Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forests surrounding the city are being rapidly felled for fuelwood , and 80 per cent of them are in a severely depleted state . |
| 2 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 3 | I turn to the next document on the tag and suddenly I am in a quite different and entirely familiar landscape of calm , double-spaced , wide-margined , cleanly typed Government A4 . |
| 4 | It is , of course , no consolation for you to know that I am in an equally awkward situation . ’ |
| 5 | It means I 'm in a rather difficult position — the department 's under pressure to make cuts , and I have n't got tenure . |
| 6 | I 'm in a very difficult , painful situation . ’ |
| 7 | Yours is in a right fucking state . |
| 8 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 9 | Well that would imply that I was in a pretty bad way and normally would n't do |
| 10 | Mum noticed I was in a rather strange mood . |
| 11 | To be absolutely honest , I was in a rather awkward position . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm afraid that when Alexander tapped on my study door I was in a rather abstracted state . |
| 13 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
| 14 | I was in a terribly difficult position because the two girls wanted me to choose between them . |
| 15 | I earned quite a lot of money though so Oh I was in a really good mood , I woke up this morning in a really good mood , so I kind of danced into work |
| 16 | I was in a really bad mood at school . |
| 17 | I saw he had been drinking , and I knew I was in a very dangerous situation . |
| 18 | I was in a very black and negative mood , I remember , and waited for the trapeze artists to fall and kill themselves , for the female contortionist to twist herself into such a knot of meat that she would never get disentangled . |
| 19 | I was in a very big , high hall . |
| 20 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 21 | Although you are in a seemingly hopeless situation , keep thinking and get your priorities right . |
| 22 | ‘ If you are in a very competitive situation it may cause you to think very carefully about what you are doing , ’ he says . |
| 23 | If you are in a very senior class you may , of course , be introduced to new research material , but the presentation will then be quite different . |
| 24 | It 's better to get comfortable with the approach in a situation where you are confident , like a weekly meeting , than suddenly to try and implement it when you are in a more testing situation , like an important sales presentation . |
| 25 | It is up to you , either to take it and go away , or go away and return when you are in a less deceitful frame of mind . |
| 26 | Here you are in an altogether different situation from Ruth Rendell writing her crime novels and saying cheerfully that she avoids errors in describing police work " by leaving it out " . |
| 27 | ‘ I realise you 're in a very difficult position . |
| 28 | " Nenna , I know all your intonations as well as I know my own , and I can tell that you 're in a very bad state . |
| 29 | If you 're in a very distressed state you ca n't take . |
| 30 | ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door . |