Example sentences of "[be] [adj] in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What appears to be stable in interpretations of here ( apart from curious usages deriving from long-distance telephonic communication and long-distance travel , discussed in Lyons , 1977 ) is that the deictic centre is located where the speaker is . |
| 2 | While subsidiarity , indeed subordination , may be inherent in provisions like the new Articles 126 and 127 on education , which refer to ‘ supporting and supplementing ’ the action of Member States , and indeed in Article 2 of the Agreement on Social policy following the protocol on Social policy in the Maastricht text , which states that the Community shall ‘ support and complement the activities of the Member States ’ in certain listed fields , the continuation in force of existing legal bases for action subject to a new general requirement of subsidiarity raises fundamental legal issues , particularly as to the exclusivity of Community competence , as to the necessity for Community action and as to the appropriateness of Community action . |
| 3 | The effect that that would have on Scottish defence would be devastating in terms of procurement and the employment of people in the armed forces . |
| 4 | The unity witnessed over the two days had been greater than he could ever have hoped for , and the remaining morning 's session of ‘ rounding up ’ would , he trusted , be rich in commitments on the part of participants concerning action each would be taking before the important international conference in Switzerland . |
| 5 | Some popular TV series can be rich in examples of language functions in use , for instance , because they feature domestic situations such as shopping , entertaining , meeting new people and so on . |
| 6 | The absorption of ingested polyethylene glycols ( PEGs ) has been found to be normal in patients with active ulcerative colitis . |
| 7 | The hypothesis was that firms were decentralizing in search of reserves of labour , and probably cheaper labour since wages were likely to be lower in areas with high unemployment ( 1976 , pp. 71 — 4 , 102 ) . |
| 8 | It would move councils towards a ‘ sensible pattern of rents ’ , in which they would generally be lower in parts of the country where the value of houses and flats was lower , and higher where the values were relatively high . |
| 9 | That might just be possible in countries with zero-growth populations , but in the fecund Third World the result would be the equivalent of the ancient Saxon custom of gavelkind , in which the inheritance was divided equally among all the sons . |
| 10 | How can that possibly be cost-effective in terms of the operation of a paratroop battalion ? |
| 11 | It will be manifest in opinions about appearances , texture , smell and packaging and can sway the choice between products with comparable performance . |
| 12 | And er , although I think we encourage managers to be generous in terms of again part-time working and time off , I think our corporation , and now I go to the United States , has probably taken a more enlightened attitude than we have so far . |
| 13 | All Asian countries , with only the partial exception of Japan , will continue to be dependent in terms of the use of knowledge products . |
| 14 | For the simpler forms of drive , however , the cost of additional supply capacity may not be justifiable in terms of the limited increase in performance . |
| 15 | And also we will encounter new types of users , new erm and users will be different in terms of their erm literacy if you like . |
| 16 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 17 | " While each school will be different in terms of decision-making on computer and financial matters and different committees will exist , the mechanisms for acquiring a microcomputer and justifying its acquisition in educational terms , will be similar in all schools . |
| 18 | The freedom of creation is equally important for Coleridge ; as he remarks to his son , lying beside him , ‘ but thou , my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze ’ , is a further indication of the poet 's personal response to his own ordered Christian upbringing , and the manner in which he wants his own offspring to be free in terms of imagination , and therefore have the freedom of creative thought . |
| 19 | I realize this is probably a more extreme form of masochism , but it 'd be interesting in terms of future talent spotting . |
| 20 | They can be distinguished in terms of their the voltage at which they exhibit peak activation of their inward current . |
| 21 | A gardening magazine might be interested in advertorials on growing certain types of plant on different soils or on dealing with pests . |
| 22 | I 'd be interested in reports about any of the games played so far … not looking to good is it ! |
| 23 | Nevertheless , this searcher may well be interested in titles like " The ecology of the smaller rodents " , but these should be ranked lower than the first two . |
| 24 | For instance , a manufacturer of fitted furniture may be interested in trends for housebuilding starts , mortgage interest rates , house price movements and localised levels of employment , since these factors will have an impact on sales of its products . |
| 25 | Retail publications , too , are more likely to be interested in close-ups of the product itself or in the promotional and publicity material which will help them to sell it . |
| 26 | They will also be interested in measures of security . |
| 27 | Where it survives at all , belief in a special East European road may be strongest in parties with a nationalist tinge , like Hungary 's Democratic Forum . |
| 28 | In this book the essential difference is taken to be that an objective must be quantitative in terms of results and time , while a goal may be less rigorously specified . |
| 29 | Although institutional sponsorship can be a positive force , it can also be counter-productive in terms of representative neighbourhood mobilisation . |
| 30 | Algorithms such as reversing sequences of ie to ei following a letter c are effective first attempts before going on to more complicated techniques , or even instead of such techniques which may turn out to be counter-productive in terms of time taken and the number of candidates produced . |