Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority are in the upland regions of the North and West ( figure 7.1 ) . |
| 2 | Comments ranged all the way from excellent to poor with the majority being in the good to very good range . |
| 3 | Boots continued to multiply , though the majority were in the expanding field of leisure walking . |
| 4 | The majority were in the private sector . |
| 5 | And he said , it looks as though they 've put the chimney on and found that the flue is the ba the boiler 's in the bathroom , so they 've had to come down here . |
| 6 | The weakness is not in truth as the object of belief ; the weakness is in the believer since he is failing to enter into the essential obligations of believing . |
| 7 | They were extravagantly to his advantage , save when she lowered her voice to sigh , tapping her left side familiarly : " And all overclouded by this , you know — all at the mercy of a weakness — ( 9 ) Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 8 | This impression is backed up by the following sentence , which stands out as being the shortest and most straightforward sentence in the extract : Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart ( 10 ) . |
| 9 | These express the content of Pemberton 's inner consciousness : " Pemberton gathered that the weakness was in the region of the heart " ( 10 ) : " he would have liked to hear the figure of his salary " ( 3 ) . |
| 10 | Most of the remainder are in the 40–70 range , with the highest grades reaching almost average mental ability . |
| 11 | Approximately 40 per cent of plantation forest is in the developed world , a further 50 per cent is in the Communist Bloc especially in China ( section 7.2.1 ) while the remainder is in the developing world , though the rate of planting is not sufficient to compensate for the rates of deforestation . |
| 12 | There were 140 parcels , of which only forty-seven were occupied by the head tenants , the remainder being in the hands of subtenants . |
| 13 | In fact , half the cases appeared in one newspaper — the Middlesex Chronicle , a local weekly — while the remainder were in the nationals . |
| 14 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 15 | For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon . |
| 16 | I mean , th that 's a typical kind of association , that , that it 's a link , you can see the link is in the word , but the effect is to , is to misdirect your attention . |
| 17 | The change is in the ‘ mix ’ of oral and literate modes and this is related to changes in the conventions associated with them . |
| 18 | The change is in the procedures proposed for adjudication on offences in prisons by boards of visitors . |
| 19 | When there is more than one stressed syllable in the head there is usually a slight change in pitch from the level of one stressed syllable to that of the next , the change being in the direction of the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 20 | Businesses targeted for the support are in the small to medium range , employing five to 50 people and must be able to show their viability and potential for growth . |
| 21 | One possible interpretation is that the nucleation time can be prolonged under two different circumstances : ( 1 ) When most of the cholesterol is in the more stable carrier(s) ( the non vesicular ) ; ( 2 ) When the metastable carrier is stabilised by a more rigid membrane ( disaturated phosphatidylcholine ) as well as a lower cholesterol/ phospholipids ratio ( which always occurs when most of the lipid is found in the vesicles ) . |
| 22 | With phosphatidylethanolamine most of the cholesterol ( 85% ) was in the vesicular fraction , while with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular fractions ( 80% ) . |
| 23 | With a saturated fatty acid ( palmitic acid ) in the sn-1 position and the polyunsaturated arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 24 | With a saturated fatty acid in the sn-1 position ( palmitic acid ) and arachidonic acid in sn-2 position most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular phase . |
| 25 | It is noteworthy that with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the more stable ( non-vesicular carrier ) . |
| 26 | The track is used in the front position for sailing into wind , as nearly all the length of the board is in the water and this provides greatest sideways resistance . |
| 27 | Nowhere near as easy as it sounds , the trick is in the timing . |
| 28 | No other mention is made of the fact that Molla Fenari 's son ( presumably Mehmed Sah ) was with him ; and , though the sentence is in the context of the visit of 823 , it presumably must refer to an earlier Ramadan . |
| 29 | His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics . |
| 30 | ‘ It has now been sold and the money is in the bank . |