Example sentences of "the [adj] [be] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly a quarter of the forty were in unskilled factory jobs and over a third have done typing or general office work . |
| 2 | The second was in another bin beside the Argos showroom two doors away . |
| 3 | The novels of the 1840s are in this respect a total contrast . |
| 4 | The latter is in some cases subject to statutory regulation , in others it is a matter of local discretion . |
| 5 | The latter are in some sense ‘ given ’ to individuals in the act of observing , but there is no straightforward step from those private experiences ( which will depend on factors peculiar to each individual observer such as his expectations , prior knowledge , etc. ) to an observation statement that is meant to describe the observed situation . |
| 6 | The distinction between public law and private law interests seems to rest on the assumption that the latter are in some way more important and more worthy of protection than the former . |
| 7 | The larger holds 40 micros , the smaller is in temporary use as a workshop but will eventually hold 20 micros . |
| 8 | There are seven missions in total and the first is in two parts . |
| 9 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 10 | Both nave and aisles continue the same quadripartite vault , though the former is in square bays and the latter rectangular . |
| 11 | Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames . |
| 12 | The two are in internal relation to one another : views of design imply notions as to what design is socially and vice versa . |
| 13 | It needs to be kept in mind , by both science and philosophy , that the concerns of the two are in large part different . |
| 14 | The two do not always go together and experts who combine the two are in short supply . |
| 15 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 16 | The sixties were in full swing and we all lived , whether we like it or not , in a permissive society . |
| 17 | The insensitivity of the Benthamites , who promoted the Act , lay in their refusal to see how bitterly the poor would resent becoming the designated victims of the Act , as if their love for the dead were in some way inferior to that of ‘ their betters ’ . |
| 18 | But now that the Nineties are in full swing , has anyone out there discovered that the phones have stopped jangling , their Filofax is miraculously blank , or the traffic clogging our roads has withered to a trickle ? |