Example sentences of "[be] in a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I can turn to the balance sheet , it 's a little more complicated , we 're in a rather odd position at the thirtieth of June of incorporating the Thames er , balance sheet because our offer went unconditional . |
| 2 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 3 | But I need to say something about the investment advisors because they 're in a slightly different er they come here in a slightly different capacity to other speakers . |
| 4 | they 're in a very good position . |
| 5 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 6 | You 're only free because the King knows we 're in a very dangerous situation . ’ |
| 7 | I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly . |
| 8 | " Nenna , I know all your intonations as well as I know my own , and I can tell that you 're in a very bad state . |
| 9 | ‘ I realise you 're in a very difficult position . |
| 10 | If you 're in a very distressed state you ca n't take . |
| 11 | ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door . |
| 12 | But if they 're in a real central position they ca n't be out in the country |
| 13 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
| 14 | You 're in a , you 're in a permanently heated house love . |
| 15 | I think you 'll agree you 're in a much stronger position that if you left it for months , and then went back . |
| 16 | EC Commissioner Henning Christophersen said the five-year loan was highly exceptional , ‘ but then we 're in a highly exceptional situation ’ . |
| 17 | EC Commissioner Henning Christophersen said the five-year loan was highly exceptional , ‘ but then we 're in a highly exceptional situation ’ . |
| 18 | But from the point of the people in that position , they 're in a dilemma , they 're in an extremely weak position . |
| 19 | Indeed I am always immensely flattered when somebody a long way down our hierarchy rings me up and asks me to do something which they believe I am in a particularly good position to do . |
| 20 | I turn to the next document on the tag and suddenly I am in a quite different and entirely familiar landscape of calm , double-spaced , wide-margined , cleanly typed Government A4 . |
| 21 | It is , of course , no consolation for you to know that I am in an equally awkward situation . ’ |
| 22 | The Irish Lions selector , Ken Reid , who arrived yesterday in Edinburgh for a selectors meeting , must have been in a reasonably good frame of mind after Saturday 's contest . |
| 23 | Until then , newspaper coverage of the Royal Family had been in a fairly lengthy decline . |
| 24 | And I must have been in a really funny mood , and I said yes we have it 's on the till and he went well I suggest you get them in the windows then ! |
| 25 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |
| 26 | Six years ago , Chambers had been in a very small way of trade , on the outer fringe of the dozens of banks that belonged to the London Clearing House . |
| 27 | I had n't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 30 | However , if that election had been fought under some system of proportional representation then the Conservatives would have had a majority over Labour but would have been in a very substantial overall minority since the Liberals and Social Democrats would have held 160 or so seats . |