Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] be [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subjection of seamen to Marine Boards in the north-east , where crimping was less in evidence than in London or Liverpool , was to treat them like " a parcel of Mexican slaves " . |
| 2 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 3 | They pick on an accountant because an accountant needs a good name and has been partly in control of the funds anyway . |
| 4 | Harrer 's original story was published in 1959 , and has been continually in print ever since — something of a rarity for a climbing book . |
| 5 | But this view was rather hard upon farmers with crops adjacent to a railway line and a compromise was effected by the Railway Fires Acts 1905 and 1923 , which cast upon railways a liability not exceeding £200 , even if the total damage claimed and done is much in excess , for damage caused to agricultural land or agricultural crops by fire arising from the emission of sparks or cinders from their locomotives , although the locomotive was used under statutory powers . |
| 6 | It recognises , however , that the way in which this is achieved and experienced is precisely in the individualised form which Marx recognised . |
| 7 | He had started to caress her and had been enough in control to ask questions . |
| 8 | But Fergie might be reluctant to release one of his English midfield players while United are still in the UEFA Cup . |
| 9 | Such relaxation of state monopoly control of telecommunications as occurred was mainly in ‘ communications ’ areas lying between telecoms and computers . |