Example sentences of "[adv] in the [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very fact that you are interested enough in the possibility to be reading this book makes it so . |
| 2 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 3 | Moreover , most self-employed contract computer staff are self-employed not only in the sense of being responsible for their own tax and paying Class II ( self-employed person 's ) social security contributions , but also in the sense of being one-man , limited companies . |
| 4 | Yet another Pakistani , the former world champion Jansher Khan , was rather prematurely in the news for being rebuked by Chris Dittmar , the president of the players ' association , for allegedly being too demanding of the tournament organisers . |
| 5 | She was no longer in the habit of being late : her life had schooled her to temporal accuracy , perhaps to being considerate . |
| 6 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 7 | But other concerns seem to centre around whether animals might properly be said to be happy or free from worry' , not in the sense of being healthy and free from pain but rather with the human paradigm in mind . |
| 8 | Households and private firms can only increase their spending by using their savings or by borrowing — they are not in the position of being able to raise taxes or to print money for themselves . |
| 9 | Action : Specified module is not in the structure to be updated — remove it from the steering file |
| 10 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 11 | In the month that WWII broke out , Trumbo 's pacifistic novel about the previous bash was issued and instantly suppressed ( a move with which , incidentally , the author was in full agreement , feeling it too dangerous a book for soldiers already in the field to be exposed to ) . |
| 12 | The collection comprises 15,000 pieces of thirteenth- to eighteenth-century ceramic ware , built around a nucleus of three collections , and already in the process of being catalogued . |
| 13 | By the end of the first lap he was in the lead group , following Klementiev , Bohacs and Zereske with Bartunek already in the process of being dropped and no-one else in sight . |
| 14 | Crawford was featured more prominently in The Importance of Being Earnest , as Algernon Moncrieff . |
| 15 | Are the Scots and Irish playing their rugby elsewhere in the league to be exiled , too , in the name of raising standards ? |
| 16 | But in the political language of the right in the 1980s it is outside in the sense of being cast as alien , normally via the stigmata of race or socialism , the locus of criminal delinquency , the site of disorder . |
| 17 | Kern 's view adds substance to anecdotal evidence from some businesses in the 10 days since the last interest rate cut — evidence that suggests the corner is finally in the process of being turned . |
| 18 | ‘ To see inside so many great affairs , sometimes even to help plan them , yet always in the end to be the — you say , third person ? ’ |
| 19 | It should be noted that counts of breeding pairs of this species must be made early in the year to be accurate . |
| 20 | In a sense we were still in the aftermath of being one person . |
| 21 | We slipped along the now four-lane Al Ain highway , winding in and out of the sections which were still in the process of being built . |
| 22 | These prints are still in the process of being recovered . |
| 23 | Her home — owned on a mortgage — is still in the process of being ‘ done up ’ : some rooms gleam with newly stripped floorboards and pristine white walls , while others have barely been touched . |
| 24 | The burnt-out remains of the mill are still in the process of being demolished and fire crews expect to be there for at least another day . |
| 25 | Moreover , most self-employed contract computer staff are self-employed not only in the sense of being responsible for their own tax and paying Class II ( self-employed person 's ) social security contributions , but also in the sense of being one-man , limited companies . |
| 26 | Theodora got up in the expectation of being dismissed . |
| 27 | One of the biggest nightmares for company chiefs is to wake up in the morning to be greeted by Which ? headlines branding their latest product as ‘ rip-off ’ or ‘ death-trap ’ . |
| 28 | It consists of a short phrase in the slow introduction to the opening movement , which in the Septet is given out in the major before being echoed in the minor , but which appears both times in the minor in the transcription . |
| 29 | They would hide all his own clothes and , having forced him to wear his sister 's , they would lock him out in the street to be chased and bullied by the neighbourhood gangs . |
| 30 | My Lords , for the reasons set out in the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , which I have had the opportunity of considering in draft and with which I agree , I would allow this appeal . |