Example sentences of "[verb] [be] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave . |
| 32 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 33 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 34 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 35 | A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence . |
| 36 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 37 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 38 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 39 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 40 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 41 | ‘ But I 'm convinced they wo n't be as confident about coming to Irvinestown as they would have been in previous seasons . |
| 42 | There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played . |
| 43 | It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged . |
| 44 | This transhumance to distant resources is often thought of only in connection with more primitive and foreign communities , but it was certainly common in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times and must have been in earlier periods as well ( Figs. 11 , 59 and 93 ) . |
| 45 | Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places . |
| 46 | Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel . |
| 47 | But unlike the Towyn flood , areas hit were in large pockets spread around Aberconwy . |
| 48 | Although conceding that manufactures were in many respects deserving of the " high encomiums " bestowed upon them , a pamphleteer of 1782 went on to remark : Scarcely are we fed , lodged , clothed , warmed , without sending multitudes to their grave . |
| 49 | The once prestigious PSI returned 5 members only ; indeed , none of the other 23 parties represented were in double figures : most had one or two members . |
| 50 | Apart from the language and culture barrier in dealing with the USSR , this airframes are in military zones which are strictly no-go areas — even in post- Coup era ! |
| 51 | A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations . |
| 52 | His will , proved in December of that year , shows him to have been in easy circumstances . |
| 53 | However , as the majority of schemes proposed was to have been in small towns where there was already a relatively good provision of council houses , they have often not been implemented . |
| 54 | Although there is certainly no clear-cut distinction , there seem to have been in recent years two rather separate major usages of this term ( and related terms such as ‘ chief information officer ’ ; , ‘ information system ’ , ‘ information centre ’ , ‘ end user ’ , and so on ) in the literature . |
| 55 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 56 | People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent . |
| 57 | When the type of home was taken into account , those dying of respiratory disease were more likely to have been in nursing homes — 14 per cent compared with 6 per cent for those dying of other conditions — whereas those dying of stroke were more likely to have been in old people 's homes : 27 per cent against 12 per cent . |
| 58 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 59 | When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds . |
| 60 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |