Example sentences of "in be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's the difference between Blue Orfe and Golden Orfe ? in or ‘ How do you tell Green Tench from Golden Tench ? in are regular questions . |
| 2 | Yeah I do Stefan , I mean i it 's very vigorous int it , when it gets established and it grows very upright as well and of course it 's deciduous erm some people call it a shrub , some people call it a tree but I , I will think that er Mrs is doing the right thing by cutting it back , especially if it 's a small garden , it would make a better bush in the garden I think if she does that and the these little white flowers really in are nice are n't they ? |
| 3 | The problem is that most of the things that sociologists are interested in are abstract . |
| 4 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 5 | You will probably not succeed in being word-perfect , and there is danger in reciting a memorised speech either of appearing unnatural or of forgetting a complete section or even coming to a dead halt . |
| 6 | Both are made of RNA , a nucleic acid which differs from DNA in being single-stranded , and in having the base thymine replaced by the very similar uridine . |
| 7 | To join you had to say you believed in all the usual stuff about the Working Class leading the Revolution , but a general interest in being nice to people was all that was really required . |
| 8 | British realism is distinctive not in being realistic but in being exportable , embarrassment and all ; and it is hard to resist the conclusion that the world buys it , including the American and Soviet worlds , because it is curious about what it is to be British . |
| 9 | His aim was to restore pride in being black and inspire black Americans to campaign for equal rights . |
| 10 | Consequently , helping the child to develop a positive racial identity and pride in being black is an essential component of good parenting in a transracial setting . |
| 11 | There was no point in being curious about hopeless situations . |
| 12 | But there are also advantages in being small , because small animals need less food , and tiny creatures such as mice can hide from predators more easily than larger ones . |
| 13 | Developing the thought into consideration of wickedness , Johnson 's one-two punch summarised the presence and shape of evil within the human spirit , and he returns , if obliquely , to his recurring theme of the difficulty in being good , rather than succumbing to the natural animus all humans share . |
| 14 | In fact , since so little is known about human functioning there is no point in being complex about problem-solving . |
| 15 | At every stage of the arms race there was no intrinsic benefit in being tall for its own sake . |
| 16 | At every stage of the arms race the only point in being tall was to be relatively taller than neighbouring trees . |
| 17 | There is no profit in being re-active or retro-active . |
| 18 | In the meantime , the lads bludgeon out wodges of cacophonous , shapeless noise , like ‘ Waiting For The Wolves ’ and ‘ Hope Your Dreams Come True ’ , which revel in being unlistenable squalls far away from the succinct migraine catchiness of that hit single . |
| 19 | It was thought that this would stimulate our divinity students in being close to the university and so involved in contact with university students who would in future years be leaders of the nation , just as we hoped the divinity students would become leaders of the Church . |
| 20 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 21 | When talking about individual cheeses , I have tried to mention only those that are available in the UK without too much difficulty — I see no point in being lyrical about a cheese that you will have to travel to London ( or abroad ) to purchase . |
| 22 | If the police are truly interested in being accountable to and building bridges with those that they police , why did they not discuss their plans with representatives of the community organisations on the estate ? |
| 23 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 24 | If someone persists in being awkward , then as leader you can choose to continue the discussion with them elsewhere and move on to another questioner . |
| 25 | In being normative it avows that it does not necessarily conform to everyone 's notion of authority in all detail . |
| 26 | The Regions would take turns in being Primary and Secondary hosts — the primary visit would be for about two weeks and the secondary for about one week . |
| 27 | He was a good baby , did n't startle and wake at the least noise , like some did , but there was a pleasure in being gentle and slow about things . |
| 28 | But Branson was not interested in being a gardener for art ; he was interested in being successful . |
| 29 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 30 | I have been talking about the different levels at which reason operates in relation to individual disciplines : we can take up stances within disciplines , across disciplines , and in being critical of disciplines as a whole . |