Example sentences of "[adv] in [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 A further facet of " rationality " applied to housing design was the assumption that a house was efficient if it was small enough in size to be cleaned by one woman .
2 It is an additional fact , too important in practice to be called incidental but not necessary enough in theory to be called inevitable , that these causal arrows have become bundled up .
3 The division of labor develops as there are more individuals sufficiently in contact to be able to act and react upon one another …
4 For instance , someone who expresses her opinion of a friend 's appearance very vaguely may be suspected of doing so in order to be polite ( saving others ' face is a common motive for vagueness , untruthfulness and withholding information ) .
5 So in order to be true , Rabbit 's statement must be correlated with what in the circumstances it says it signifies ( namely honey ) .
6 The pains themselves , since he is aware of them only in order to be assured of his sovereignty , remain on the boundaries of an awareness always centred on his own reactions to them .
7 This accumulation of nonsense is expressed in dreams which are created only in order to be forgotten .
8 I rather like to think of myself as one of those old retainer figures that you find in Shakespeare , trusted servants or common soldiers , unremarkable in themselves , but loyal in their allegiances , sadly wise but powerless to prevent calamity , useful only in knowledge to be passed to others or sometimes trusted with the guardianship of a precious child , the redemptive agent of unhappy kingdoms or unhappy kings .
9 Assistance Publique 's responsibility as the community hospital system for the poor of Paris is constantly in danger of being overwhelmed by its newer role as the country 's leading provider of tertiary referral services .
10 Elected government is constantly in danger of being discredited by episodes which expose its relative impotence compared to these , great agglomerations of private and unaccountable economic power .
11 Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents :
12 This proposes , in essence , that Iraq should get out of Kuwait straightaway in return for being left alone afterwards .
13 The LTA are not in existence to be magazine publishers .
14 This meeting strongly condemns the regulations of the Food Controller , which favour the rich who are not in danger of being without food , make it possible for the wealthy to provide unscrupulous profiteers to defraud the nation by government sanction i.e. the fixing of prices for potatoes and other edibles , and therefore calls for Lord Devonport 's removal from office .
15 If the site is not in danger of being destroyed , it may be possible to raise funds to conserve the site for display , and the way the site is presented depends largely on the nature of the remains : the ruins of an Islamic mosque for example , may need the walls to be strengthened and made safe , and suitable access provided in order to view the remains .
16 And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train .
17 We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight .
18 I was just in love with being in love , you know what it 's like , I loved the image of myself being in love in that kind of careless , easy way .
19 The buildings were damaged by the fall of the campanile but rebuilt , just in time to be almost completely razed by fire .
20 The last secondary modern school in Banbury , nearly twenty years after the Act , had been established just in time to be reorganized .
21 Then a little further out blazes a great American packet ( the Roraima ) , which arrived on the scene just in time to be overwhelmed by the catastrophe .
22 James Menzies had locked up his warehouse for the day and come over in time to be included in the lengthening list .
23 Younger workers , observing this , have turned elsewhere in order to be part of a more enlightened and progressive industry .
24 Any method that involves a lone researcher in a situation that can not be repeated , like much participant observation research , is always in danger of being thought unreliable .
25 For a female story teller such as Larissa , the act of narration is therefore a risky proposition , for her story is always in danger of being labelled a ‘ hystery ’ .
26 The greenhouse effect is deeply in danger of being Branaghed largely because of the mind-numbing saturation with which it is being covered .
27 ‘ I believe you do it deliberately in order to be punished . ’
28 Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse .
29 Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned .
30 PRISONERS of Conscience Orton and Vera Chirwa , whose case was highlighted by Amnesty 's 30th Anniversary Campaign , are still in detention after being unfairly tried and jailed in 1983 for expressing their non-violent political beliefs .
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