Example sentences of "[is] in the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 2 | It 's here that breakthrough 's in the fight against diseases like cancer have been made . |
| 3 | It 's in the nature of monks not to be stupid . ’ |
| 4 | Welll Cabinet 's are always under strain it 's in the nature of poltics , but I expect John Patten to be back at work within the course of this month , he 's just gone on holidasy when he returns he 's going back to the office . |
| 5 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 6 | It 's money you would n't get cos it 's in the sort of holidays . |
| 7 | In retrospect , for instance , he thought that Suite had choreography rather like Balanchine 's in the phrasing of sequences and repeats to the music , and in the lines , which were not straight like a corps de ballet of swans or sylphides but went off suddenly at an angle . |
| 8 | The most important source of bias is in the selection of patients , and there is little doubt that some mid/early cases have been excluded by the symptom led investigatory protocol and by the requirement for unequivocal features at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography . |
| 9 | Another area in which new technology has been developed is in the manufacture of dyestuffs used in the coatings of carbonless papers ( the Ciba-Geigy Pergascript range of colour formers ) . |
| 10 | Pike are the fathers of all coarse fish they will eat almost anything that is in the way including ducklings and water rats . |
| 11 | Pirelli UK 's marketing manager Peter Tyson confirms the company is in the middle of negotiations to place creative and media buying centrally for the first time . |
| 12 | I have seen enough to believe that the materials , over time , will prove to be of real help to teachers trying to solve their own problems by enabling them to see what support there is in the sharing of difficulties and by strengthening the belief that efficient discussion can lead to effective action . |
| 13 | While Parsons maintains a special epistemological prerogative for science , his interest is in the operation of Values ' in the field of knowledge . |
| 14 | One obvious example of such changes is in the teaching of languages . |
| 15 | It is in the people , it is causing breast cancer , it is in the milk of cows , and it is in the rivers at 1,000 times background levels . |
| 16 | In both cases the idea of purpose is only a metaphor , but we have already seen what a fruitful metaphor it is in the case of genes . |
| 17 | The manner in which these principles of linguistic organisation are involved in the real-time learning of languages — whether it is in the case of children learning their native languages , or adults learning second languages — raises many important questions about the way that innate principles and actual experience of language interact to produce the competence that speakers have in the languages they speak . |
| 18 | In condemning such acts of desecration , I am of the opinion that the only exception that could be made is in the case of books already seriously incomplete and in bad condition , when the completion of its unhappy disintegration may be forgivable . |
| 19 | They 're peeved that Jesus is in the company of sinners . |
| 20 | The major part of her work is in the instruction of learners . |
| 21 | The homeward return time at Dover is in the afternoon on Thursdays . |
| 22 | There is one area in which costing systems can do no more than provide the raw data , and that is in the treatment of overruns , variations and claims , which can often only be quantified by a detailed interpretation of the data recorded in the system . |
| 23 | An example of this is in the treatment of tumours . |
| 24 | Rocky is in the squad for tomorrows match . |
| 25 | Strachan is in the squad with rumours of being on the bench and Pemberton is being given his debut cos Jon Newsome is still out . |
| 26 | It is in the exercise of freedoms that we become aware of attracting obligations . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ It is in the nature of youngsters to try things . |
| 28 | That is in the nature of things . |
| 29 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |
| 30 | Because the sceptic is in the nature of things , if he 's really consistent and systematic , committed to tolerating , well , all these other opinions , to tolerating all sorts of preposterous absurdities and monstrous attitudes . |