Example sentences of "to be in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we are going to be in awful difficulty , we 've got an education P A G , and I know Gill 's involved in that , we do have a problem . |
| 2 | The printer is said to be in bit-image mode when this happens , for the code to fire a pin is the digit 1 and the code to leave a blank is the digit 0 . |
| 3 | At Mach 1.2 , the Foxbat finally sloughed off the world of sound with a dull , ominous rumble , and Vologsky surged with new enthusiasm and excitement , happy to be in perfect control of one of the fastest flying machines in the world . |
| 4 | Brenda Barton , of the UN World Food Programme , said : ‘ Everything has to be in perfect order . ’ |
| 5 | I want to be in perfect condition for the match against Norway and I think I will . |
| 6 | The high frequencies were tamed and a spectrum calculated which proved to be in perfect agreement with experiment . |
| 7 | This proves to be in perfect accord with the requirements of equation [ 2 ] |
| 8 | But this pain , I 'm not sure what that is , I mean your arm seems to be in perfect working order , so |
| 9 | Nevertheless if a guarantee promise ( e.g. ‘ The goods are warranted to be in perfect condition on leaving the factory ’ ) is broken , then the manufacturer is liable , subject to the qualifications in the guarantee . |
| 10 | For example , second-hand goods can hardly be expected to be in perfect condition . |
| 11 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 12 | Married women are more likely than lone mothers to be in paid employment . |
| 13 | In 1986 , 440 thousand lone parents were estimated to be in paid work including those receiving sb with part-time earnings . |
| 14 | Women are less likely to be in paid employment than men . |
| 15 | To be in paid employment is to be valued . |
| 16 | Those with qualifications of any sort were more likely to be in paid employment ( 59% of those with school leaving qualifications , 37% of those without ; difference 16.7% to 34.9% ) at all levels of disease severity . |
| 17 | Henry III continued to be in desperate need of money , however , and resorted yet again to the expedient of ordering large-scale sales of forest timber . |
| 18 | The area concerned continues to be in desperate need of the benefits of Oral Rehydration Therapy . |
| 19 | In these circumstances , they tend to be in desperate need and thus have little power , so are frequently offered the worst properties with little possibility of being offered a better property on refusal . |
| 20 | It does not take into account wrecked aircraft in the many Pacific Islands and the many more known to be in shallow waters — these must await salvage and/or more confirmable status . |
| 21 | In the second outcome , we discover that females are more likely to be in low status jobs , and that people in such jobs are more likely to go absent , but that being female , once type of job is controlled , does not affect absentee behaviour directly . |
| 22 | A causal interpretation of the bivariate effect would have been entirely faulty : it was purely a product of women being both more likely to be in low status jobs and more likely to be absent . |
| 23 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 24 | Now new owner Chris Knight is reported to be in financial difficulties . |
| 25 | If an act is starting out and the manager immediately takes 25 per cent of their money , the band are almost certainly going to be in financial difficulties . |
| 26 | He was said to be in financial difficulty when he tried to blackmail Hillier in May 1991 . |
| 27 | AN unemployed resource centre in Cleveland is believed to be in financial difficulties . |
| 28 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 29 | No-one was quite sure whether they were meant to be in fancy dress but anyhow there were a couple decent Santa 's , a smith grinding policeman , and a ridiculous looking Dave ‘ Kowabunga-Mutant-Ninja-Turtle-Most-Unfortunately-named-clothing-company-of-the-century ’ Davis , dressed in poncho and sombrero . |
| 30 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |