Example sentences of "in [adj] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pair of cloches made by Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers in 1770 are from the Orloff service and are expected to bring FFr800,000–1.2m ( £80–120,000 ; £140–210,000 ) . |
| 2 | Orthodox painters and avant-garde ‘ heresiarchs ’ in this are in competition for the consecration of the institutions . |
| 3 | Unofficial figures show that over 65% of courts built in 1991 are of the macadam variety , 10% are artificial grass and 6% are acrylic . |
| 4 | Last year 's View from Invercauld and a painting of Wensleydale from Gunnerside in 1991 are of exceptional quality , while there is a particularly fine , and possibly historically significant , painting of Hong Kong seen from the afterdeck of Britannia , with the White Ensign hanging limply in the foreground . |
| 5 | On a recent visit to Preston , the managing director of Leyland DAF told me that sales of trucks and buses — which I am sure the Minister agrees form an important part of the industry — in 1991 are at their lowest level since the 1930s . |
| 6 | The Government 's targets of 30,000 places in 1991-92 and 60,000 in 1992-93 are at least a start in the right direction . |
| 7 | The points he made in an address to the Royal African Society in London in 1975 are worth summarizing here . |
| 8 | Graduates in Chinese are in great demand in an exciting variety of occupations . |
| 9 | Naturally the judges ' tariff is not writ in stone ; it may and does change over time , so that sentences passed in 1900 are of little or no value in ascertaining the tariff in 1992 . |
| 10 | The Horta figure pieces in particular are of vital importance in the history of Cubism . |
| 11 | Two forms of livestock in particular are worth singling out . |
| 12 | As we have commented in previous books , the polytechnics in particular are for the most part anxious to redress the anomaly between themselves and universities whereby the latter are allowed to award their own degrees but they are not . |
| 13 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 14 | Arrangements for the financing of the bridge beyond the end of the extended tolling period in 1996 are under consideration . |
| 15 | Standardisation is reflected in the choice of a single approach ( the PWR ) , then in the selection of two power levels ( 900 and 1300 MWe ) , and finally by the construction of series of practically identical units : after the first six 900-MWe units , designed before 1973 , the remaining 46 units that will be in service in 1990 are in only four series , two for the 900-M units and two for the 1300-MW units . |