Example sentences of "[be] in the nature [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given his military background , such a task should have been in the nature of coals to Newcastle , but in the event he was scrutinising his reflection in the mirror above the fireplace . |
| 2 | It 's in the nature of monks not to be stupid . ’ |
| 3 | Welll Cabinet 's are always under strain it 's in the nature of poltics , but I expect John Patten to be back at work within the course of this month , he 's just gone on holidasy when he returns he 's going back to the office . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ It is in the nature of youngsters to try things . |
| 5 | That is in the nature of things . |
| 6 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |
| 7 | Because the sceptic is in the nature of things , if he 's really consistent and systematic , committed to tolerating , well , all these other opinions , to tolerating all sorts of preposterous absurdities and monstrous attitudes . |
| 8 | We do not take ‘ wrong turnings ’ ; it is in the nature of turnings to be wrong . |
| 9 | But on the present approach the search for universal standards is irrelevant to the objectivity of right and wrong ; it is in the nature of standards , which must alter with changing conditions and vary in stringency and applicability to particular cases , to be both a help and a hindrance to discovering the objective worth of a particular act . |
| 10 | It was in the nature of things that the trading-manufacturing element should tend to cluster in towns and industrialised villages , although cottage industry was widely dispersed , especially in the north and west , where population was dense and common land extensive . |
| 11 | Como soon discovered that it was in the nature of winners to enjoy their winnings , as Barbarossa stayed in the north in an attempt to subjugate all the city states . |