Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The idea came from speaking to businessmen who had missed important meetings after being stuck in a cab in heavy traffic , ’ says Cave . |
| 2 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 3 | There was a terrible fear of Being Different in those two houses . |
| 4 | And if Sam Snort hails ‘ Doyler as monumental ’ is he , perhaps , erring on the side of being excessive in his praise ? |
| 5 | The original effect of being rich in figure 13.2 ( +0.144 ) was spuriously high ; it was a product of the fact that young people are more likely to be rich and young people are also more likely to contemplate breaking the law . |
| 6 | Unlike modernist works that give the illusion of being autonomous in their surroundings , and which function critically only in relation to the language of their own tradition , site-specific works emphasise the comparison between two separate languages . |
| 7 | The horse will misjudge situations , whether they be real or imagined dangers , and be too easily distracted and lacking in concentration to be reliable in competitive or pleasure riding . |
| 8 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 9 | Joseph expects the department to be involved in advocates ' training , ‘ to ensure they understand procedures and what child protection means . |
| 10 | Certain public transactions , notably where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , require funds to be available in a specific currency at a specific time and place . |
| 11 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |
| 12 | New instructions this year are encouraging umpires to be strict in their interpretation of what constitutes a shot when playing against the spinners . |
| 13 | This concern should focus first on understanding ‘ how it is possible ’ for corporate crime to be endemic in our ‘ law and order ’ society , and second , and hopefully flowing from this understanding , ‘ how can it be contained or regulated ? ’ |
| 14 | I believe there are enough pictures to represent this School adequately in three collections , as I would naturally expect the best of post-World War I British pictures to be present in the new Modern Art Museum . |
| 15 | It is expected that the wording will be well received by its current and future policyholders and does enable NCM to be flexible in its approach to domestic credit underwriting . |
| 16 | The survey found that everyone , expected I B M to be involved in corporate social responsibility programmes , but not everyone knew what our programmes were . |
| 17 | By gel retardation analysis we have found this protein to be present in rat tissue extract but we have failed to demonstrate substantial binding to this region in a number of cell lines including HeLa . |
| 18 | These results are consistent with the findings of Chowdhury and Kreitman ( 1971 ) , and Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973a ) , who found attempted suicide patients and Samaritan clients to be different in many respects — the Samaritan clients , for example , including a greater proportion of men , and more socially isolated individuals . |
| 19 | It is very important for the horse to be comfortable in his mouth or he will soon seek evasions of the bit . |
| 20 | John is always fair to the horse he is training , but expects the horse to be fair in return … as Skipper found out . |
| 21 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | gives me pleasure to be involved in the nomination for the office of Lord April 1992 for s Councillor . |
| 23 | Those constructing future policies and principles should strive to make them exemplary in this regard , not least because of the encouragement this will give to schools to be rigorous in their own thinking . |
| 24 | Thus Lautro is under a duty not merely at common law but by statute to be fair in these respects towards its members . |
| 25 | Keeping a diary is a time-consuming activity but you can keep it within manageable bounds by being selective in the events you record . |
| 26 | ‘ It was part of being involved in university life . |
| 27 | Plant proteins also have the advantage of being low in fat and high in fibre . |
| 28 | Ready stiffened and spongeable fabrics especially made for roller blinds can be bought by the metre , and have the additional advantage of being available in widths up to 175cm ( 69in ) , making joins unnecessary except on the widest of windows . |
| 29 | The concrete pool still has its adherents and rightly so , for a properly laid concrete pool is as good as any other and has the added advantage of being flexible in design . |
| 30 | He accused the Ministry of Defence of being involved in a cover-up . |