Example sentences of "[vb infin] be in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I , I , it 's unfortunate that you had your first I mean someone who had no experience of headmastership , head , head teachers , I mean all the head teachers I should think are in financial problems this year cos it 's really there first full year |
| 2 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 3 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 4 | A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence . |
| 5 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 6 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'm convinced they wo n't be as confident about coming to Irvinestown as they would have been in previous seasons . |
| 8 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |