Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [is] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you liked those erm were they countryman 's or ploughman 's in a packet and you just throw them into the pan and cook it for about fifteen minutes ? |
| 2 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 3 | The further problems are associated with difficulties that are encountered when trying to be precise about just how probable a law or theory is in the light of specified evidence . |
| 4 | Because the client or tenant is in a state of long-term indebtedness , he owes his patron a ‘ debt of gratitude ’ and should be ready to help the latter on a diffuse , non-contractual basis . |
| 5 | One physical reminder that change is in the air was the disappearance in April this year of the Army Catering Corps name , after more than 50 years . |
| 6 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 7 | There is little point in telling the staff that relocation is in the air if there are no precise facts available to answer employees ' questions . |
| 8 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 9 | Mr Kinnock intends to reinforce his conviction that Labour is in a position to win in his keynote speech tomorrow . |
| 10 | To the extent that sex is in the head , then Johnny needs the head . |
| 11 | But Mr Khamenei 's active involvement in government means that power is in the hands of two men , and the one is constantly undermined by the other . |
| 12 | Every single food you see in every supermarket , butcher 's , greengrocer 's and fishmonger 's in the land has calories lurking within . |
| 13 | The menu for creating contexts is controlled by context-tables : thus if Book-title is in the context-table it appears in the author 's menu . |
| 14 | Such things can not be scorned , and Esau is in no mood for scorn anyway . |
| 15 | The UK 's highest sulphur pollution as dry deposition and gas is in the power station belts of the East Midlands , South Yorkshire and north Kent . |
| 16 | If Putt is in the habit of making frequent journeys to London he 'll have already rid himself of such incriminating items there . |
| 17 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 18 | One of the all time greats of rock and roll is in the region tonight on the last date of a UK tour . |
| 19 | Those who run tennis live in the Victorian age , football is run by proven failures , cricket ruled by men who still belong to the archaic Gentlemen v. Players era and athletics is in the hands of incompetent amateurs . |
| 20 | ‘ Something long and cool is in the fridge . |
| 21 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |
| 22 | The FID relinquished responsibility for the scheme in 1990 , and copyright is in the hands of the BSO Panel . |
| 23 | Thou vauntest much of conquering me , but victory is in the hands of the Almighty , not in thine . |
| 24 | But beauty is in the eye of the beholder . |
| 25 | That 's why it 's so tempting to think that it 's always women erm because power is in the hands of men on the whole , especially in this university . |
| 26 | She says she ca n't do it while Mummy 's in the house . |
| 27 | BMP files were n't of good quality , and , since beauty is in the eye of the beholder , I 've pulled out some of the screens that I like . |
| 28 | ( a ) the nature of the shareholdings in the company ( including whether control is in the hands of the public or is privately held ) ; |
| 29 | When nookey is in the offing bosoms do not so much swell as burst over the lace like a pair of dumplings rising to the surface of a casserole pot . |
| 30 | The idea was prompted by commercial interests and , valuable as money is in the game , it has no place in setting up these gimmicky matches . |