Example sentences of "be in [noun] as " in BNC.

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1 In ‘ 87 , Nick had been in Athens as one of the team that lured Fawaz Younis to a boat out of territorial waters , and put the handcuffs on him , and read him the charges of Air Piracy and placing a destructive device aboard an aircraft and committing violence aboard an aircraft and aiding and abetting a hijacking .
2 A COUPLE of Hail Marys might have been in order as the first-night audience left Dario Fo 's Vatican farce , The Pope and the Witch , which opened at the Comedy Theatre , London , on Monday .
3 Marling already occupied Pitts Mill and may well have been in Freames as well .
4 Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there .
5 It seems only appropriate to begin this chapter by establishing the limits of the subject , because not everyone has been in agreement as to where influence ends and control begins .
6 The purpose was to make applicable to building societies the composite rate system which had been in force as respects bank interest since the Finance Act 1984 .
7 It has clearly been in hibernation as well as in opposition for the past 12 years .
8 Those four horny young mad cows CUD are in clover as they chew over their newfound ultra-trendiness despite the beefs about their drummer .
9 Chlorofluorocarbons ( commonly known as CFCs ) are the biggest culprits ; their main uses are in aerosols as propellants , in foam plastics as an expansion agent , in refrigerators and air conditioning systems as coolants and insulators , and as cleaners and degreasers in the electronics industry .
10 ABC whose authorised share capital is currently 100,000 ordinary shares of £1 of which 60,000 shares are in issue as set out in Schedule 1 , column ( 2 ) .
11 New powers introduced by the Bill include the obtaining of evidence for the purpose of proceedings which are in contemplation as well as those which are pending , authority to have evidence taken otherwise than on oath or affirmation , and extended powers to secure the attendance of witnesses anywhere in the United Kingdom .
12 When Howard leans on a gate , talking about the rottenness of the society he has rejected , his children are in frame as well , rather small in the background , playing tag next to his left ear .
13 That is a mandatory duty imposed upon the justices and one that the law does not permit them to relinquish , albeit the parties appearing before them are in agreement as to the order that shall be made .
14 Choices of ends , as of means , are debatable in terms of public tests ( of whether things are in fact as the agent imagines them , whether his reactions as observed in his behaviour are as he feels them to be ) , but can take account of public observations only to the extent that they are subjectively confirmed .
15 Seminars , tutorials and group teaching are in use as well as lecture methods .
16 Otherwise we hear the Alpha chips are in production as are certain of the Alpha machines .
17 Matthew Arnold refers to Horace 's " allusive and compressed manner " ( In his essay " On translating Homer " ; actually with reference to in Odes , iv , ) Gladstone ( 1894 : v ) mentions " the necessity of compression " as the particular object of his own translations — which are in places as uncompressed and haplessly spongy as anyone else 's .
18 Are there songs when when you er are in concert as you are tonight , are there songs that you could not miss out ?
19 While this complex of overcrowding and decay colours the lives of all who live in St Ann 's , it has a special significance for those who are in poverty as well .
20 Whatever the resolution of these problems , Allen and Burton 's observations show that many surprises are in store as modern observational techniques enable us to probe into hitherto unexplored regions of interstellar space .
21 Smith marries these preoccupations to highly effective pop psychedelia — like Syd Barrett-vintage Pink Floyd under contemporary radio discipline — to produce spectacular ear candy like the exultant Friday I 'm In Love as well as woe-is-me epics like the appropriately titled Open and End .
22 Course this time next week they will be in Italy as we all go off to Brescia in the er north of the country .
23 Worse still are cases in which only the jurist seems to be in doubt as to what kind of disposition is involved .
24 The few oral statements reported in the text are clearly marked as such so that no one can be in doubt as to their hypothetical nature .
25 It seemed as if that was going to be in doubt as well for a moment , but then he swung the door wide in a parody of a silent welcome .
26 The government 's longer-term commitment to " quality " public services must be in doubt as they become increasingly embattled on the economic front .
27 The central bank announced that a two-tier exchange rate system would be in operation as from Feb. 19 , 1990 , comprising an official and a market exchange rate .
28 Efforts by Pakistan and Iran to broker a peace settlement with the mujaheddin on the basis of the UN plan were reported to be in progress as of mid-1991 .
29 It is not uncommon for different members of the same court to be in agreement as to the contents of the procedural duty , but to differ as to whether they describe this as resulting from natural justice or fairness .
30 In these ways , our relationship with others grows and deepens , freeing them to be in Christ as they might long to be .
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