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

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1 The Koran and Islam are in danger . "
2 If testing shows that our attachment to Christian friends or to a particular lifestyle is stronger than our attachment to God himself , we must ask whether these supports for faith are in danger of becoming substitutes .
3 Most of the remainder are in the 40–70 range , with the highest grades reaching almost average mental ability .
4 The remainder are in effect , although they may be called from memory with the READ PALETTE prompt from the PATTERN instruction in the main menu bar at the top of the screen .
5 Only 50 of the remainder are in London , with the rest in Trowbridge , where Barclays stores the securities it is responsible for .
6 The main RIU meetings to discuss research funding are in May and September .
7 ‘ No , the nose and the hair are in the family , ’ my brother agreed .
8 In practice , the Director of Public Prosecutions does not prosecute films with BBFC certificates for cinema showing , so distributors prepared to pay the certification fee and to carry out the " cuts " insisted upon by the Board are in effect guaranteed freedom from police harassment .
9 Do not worry about this so long as all or most of the important symptoms of the case are in the remedy .
10 And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on .
11 How effective has occupational pension provision been in removing the present generation of ‘ young elderly ’ women , currently aged 60–75 , from poverty ?
12 However , a substantial number of the carers in this category are in fact over retirement age .
13 Several different types of tabular ledger are in use , but always the basic principle is the same .
14 If the teeth of the lower jaw are in front of those of the upper jaw , one considers it an underbite .
15 Improvements to Ark printing are in the offing , Mr Round believes , as are facilities for transferring data into Ark , which will allow data to be loaded automatically from the firm 's AS/400 database without rekeying .
16 In this situation , when casting off , the first shoulder , the second shoulder , and possibly the neckline are in holding position .
17 Morphemic complexity and syllabic complexity are in gross terms reasonably equivalent ; but they are not necessarily equivalent for individual words ; for example , six-th-s contains three morphemes , but only one syllable ; establish , on the other hand , contains only one morpheme , but three syllables. ( ii ) An idiom may be roughly defined as a sequence of two or more words , the meaning of which is not predictable from the meanings of the constituent words ; eg get by , as it were , under the weather .
18 Rhinos in Nepal 's Chitwan National Park are in danger of being scared off their foraging grounds by parties of tourists mounted on elephants .
19 All power , all profits , all our sources of livelihood are in their hands — but the one thing they leave behind will destroy them — the hatred of a million coolies !
20 The story goes that the ends of the bugle strings on the badge are in the form of thistles in remembrance of the regiment 's association with the Highlanders in battle .
21 It will be seen from the above comments that the local banks through their Trade Finance Division are in a position to offer real help — it would be foolish to ignore it .
22 However , if the two are integrated , those running the body-making division are in a weaker position if asked to make changes , since they have no independent control rights over the assets they manage .
23 Now I am in year eleven and I have the main female role in a production we are doing next year , and rehearsals for next year 's school play are in full swing .
24 The pupils of St David 's primary are in no doubt as to the merits of the project compared to normal paint and brush work .
25 Dicey thus identifies the growth in power of the party machine as the source of the problem : ‘ Coalitions , log-rolling , and parliamentary intrigue are in England diminishing the moral and political faith in the House of Commons . ’
26 However , few true expert systems exist , but many extremely useful systems that utilise human knowledge but do n't necessarily perform at the expert level are in regular operation .
27 The next level are in fact magistrates , who appear to have a similar area of responsibility to our Gown Court judges .
28 The completion of the internal market would therefore appear to imply the removal of such protective devices , but member states are not likely to comply until protective measures at the Community level are in place .
29 The legs that deliver that blow are in proportion to the rest of the tiger 's body , the circumference of the upper joint often being as much as 21 in ( 54 cm ) .
30 When the back seat rail and stretcher are in place we can move on to the curved lower rail in the back .
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