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

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31 The exporter 's main obligation is to ensure the documents of title and bill of exchange(s) are in order , as any discrepancies may result in nonpayment or acceptance by the confirming bank .
32 But he does not adopt this alternative , and his criticism of needs is in fact part of a much more fundamental attack on classical economics .
33 They sometimes speak of Christians being in Christ , and sometimes of being in the Spirit ( Phil 1 : l , 1 Cor. 3:1 , Rom. 8:1 , 8:9 , Col. 1 : 8 , Eph. 2:22 ) .
34 The Greek-Cypriot administration continues to observe the 1960 Constitution , although provisions for the participation in government of Turkish-Cypriots are in abeyance .
35 In a society such as the United Kingdom where over 50 per cent of workers are in the service sector compared with only 30 per cent in manufacturing , new technology in the office may have more consequences than robots in the factory for job loss .
36 Each generation of workers is in effect paying for its predecessors ' pensions , in the confident hope that the next generation will pay for theirs .
37 A management spokesman said that the union had refused to accept a peace package as a whole , while the union negotiators claimed a lock-out of workers was in progress .
38 However , the speculative element of applications is in real danger of distorting the situation .
39 This scarcity of volatiles is in accord with the lack of any topographic evidence for a lunar atmosphere or oceans .
40 This gradual variation of the gradient is effected without disturbing the horizontality of the lift dock by providing at least at the upper part of the incline two or more sets of rails for each carriage supporting the dock , the said duplicate sets of rails being in different alignment and gradually assuming different levels , the wheels of each carriage being adapted to travel thereon so that on the diminished gradient the leading wheels will travel on rails at a different level from those on which the trailing wheels travel , the duplication of the rails and their difference of level being variously arranged according to circumstances .
41 The benefits of this route could be substantial : about half of the Currie High roll comes from the Baberton and Juniper Green area , and when I carried out a survey , among parents , of travel to the school from these areas last year , a substantial number of families were in favour of opening up this path .
42 As Collier put it : " The greatest number of families were in a better economic position after the introduction of the factory system because of the increased earnings of women and children . "
43 The question of the Rent Acts ' regulation of tenancies is in the main irrelevant , since this legislation applies primarily to domestic tenancies , and business tenancies are outside the scope of the Rent Acts .
44 It can be only a matter of time before stories of patients being denied care because of lack of resources are in the headlines .
45 The Chou Li says that the interpretation of dreams was in the department of the Grand Augur ( Ta Pu ) , and mentions a special expert of lower grade ( Chan Meng ) who specialised in it .
46 For most purposes comparison of bonds is in terms of gross redemption yields as these best reflect the expected return on an investment in terms both of coupon payments and capital gain or loss .
47 That theory holds that the possession of social decision-making power by companies is legitimate ( that is , there are good reasons for regarding its possession as justified ) only if this state of affairs is in the public interest .
48 The almost inherent suspicion the police have of strangers was in the RUC 's case added to by worries about whether their personal security would be compromised and concern over the intentions of the police management .
49 The principal uses of explosives are in mining , quarrying , the building industry and seismic exploration .
50 ‘ The authorities in Northern Ireland were quite satisfied that a substantial amount of explosives was in the area , and it might only be a matter of time until this sort of activity was renewed . ’
51 In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action !
52 When you actually went into the kitchen what type of things were in there ?
53 DOUBLE DELIGHT : Loads of laughs are in store when Little and Large appear with songstress Rose Marie
54 The principal offence relating to the supply of goods is in section 1(1) :
55 While the issue of means was left unresolved , clear teaching in regard to the issue of ends was in the long run probably more important .
56 Each pair of interpreters was in a small booth by the Dortmund platform with one microphone , a cut-off button and a television showing the broadcast picture .
57 Foxe 's Book of Martyrs was in the old library , a one-volume edition for nineteenth century children with coloured illustrations and the text pruned to a litany of death by flame .
58 Where the locality was suitable or where a number of mills were in close proximity to one another ( such as the Hicks/Hooper empire at Eastington ) it was still possible for a number of separate mills to be run together .
59 If the two pairs of projectors are in line , the intention is not usually a multi-image effect In fact , it s likely that the two projectors nearer to the camera will not contain so much an image as an image-blocker , ie a mask or matte that blocks out part of the image behind it Since the two mattes will normally be complementary , and the combined image can be seen by inspection through the camera 's viewfinder , any faults , such as overlaps or gaps , should be observed at the time and , if possible , corrected on a second , third or fourth take This is more economical and satisfactory than getting the results of multiple passes back from the lab and discovering that a whole day 's work has to be redone .
60 ( a ) Whatever the role of individual mosaicists or groups of mosaicists was in the second century , there appears to be a long term trend in the popularity of certain designs over which control by these mosaicists was negligible .
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