Example sentences of "be in [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 2 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 4 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 5 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 6 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 7 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 8 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 9 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 10 | If you do not understand the standards or are in doubt about how the general principles or rules of conduct might apply in specific circumstances , you must ask your manager for clarification . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm in love with wherever the business is . |
| 12 | Yet , as with declarations , such utterances will only be perceived as orders if certain conditions are in operation and known to be in operation by both the sender and the receiver . |
| 13 | Police believe she will be in hospital for about a week . |
| 14 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 15 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 16 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 17 | SyQuest Technology Inc , Fremont , California has had enough of French start-up Nomai SA and has started legal proceedings in Paris to stop the sale of what it claims are illegal copies of SyQuest removable Winchester disk cartridges and to obtain other legal relief : the complaint was filed before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ; it already has an injunction against the company in the US , but Nomai has continued to ship its cartridges outside the US , which SyQuest believes is in violation of both the original temporary restraining and subsequent stipulated order . |
| 18 | In week 4 she was in bed by 8pm every night except one , when she was allowed up for a special event . |
| 19 | She was in depression for about a year . |
| 20 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 21 | Mr Reynolds however was in hospital for over a week before having an operation to remove a carcinoma from his bowel . |
| 22 | She was in hospital for almost a year and now lives with her son in an adapted bungalow for disabled people run by social services in Gwent . |