Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge can not remember a time when he did not want to be in a pop group . |
| 2 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |
| 3 | But he did not seem to be in any hurry . |
| 4 | Still resolute , she turned to the desk : something was wrong , her books and papers did not seem to be in their usual place . |
| 5 | His brief judgments were conscientiously prepared , but his heart did not seem to be in the job . |
| 6 | The secret is to arrange the stripes so that they do not appear to be in regular order and this can be done in a number of ways . |
| 7 | arrangements for the systematic collection of feedback information from research students do not appear to be in place . |
| 8 | Poland , on all available evidence , do not deserve to be in Stockholm . |
| 9 | They do not want to be in the position of having to make decisions . |
| 10 | It is always almost impossible for a single practitioner to obtain more than the other firms in the area are obtaining and you do not want to be in a position of being undersold because your colleagues in other firms have an unrealistic view about what should be charged . |
| 11 | Obviously we do not want to be in two minds up to the last day and he would n't do that but there is quite a a period of discretion where the time gets shorter and er he would have to make a judgement . |
| 12 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 13 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 14 | Until you are consistently getting the photos you want from inside the photographic sector , you will need to fly some distance beyond the turning point so that you do not have to be in a very steep turn or exactly positioned . |
| 15 | You did n't want to be in the way when Luke hit the ball . |
| 16 | Your brother was a beautiful child , was n't he , but he did n't want to be in the business ? |
| 17 | ‘ You did n't want to be in l-love ? ’ she asked shyly . |
| 18 | But I did n't want to be in the office making phone calls to people who 're rude and saying go away . |
| 19 | In addition , perhaps the wardrobe offered too wide a choice of styles and colours which meant there were several occasions when staff did n't appear to be in uniform even though they were all very smart wearing Corporate Wardrobe outfits . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't deserve to be in the squad for the championship game with Down , but it 's a long road and as you mature you realise that as the year progresses certain players will falter and others will come to prominence . ’ |
| 22 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 23 | Here we were , approaching the sixth wartime Christmas and still the end did n't seem to be in sight . |
| 24 | This part of the country did n't seem to be in the war . |
| 25 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 26 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
| 27 | His heart did n't seem to be in much of anything , right now . |
| 28 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 29 | It did n't have to be for one slot , it did n't have to be in a particular form , it could be anything as long as it used the medium for visual ends . |
| 30 | It did n't look to be in the least loose . |