 28 | Throughout our long conversation his head is constantly in motion , eyes darting to and fro consciously avoiding my gaze . |
| 29 | It is especially in East Greece that in the middle and later sixth century engravers ( like two Samians , Theodoros and Mnesarchos , father of the philosopher Pythagoras ) produce the first tiny masterpieces of this art which is to flourish on through classical and Hellenistic times . |
| 30 | ( Station Lane where the water authority has been installing a pipe is especially in need of repair . ) |