Example sentences of "[adv] [be] in [det] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Please , you can not be in such a rush .
32 If we did that , there would be much less of a problem and we would not be in such deep water with the European Commission .
33 Perhaps these people feel , as do members of the local communities , that the coastline would not be in such urgent need of ‘ protection ’ were it not for the imminent threat of creation of a housing development , larger than the existing village of Dirleton , adjacent to it .
34 And this normally will not be in some remote centralised corporate planning department .
35 As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday .
36 Highly intelligent and academically minded children should not be in this school …
37 Many firms will not be in this fortunate position and will have to be very careful in determining their prices if they are to avoid losses and possible bankruptcy .
38 ( If she were alive now , Lily thought , I would not be in this sorry mess … )
39 We might not be in this situation now .
40 ‘ We have looked at the situation carefully , ’ a spokeswoman said , ‘ and we are confident that our clients will not be in any danger . ’
41 Leave the haggling over the price to your agent and take his advice on the final choice of buyer , who should be well advanced in his own sale ; but do not be in any hurry to settle the matter without at least sleeping on it and allowing for second thoughts all round .
42 It can not be in any sense hierarchical .
43 Consideration of these facts should be enough to alert us to the possibility that the totality of our being may be much more than just the physical body , and that we may not be in any sense only machines .
44 She desired that the legacy should not be in any way altered by the pope nor any other person .
45 This absolute privilege is founded on the principle that it is advantageous for the public interest that the citizen should not be in any way fettered in his statements , and where the public service or due administration of justice is involved he shall have the right to speak his mind freely …
46 Mere respect for the memory and wishes of a testator can not be in any way construed as such .
47 That can not be in any of our interests , especially at this time .
48 for this reason , pre-ordering of relations ( strictly , tuples need not be in any pre-defined order in the relational model ) and the use of indexes to increase speeds of particular accesses , are both options in many DBMS to improve their overall performance .
49 will not be in any way shape or form detrimental
50 I have the feeling that if oil supplies were somehow caught up in the Yugoslavian position , an armed intervention force would already be in that country .
51 Something about Kwiksave not being in these supermarkets
52 ( 7 ) A transfer of a licence under subsection ( 1 ) above is in this Act referred to as a permanent transfer .
53 ‘ Who exactly is in this aircraft ? ’ asked Rachel as they waited , the tension mounting .
54 Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world .
55 We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal , and still are in many societies .
56 We still are in some necessity of joiners and coopers and any trades ; for the rest , we are buying slaves from the same merchants who put in to anchor here and take on our water and our salt .
57 Until about four years ago the return was produced by hand ( and its equivalents still are in some areas ) , a time consuming and laborious job .
58 Early models of the cosmos were based on concentric spheres ( they still are in most minds ) .
59 Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition .
60 ceremony I ever been in all my life !
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