Example sentences of "it [be] in [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strikers , protesting against the threat of compulsory redundancies , gave leaflets to customers looking at the Mondeo on its promotion day , pointing out that many of the skills which went into it were in danger of being wiped out . |
| 2 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 3 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 4 | Although the three earlier poems had been highly praised and widely read — their reception , Hayward told Frank Morley , had boosted Eliot 's reputation at a time when it was in danger of being obscured by younger poets — he was unable to finish the sequence . |
| 5 | These books played a part in establishing a sense of historical continuity in the feminist movement , and they helped to rescue the constitutionalist women 's suffrage movement from the oblivion to which it was in danger of being consigned by the more flamboyant reputation of Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v . ] . |