Example sentences of "[adj] of [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt only too conscious of being in a cinema , on a seat with a broken spring , inhaling rank , second-hand air , his eyes smarting from cigarette-smoke , and his head throbbing with the heat . |
| 2 | Charlie might have quite enjoyed the lesson if Trentham had n't left the impression that none of them was worthy of being in the same regiment as himself . |
| 3 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 4 | This time he would take Eliza with him all the way to her brother 's homestead at Yarrundi , so he could be sure of being in the area for at least three months . |
| 5 | I 'm tired of being in the public eye . |
| 6 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 7 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 8 | Could a ship of any size — I mean , a ship capable of being in Bilbao now — get to the place ? " |
| 9 | Each location must be capable of being in one of a discrete number of states . |
| 10 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 11 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |