Example sentences of "[verb] be in [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state-owned French firm made its bid for Piper public after a spate of rumours about the US company which has been in deep financial trouble since early 1990 . |
| 2 | Normal fluorescent tubes are familiar enough , but the main development in recent years has been in compact fluorescent lamps , which take the place of normal light bulbs . |
| 3 | The only absolute increase has been in intermediate non-manual workers . |
| 4 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 5 | The development will be on land which has been in constant industrial use since 1758 and was , until recently , a steel works . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Apart from any such contract , express or implied , the place of delivery is the seller 's place of business , if he has one , and if not , his residence : except that , if the contract is for the sale of specific goods , which to the knowledge of the parties when the contract is made are in some other place , then that place is the place of delivery . ’ |
| 7 | But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside . |
| 8 | England 's eighteenth-century manufacturing growth may not have been in any full sense " export led " , but foreign trade did nevertheless have a significant and dynamic role . |
| 9 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 10 | I sent money and a small gift for Harry : ‘ if you can speak to him , that is — he will have been in enough hot water already on my account … ’ |
| 11 | But I know of several people who having been in full-time Christian work have been prepared to get a secular job for a time , until the new church was able to support them . |
| 12 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 13 | I do n't know where he did his police training , but it does n't seem to have been in any recognisable academy . |
| 14 | One case where the inductive signals may have been identified is in early amphibian development . |
| 15 | If the soil that has been excavated is in poor physical condition , discard it and backfill with sand or pea gravel . |
| 16 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 17 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 18 | In the lands west of the Rhine , there was in principle , as there had been in late Roman times , a count for each civitas , though in practice , one man often held two or more neighbouring civitates . |
| 19 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 20 | But that had been more than a dozen years ago , when Robbie 's family had been in better financial circumstances . |
| 21 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 22 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 23 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 24 | The Cooperative had been in severe financial difficulties for several years and in 1981 , after its own bank had withdrawn its support , it turned for help to the Canadian Cooperative Credit Society . |
| 25 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 26 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 27 | And having arrived at so much in the way of a comparison , she saw , suddenly revealed to her , how much there had been in those other rooms to admire . |
| 28 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 29 | If you have been in continuous legal employment , the requirement to serve a Training Contract [ page 6 ] may be waived , but you would have to complete the Professional Skills Course , after completing the Legal Practice Course . |
| 30 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |