Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb mod] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Judge said the gang may have been in a state of panic , but the police were unarmed and it was miracle they were n't seriously injured . |
| 2 | Imagine what the result would have been in Salomon 's case if the company created was one of unlimited liability : all the members would have been personally liable for the debts owned by the company to the creditors . |
| 3 | I dread to think where the pound would have been in the past few days if I had followed the advice of Opposition Members . |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't be absolutely sure of the sequence of events but the victim was hit from behind and fell against the door leading into the garage , so the killer must have been in the house . |
| 5 | Carr , who went the distance with Wharton last time , protested about the stoppage , after 2min 7sec of the eighth round , but if referee Dave Parris had allowed the fight to continue the Australian could have been in serious trouble . |
| 6 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 7 | Sheila and John think the burglar must have been in the house when they returned from a night out . |
| 8 | The marriage must have been in trouble even then , he thought , and he had n't known . |
| 9 | By the next general election ( say 1 991 ) the Conservatives will have been in office for sixteen of the twenty-one years since 1970 . |
| 10 | The seller must have been in possession of the goods or documents of title . |
| 11 | Police believe the body may have been in the field for several weeks and they 're still investigating the cause of death . |
| 12 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 13 | But this view is probably due to our imperfect knowledge of the remains of this period in East Anglia , bearing in mind , too , that with the shortage of good building stone most of the buildings would have been in timber , the excavation and interpretation of which has only recently become a normal archaeological technique . |
| 14 | ‘ The Ariadne could have been in error . ’ |
| 15 | However , as I have said , by the time the case was before us W. 's condition had changed so drastically that , whatever may have been the previous position , the court would have been in dereliction of its duty had it not overridden W. 's wishes and effectively confirmed the order made by Thorpe J. that W. should be treated at the specialist London unit . |
| 16 | The stress may have been in the wrong place . |
| 17 | The beneficiarii might have been in charge of its annual assessment according to the quantity of the harvest , its collection and safe storage at some central point and its distribution to wherever it was needed . |
| 18 | It can , therefore , be seen that the first test which the pursuer must meet is in relation to liability . |
| 19 | ‘ The corpses must have been in the marsh for days , even weeks . |
| 20 | Ostensibly more compelling is the argument that if British manufacturing industry had matched insurance , banking , and allied financial services , in terms of international competitiveness , the economy would have been in a very healthy state indeed . |
| 21 | The student will have been in close contact with the patient while carrying out nursing care , and will have observed the patient 's progress . |
| 22 | The only influence really the woman might have is in the love and affection level of operating , and it 's a very unfair power battle and that is , in fact , what it turns into . |
| 23 | Such terms were scarcely to Edward 's liking , but he confirmed the treaty on 13 June , and in a fatal misjudgement , for which the Despensers may have been in part responsible , Edward agreed to allow his son Prince Edward , now aged eleven , to go to France in his place to do homage . |
| 24 | In the present case the jury could have been in no doubt where the burden of proof lay . |
| 25 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 26 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 27 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 28 | ‘ The doctor must have been in league with Nigel , ’ Jacqui insisted truculently . |
| 29 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 30 | The book should have been in Tollemarche 's only bookstore for several weeks ; however , when Hank casually sauntered in and asked for a copy , old Mr Pascall said it had not arrived . |