Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | when some security staff are located outside the hotel , they may need to be in constant communication with their colleagues inside the building , in order to verify that people arriving are bona fide guests , for example . |
| 2 | That was the only objection made to site D thirty nine , er that it should be The objection was that it should shown to be in the greenbelt . |
| 3 | I was able to arrange that U Khin Zaw , working in the Burmese section of the BBC , should return to be in charge of broadcasting , and in the meantime to ensure that he got some experience of the drama , music and talks departments . |
| 4 | To a casual observer water on a surface may appear to be in complete contact with it . |
| 5 | In some cases they may appear to be in conflict . |
| 6 | Advances in technology mean that desktop publishing machines are now available which can reproduce precise legitimate invoices and estimates which may appear to be in order . |
| 7 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 8 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 9 | So for the first activity you 'll need to be in twos or threes . |
| 10 | He 'll need to be in an incubator for a while , just as a precautionary measure . |
| 11 | I 'll have to be in the workshop finishing that brooch . |
| 12 | Why do n't you say if you 're a child you can go in a group of three , if your adults you 'll have to be in a group of two , so the children can attach themselves to any group . |
| 13 | In these cases , prevention might have to be in terms of limiting sales from chemist shops . |
| 14 | Do n't know if you 'll see it over there , I think you might have to be in the light . |
| 15 | Due to a multiplicity of problems , the ‘ proper course of action ’ was not as evident as it might seem to be in retrospect . |
| 16 | Moreover , in this particular case the justices were hearing this application on 27 January 1992 against the background which included the making of a full care order on 15 May 1991 , an order which , as I have already indicated , was made after hearing submissions by the guardian ad litem and by the local authority which might seem to be in marked distinction to the submissions being made now , only a few months later . |
| 17 | On the basis of the meanings expressed , all the uses of the to infinitive can be divided into two general types which at first sight might seem to be in direct contradiction with one another . |
| 18 | The party may claim to be in the vanguard of history , but its clock seems to have stopped in the 1950s . |
| 19 | When I faltered as the realization hit me that it was n't Mum who 'd neglected me , but I who 'd neglected Mum , Pyke said gently , ‘ I think you may like to be in my next production . ’ |
| 20 | that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that . |
| 21 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 22 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 23 | In as far as anyone could hope to be in the bitterly envious soil of the SIS , Foley was unblemished . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd hate to be in his way , or to be his enemy . |
| 25 | You 'd get off at six o'clock in the morning and you 'd have to be in court at ten o'clock . |
| 26 | You 'd have to be in your vest . |
| 27 | I 'd have to be in a grown-up panto — called something like Mother 's Goosed . |
| 28 | There 's no real I mean you 'd have to be in a real big way of a business and use a large proportion of your house for the gain on that proportion to exceed five thousand eight hundred . |
| 29 | ‘ Only Howard Baker could manage to be in the same room as God and not to notice him ! ’ cries Rayner Keat . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm a free agent and like any other driver I 'd love to be in the Williams . ’ |