Example sentences of "be in what [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you 'd naturally one or two just to see if they 're in what they want . |
| 2 | Most of these women had been in what they called ‘ the therapy situation ’ for years . |
| 3 | The more interested pupils are in what they write , the more attention they are prepared to give to its appearance , including spelling . |
| 4 | Where they become problematic , especially for members of marginalized cultural groups , is in what they begin to mean if we take them out of the pristine hot-house of the academy and put them into the messy struggles of day-to-day life . |
| 5 | Our interest , then , is in how teachers manage to cope with , adapt to and reconstruct their circumstances ; it is in what they achieve , not what they fail to achieve . |
| 6 | His blind spots tend to be Bartók and Stravinsky — ‘ especially when he is in what I call his ‘ wrong note ’ mode , like in the ‘ Pulcinella ’ Gavotte where he is deliberately a bar out with his ‘ Alberti bass ’ . |
| 7 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 8 | Her own interest is in what she describes as Cather 's doubleness . |
| 9 | One of the checks was in what we thought was no man 's land , a rocky valley with the odd bush here and there . |
| 10 | For once Diana was in what she calls ‘ a grown up ’ social setting . |
| 11 | The Saturday Review , presumably from the pen of Hope , said that it was in what it called the ‘ modern palatial Gothic ’ style : |
| 12 | Its chairman , Dryden Spring — a second cousin of Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring — reported that New Zealand farming was in what he described as ‘ good heart ’ , with land prices climbing . |
| 13 | Alexei 's favourite spot was in what he supposed might have been termed a clearing — at least it was in the centre of a circle of four rocks , each one the size of a crouching man . |