Example sentences of "[be] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the former , to a first approximation , the initial amount of radiocarbon in an organic sample is taken to be that in the atmosphere now , but many adjustments are made to this assumption as will be seen below . |
| 32 | It becomes an argument about propriety : Smith says ‘ May it not be that in woman the physical pain neutralizes the sexual emotions which would otherwise … tend very much to alter our estimation of the modesty and retiredness proper to the sex , and which are never more prominent or more admirable than on these occasions ? ’ |
| 33 | The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought , people are not fooled . |
| 34 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 35 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 36 | But it may be that in the morning he will be better . |
| 37 | It may well be that in some metropolitan areas Labour is suffering the kind of adverse voter reaction noted in the London boroughs , but the issue of the poll tax appears itself to have had very little substantive impact on the differences in electoral behaviour between authorities . |
| 38 | For it may well be that in America , it is all part of what is considered good professional service that an employee provide entertaining banter . |
| 39 | It may be that in order to combat a particular problem , a different bit might help . |
| 40 | ‘ It 'll be that in any case , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 41 | Another reason for Yugoslavia 's large exports to the Soviet Union is said to be that in this way the Soviet Union can obtain Western products which would not otherwise be so easily available to it . |
| 42 | It may be that in various painful and other unpleasant conditions animals deal with them by an increased usage of endogenous opioids . |
| 43 | It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first . |
| 44 | It might be that in a list of names every tenth name is the leader of a section of ten people ; to sample by every tenth would then result in either a sample of nothing but leaders or a sample with no leaders at all . |
| 45 | It may be that in revitalising or developing a talent such as painting , sculpture , macrame , embroidery , carpentry or toy-making you can actually start to earn a living out if it , particularly if what 's on offer has an original slant . |
| 46 | One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty . |
| 47 | It may be that in the past he has been humbled and had to change his thinking . |
| 48 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 49 | Lotze 's own notion would appear to be that in addition to the experience of the touch we have a visual image of the whole body , with one part , as it were , highlighted . |
| 50 | A parallel remark about ‘ It 's me ’ would be that in so far as ‘ It 's me ’ , said by the victim of amnesia in hope of recognition , has a meaning , as distinct from a use , its meaningfulness is parasitic on the meaningfulness of ‘ It 's me ’ in reply to ‘ Who is the youngest professor ? ’ , the meaningfulness of this being conditional on the possibility of distinguishing people . |
| 51 | Most of these detailed demographic studies have been made with pasture or woodland systems in northern temperate regions and it could well be that in arid zones , and some other extreme environments , biotic pressures are less dominant and then climatic factors may play the major role in killing plants and in natural selection . |
| 52 | On the other hand , it may be that in practice a court would not refuse judicial review in a case of seriously illegal action even if an alternative remedy was available . |
| 53 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 54 | It may be that in attempting to start team teaching without the experience of preliminary resource-based and other approaches and without a great deal of shared discussion and curriculum planning some schools have plunged their staffs into an experience for which they were by no means ready . |
| 55 | Now my , my unders my er erm thought would be that in reviewing the management accounts in general and the admissions in general you are keeping a wether eye on that . |
| 56 | Erm my advice to you would be that in the past , before the coffee rooms was run by this particular person firm we had very great difficulty with them and I 'm sure John will bear me out on this . |
| 57 | A and the , the justification for doing this would be that in the long term we will need the coal therefore it 's ne it 's necessary to keep er a viable coal industry going . |
| 58 | The Tyneside experience seems to be that in ‘ gentrified ’ areas this will happen , but in areas which retain their original working-class population as owners rather than tenants , then grant aid is necessary if the stock is not to deteriorate beyond redemption . |
| 59 | We could perhaps speak of coming to ‘ know ’ being , but it may be that in this case ‘ knowledge ’ is itself a metaphor . |
| 60 | The fact seems to be that in such cases it is inappropriate to think in terms of discrete variation . |