Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [verb] [be] in " in BNC.
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1 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
2 | So far , I have discussed the hunting economy purely as an immediate-return one , and such indeed it is in central Australia and must have been in the case of the first hunters . |
3 | Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain . |
4 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
5 | Though Lancashire are far below full strength , Grayson has earned his place on merit having captained the powerful North Under-21s to the ADT divisional age-group title and would have been in the side even had the Orrell contingent been available , Martin Strett being ineligible having represented the Northern Division in October . |
6 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
7 | Top seed Seles , who has three Grand Slam titles among her nine tournament victories this year , finished off the 14th-ranked Tauziat in 50 minutes , and would have been in the locker room even sooner but for a lapse in concentration during the second set . |
8 | If this be correct , then one would say that a refusal by the House of Lords to exercise any mandatory Gallagher jurisdiction to dispose of B 's undetermined arguments would have denied him his right to a judgment and would have been in violation of the terms of Article 6 . |
9 | 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 . |