Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [be] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Above all , where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers .
2 Where ideologies are in conflict , the appeal to the imagined community of the nation appears to have defeated all challengers .
3 The research addresses the issue of why fertility is still high under conditions of population pressure on resources in as area of Kano State in Northern Nigeria , where densities are in excess of 250 per square mile , soil fertility is poor , and rainfall levels are falling .
4 West Country Living : Now 's the time to take the plunge at the water 's edge The property price fall is worst of all where waves are in view , Marcus Palliser finds
5 ) For determining whether fees or reimbursements are in accordance with legal , grant , or contractual requirements .
6 There is little exciting news from German publishers on the whole ; no experiments or adventures are in sight .
7 Similar provisions are contained in the Act to govern secondary action aimed at disruption of supply between any person and an associated employer of the employer party to the dispute where the goods or services are in substitution for goods or services which but for the dispute would have fallen to be supplied to or by the employer who is party to the dispute .
8 Other protests were reported during October and November in Xigazê , Gyangzê and Zêtang , where restrictions were in force .
9 School records or reports were in use in thirty-two authorities , with thirty-nine more hoping to introduce them soon .
10 It may also reflect a deep-seated concern in society that values are in decline , and that schools are the place to start doing something about it .
11 We have had early notification from Sam Morley of Aedificamus Press that plans are in hand to publish this excellent book , the autobiography of Perla Seidle Gibson , as a Talking Book .
12 This can lead to an excessively narrow view of international law , unless we remember that states are in reality agglomerations of people .
13 The Silmarillion accordingly expresses more than once the theory that orcs were in fact captured elves ‘ by slow acts of cruelty … corrupted and enslaved ’ ( S , p. 50 ) .
14 Do n't forget , too , that teeth are in danger from all the sugars that everyday foods and drinks contain .
15 There is ample literary and pictorial evidence to suggest that rugs were in use from the 12th century onwards , but it is not clear whether these were Chinese in origin or imported from abroad .
16 But such a procedure would simply have led to the conclusion that the investigator had failed to elicit environments where the variable could be studied , and would miss the point that speakers were in fact making use of an entirely different range of choices to express stylistic differences .
17 Everyone , after all , knows that conservatives are in love with the past : everyone expects it .
18 It says youths have also thrown stones and bottles , and that lives were in danger .
19 Initially it was suggested that it was impossible , and that quasars were in fact relatively nearby objects , their large speeds of retreat arising because , perhaps , they were being spat out by our Galaxy in some unknown way .
20 FoE says that alternatives are in use and existing stocks will be adequate well past the year 2000 , when the Montreal Protocol requires an end to their use .
21 In September , the Executive asked to meet Bonar Law to discuss the subject , now that Unionists were in government , but Law refused any outside discussion until the cabinet had made up its mind .
22 In order that managers are in control of their budgets they need to know how much of that budget has already been committed in terms of the orders issued .
23 He will also be aware that arrangements are in place for the liquidators to aid banks in their assessment of applications made by small businesses and personal customers for alternative facilities .
24 The grammatical similarity of this to talk of a person feeling , say a pin in his foot might lead one to suppose that pains are in parts of one 's body in the same way as pins , wounds and broken bones , are in parts of one 's body ; that is , that they differ from these latter only in being invisible , intangible , and so on : they are the proper objects of the sense of pain .
25 Indeed , as we have seen elsewhere , Public Choice Theory is based upon the premise that bureaucrats are in competition with each other to expand their budgets .
26 And last , but not least , centres must ensure that procedures are in place to allow those staff who are teaching the same module to talk to each other so that internal standardisation — essential in a devolved system such as National Certificate — can take place .
27 No doubt this is what Vernon and Fruin ( 1986 ) are referring to when they characterise the outlook of fieldworkers , once children are in care , as one of ‘ wait and see ’ .
28 On Feb. 3 Pope John Paul II declared that combatants were in breach of the commandment " that thou shalt not kill , which applies to every man and obliges every man " ; his support helped mobilize Italian Catholics into a peace movement on a scale which caused surprise and unease among Western leaders .
29 The public will not be reconciled to compassion and rehabilitation until they are confident that criminals are in fact being caught and punished .
30 Several M.P.s argued that men were in need of protection in certain sexual situations and that Morgan and Clause 1 were necessary in order to provide it .
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