Example sentences of "[be] in [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to this , Littlewoods 's latest high street venture , the Index catalogue stores , are in markets sensitive to recession and high mortgage rates . |
| 2 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 3 | It is freezing cold and here we are in lessons ready to get completely bored by our headmaster Mr Jimmy |
| 4 | These signs need to be in languages other than English if appropriate . |
| 5 | Erm beyond two thousand and six , I would have thought the strategic guidance would be in locations other than peripheral expansion around the Greater York area , which I would have suggested would would more than likely be to new settlements . |
| 6 | If ‘ competence ’ is to be usefully specified it must initially be in terms current amongst police . |
| 7 | Sir John , his niece , and some other ladies staying there , Lady F. thought it would be less lonely for me being in lodgings solitary … ’ |
| 8 | As Fig. 7.1 illustrates , the greatest risk of desertification is in areas adjacent to the world 's hot hyper-arid zones , and include rain-fed croplands , irrigated lands and rangelands . |
| 9 | The infamous Malleus Maleficarum — a document produced by two Dominican monks who were appointed by Pope Innocent VIII in 1484 to investigate and stamp out witchcraft — states that ‘ all witchcraft comes from carnal lust , which is in women insatiable ’ . |
| 10 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 11 | As regards the political system established in Western Europe , based on representative political institutions — parliament , political and philosophical pluralism , the theory of the separation of powers , decentralization , human rights , etc. — that system is in essentials valid and it will be still more effective with a socialist , and not a capitalist , economic foundation . |
| 12 | Something of the kind seems to have happened in the case of the European communist parties ; thus Santiago Carrillo ( 1977 ) , in the passage quoted earlier , says plainly that ‘ the political system established in Western Europe … is in essentials valid ’ , and this is far removed from the outlook of some earlier Marxists — and of the members of a few left-wing groupuscules even today — who talk about ‘ smashing the bourgeois state ’ . |
| 13 | They know every track and ledge in the slag ; know how the rain has carved it into gulleys where now the snow lies deep as a crevasse ; know how the surface of the slag is in parts rotten as scree , an in others as hard as iron . |
| 14 | Accommodation on Fregate was in chalets thatched with palm leaves and situated on the top of the beach so that at high tide you could almost jump into the sea from your window . |
| 15 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |