Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many statutes can already be summoned up on a video screen at the touch of a few buttons , and complete coverage is in the offing ; but , since the use of these computerised systems is expensive , the old-fashioned methods will long be with us . |
| 2 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 3 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 4 | Much of Piffetti 's work is still to be found in the royal palaces of Turin , but several superb pieces , including two exquisite pedestals , drifted off to the Quirinal in Rome , and an altar-frontal of unbelievable complexity is in the Vatican . |
| 5 | And in a week when European unity is in the spotlight , Sir Claus told the conference at Bruges in Belgium : ‘ We remain , sad to say , probably the most divisive society in advanced Europe . |
| 6 | Apart from the storage of two instructions to a word , the only extension to our rudimentary computer is in the provision of a second storage device or register in the data manipulation unit , the arithmetic register AR , used in conjunction with the accumulator for multiplication and division ; the need for such a register is discussed in 2.1 . |
| 7 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 8 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 9 | An area of particular weakness in British industry is in the sales and marketing function . |
| 10 | The , the er , single regeneration agency is taking on board the issues of things like derelict land and a number of other ways in which , for example English partnership is in the regeneration industry , and a number of other ways in which the , the government have acted to , to try to make things happen . |
| 11 | Originally , projections for West German investment were in the range of DM120 billion ; actual investment has been only DM13 million . |
| 12 | By her fireside there was a settee and a table , ‘ and old granny was in the corner . |
| 13 | The summit of this very steep grade was in the tunnel and once out of it engines would shut off to get their breath back . |
| 14 | You know , the one whose driving-licence picture was in the paper , she 'd been shot , was n't she asking about the Schickerts ? |
| 15 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 16 | Well the proper place is in the cupboard . |
| 17 | Articulate women , anxious to lead purposeful lives , found it impossible to dismiss the idea , supported as it was by scientific theories of sexual difference , that their proper place was in the home . |
| 18 | Class divisions hitherto non-existent or only latent in English society were beginning to open up as the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions gained momentum , and popular unrest was in the air . |
| 19 | Political and social revolution was in the air and Koreans of all political persuasions longed for unity . |
| 20 | Historical knowledge is in the end indivisible , even if the multiplication of specialisms seem to subdivide it into separate spheres . |
| 21 | To some extent what constitutes a helpful and what constitutes an unhelpful behaviour is in the eye of the beholder ( see Customer satisfaction on page 46 ) . |
| 22 | The highest rate of suburban development was in the cities of the North-East . |
| 23 | Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions . |
| 24 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 25 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 26 | However , it is clear that , as discussed above , an express warranty is in the interests of both parties , so that , provided the guarantee grants what can be regarded as a reasonable remedy under the particular circumstances of the contract , no problems under s 3 of the UCTA should arise . |
| 27 | Earlier discussion of the statistical behaviour of extreme values in the tails of distributions has shown that they are unreliable predictors of the behaviour of large samples , and if the core set of journals for Scottish geology is in the tail , then extreme caution must be used in interpreting SCI data , particularly from the early theses in the present study . |
| 28 | British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high . |
| 29 | And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state . |
| 30 | Old Ape was in the shadows at the back , Mrs Stead-Carter looked impatient at the front . |