Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [be] in " in BNC.

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1 The man they want to trace is in his late fifties , about five feet five to five six .
2 The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority .
3 Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) .
4 His financial interests appear to have been in land and minerals .
5 The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire .
6 This does not apply where possession of land is claimed , title to land is in question or the plaintiff claims libel , slander , malicious prosecution , false imprisonment or fraud .
7 I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class .
8 Although there is certainly no clear-cut distinction , there seem to have been in recent years two rather separate major usages of this term ( and related terms such as ‘ chief information officer ’ ; , ‘ information system ’ , ‘ information centre ’ , ‘ end user ’ , and so on ) in the literature .
9 For the next three centuries there was no further trouble within the Province of Britannia , and all the military problems were confined to the northern frontier , except that in the late second century the Brigantes seem to have been in a state of unrest , but the historical reference is far from clear .
10 They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s .
11 The origins of this reform of the services for deprived children seem to have been in a child care scandal , the O'Neill case , which led to the setting up of the Curtis Committee to investigate contemporary practice .
12 They thought in terms of a picture of the universe and of the origin of humankind ( one which we now know to have been in large part mistaken ) , and they interpreted their awareness of God in conjunction with this picture .
13 ‘ Well , they claim to have been in the Card Room all afternoon talking about the romantic poets . ’
14 ‘ All I need to know is in your demeanour .
15 Anxious to conclude the meeting , he added : ‘ Everything else you need to know is in that envelope — that includes any funds that you may require .
16 Everything you need to know is in this document . ’
17 The main problem that companies have to face is in choosing the most appropriate channel , and from the viewpoint of sales management this includes the type of sales outlet that must be serviced .
18 You have to have been in the karate the same time .
19 Well it takes you , I would , you have to have be in the army
20 Employees who refuse to move are in breach of contract and so , subject to the statutory test of reasonableness , a dismissal is likely to be fair .
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