Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] be in " in BNC.

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1 Taken by region , the highest percentage to reject any further meaning in the massacre was in Quebec : sixty-five per cent .
2 This meant that the public disputes and debates over policy that take place openly in the West were in the Soviet Union argued out within the party and in private .
3 The earliest known date of birth in the sample is in fact 1867 ( two cases ) .
4 If the number of rejects in the sample is in excess of the agreed percentage , the whole batch is returned to the supplier .
5 My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation .
6 While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law .
7 The trial did not last long , for once the Judge decided that public performance in the theatre was in fact covered by the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 , and that Mrs Whitehouse was therefore able to bring a prosecution , the case was withdrawn .
8 Plays in the Globe were in the open air and always had to be in daylight , but the Blackfriars was a building with a roof .
9 However , to demand better working conditions in the home is in a sense contradictory in that this reinforces the social and spatial oppression of women within their domestic roles .
10 A recent divorce petition cited the fact that just about every wall , fitment and piece of furniture in the home was in a half-dismantled or half-done state and had been for years .
11 ‘ Almost everyone in the court was in tears — even the legal teams who have been with us for two years , ’ said Mary .
12 But I feel that the weak point in the imagery is in the use of ‘ pathetic fallacy and this is clearly shown when Pip is about to meet his benefactor and there is a raging storm outside to show change
13 Films such as Citron 's Daughter Rite adopted a format borrowed from the personal testimony ( the diary , the autobiographical voice ) but exposed the illusory nature of ‘ unmediated ’ film-making by revealing in the credits that the two women who had been reminiscing in the film were in fact actresses playing sisters .
14 A police spokesman said that people in the camp were in a ‘ very emotional ’ state .
15 A report by the US Senate foreign relations committee released on Feb. 6 condemned the UN 's failure to respond to ceasefire violations , and to threats by Moroccan forces to fire on unarmed UN military observers ; the UN peacekeeping mission in the territory was in jeopardy , the report said , because of mismanagement and possible financial irregularities in its US$58,000,000 budget .
16 Now I think half the problem is that most of the people working in the press are in fact amateurs in the sense they 're not specialists in your particular subject except perhaps in the trade press .
17 For the moment , however , those in the pavilion were in no danger and the crowded audience which waited was entirely sympathetic to the leader 's case .
18 The context of each story in the Gospel was in the hands of the author himself .
19 Expression in the spleen is in good agreement with previous data indicating that Oct-2 expression is found within B cell lineages in the adult ( 22 ) .
20 In more seasonal regions , as in West Africa and South America compared with Indomalesia , for example , the percentage of wind-dispersed trees in the canopy is in general higher .
21 The mosaics in the narthex are in good condition , restored , in brilliant gold and colours .
22 There is a strong case for arguing that the dominance of Roman catholic high clergy in the determination of key value ingredients in catholic — nationalist consensus in the South is in a state of change , and that certain aspects in particular are being challenged .
23 As figure 5.7 taken from Jones ( 1990 ) shows , very high percentages of black female-headed families in the South are in poverty .
24 ( Tabb ( 1984 ) shows that in 1978 one in three of all manufacturing jobs in the South was in an industry with a wage rate below the national average for all manufacturing , indicating that low-wage jobs in particular had been attracted there . )
25 Timing of cancer in relation to timing of atenolol prescription — First prescriptions for atenolol in the clinic were in 1976 .
26 The most Anglo-Catholic parish in the diocese was in South Shields , St Mary 's Tyne Dock .
27 In the first instance , therefore , he focuses not on history as such but on the related problem of hermeneutics and historical understanding : history here becomes a problem of meaning and interpretation — ‘ the age already in the past is in fact constituted in every respect as a text ’ .
28 Entries in mixed doubles in international events had dropped dramatically prior to Barcelona and what is seen by many as the most interesting and entertaining discipline in the sport was in danger of extinction .
29 A promising mound under an oak turns out to be a toy bubble-car , and every white flash in the field is in fact an upturned flint .
30 They say the people of Los Angeles speak 93 languages and teach just as many in the schools , but the signs in the airport were in two : Spanish and English .
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