Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [modal v] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all the sniggering and playing up of our away record , you might have though SOME mention might have been in order ? ? |
| 2 | Some fairy must have been in love with your father . |
| 3 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
| 4 | A couple of years ago this crowd would have been in Ralph Lauren from head to toe , but today there 's a mixture of Guess , Nautica , Tommy Hilfiger ( ‘ Tommy got the colours ’ ) , Fila and even Duck Head , an obscure Southern prep-wear firm . |
| 5 | If , upon hearing of the manifest truth of the work of art or of the textual , fictional character of the world , the reader will let a knowing smile play upon his face where previously he maintained an attitude of high seriousness , then the aim of this book will have been in part achieved . |
| 6 | I have been most concerned by reports that some students may have been in temporary difficulty at the start of the current term because their grant cheques have not arrived from certain authorities . |
| 7 | ‘ That boy could have been in my company or squadron . |
| 8 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
| 9 | A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done . |
| 10 | However successful these policies may have been in the fifties we have , I believe , convincing evidence that they have failed since the world-wide inflation which started with the mismanagement of the finances raised to pay for the Vietnam War . |
| 11 | Where all these views would concur is in saying that on the track Niki was as much the natural successor to Jackie Stewart as Alain Prost is the natural successor to Lauda . |
| 12 | These vessels could have been in use from any time from c . |
| 13 | Since these experiences will have been in the schools in which the workshop teachers teach , it is obvious that there will be a great deal of sharing of ideas before the actual presentations and their subsequent discussions take place . |
| 14 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 15 | We are all aware that streams dry up , valleys fill with silt ( Fig. 3 ) , and that changes can occur along the coast , but we perhaps underestimate how great these changes may have been in the last 1000 years . |
| 16 | These developments may have been in keeping with the new vision of Empire , but they did nothing to keep alive the Christian symbolism of death as the gateway to life . |
| 17 | The windows were also provided with louvred shutters which could be removed and stored when not in use ; these shutters may have been in place at the time of capture . |
| 18 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 19 | That train must have been in ever so early . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 21 | Those Belgians must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time , and they probably saw something they should n't have seen , so someone shut them up for good . |
| 22 | Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that . |
| 23 | Most of the people who were in the street at that time would have been in one or other of the pubs , but do n't forget that the harbour is full of craft of all sorts and there are sure to have been people aboard some of them . ’ |