Example sentences of "[vb infin] be in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't like being in a position of ignorance on any subject , and started probing . |
| 2 | I can remember being in a cell , locked in , with nobody else but myself , crying , and a screw opening the hatch on the door and saying , ‘ What 's the matter with you ? |
| 3 | Er , only four can remember being in a church . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you mind being in a Church that does n't believe in God ? ’ asked Betty . |
| 5 | We would envisage being in a position to despatch the sales documentation by the end of four to six weeks . |
| 6 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 7 | Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry . |
| 8 | He could have been in a hotel , had he not needed care and supervision which he blatantly did not get . |
| 9 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 10 | These galleries face North , and , as Ms E. Little explains in her book , Chronicles of Patterdale , they would have been in a good position beside the early road to attract the attention of the wool clothiers and their servants , the broggers , passing by on horseback in search of stock . |
| 11 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have been in a hurry to come out without your coat ; you 'll feel the chill afore the night 's out . ’ |
| 13 | I think she must have been in a state of shock . |
| 14 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 15 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 16 | As for the House of Mattli , it might have been in a different world to the hostel , with its air of being a cross between a workhouse and a boarding school . |
| 17 | The house , their chamber , the food were arranged to perfection , and after the brutish clangour of Famagusta they should have been in a state of bewildered gratitude . |
| 18 | ‘ You must have been in a bad way . |
| 19 | Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months . |
| 20 | Her presence in the workhouse in itself seems an odd occurrence ; it was hardly as if she had no-one to turn to — any one of her brothers must have been in a position to help when help was needed . |
| 21 | He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him . |
| 22 | His shop would have been in a back street , probably in a run-down part of the town , amongst the dwellings of those whom he catered for ; indeed , Sowerberry himself was only just above the bread-line . |
| 23 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 24 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 25 | His business contacts were being checked , but it seemed unlikely to Azadi that any of them would have been in a position to spirit the shipowner away at a moment 's notice . |
| 26 | Jesus would hardly have been in a position to carry out this miracle of healing . |
| 27 | Oh , it must have been in a fight , sir . |
| 28 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 29 | In this book , that means more analytical and less narrative material than there would have been in a book written half a century ago . |
| 30 | Ostensibly more compelling is the argument that if British manufacturing industry had matched insurance , banking , and allied financial services , in terms of international competitiveness , the economy would have been in a very healthy state indeed . |