Example sentences of "be [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His snores are thunder in the night . |
| 2 | There has also been centralization in the public services . |
| 3 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 4 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 5 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 6 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 7 | The term of the loan is approximately 7 — 12 years for industrial projects but can go up to 20 years for infrastructure investments ( these are investments in areas such as energy , transport , and communications which are beneficial to economic expansion in general ) . |
| 8 | There are crèches in China , she said . |
| 9 | This may arise when there are excesses in the diet or when the digestive system is upset and weakened so that it can not fully break down the food for the body to use . |
| 10 | Facilitating adult learning and developing self direction in students are skills in their own right . |
| 11 | Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes . |
| 12 | There has been progress in the integration of community languages into the mainstream curriculum but the progress is pitifully slow , with a number of factors compounding a lack of confidence amongst those campaigning for greater sensitivity towards and encouragement of the forms of language brought by pupils into British Schools . |
| 13 | If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him . |
| 14 | There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race . |
| 15 | In the past few years , however , there has been progress in the systematic analysis of qualitative data using a variety of specially written computer programs . |
| 16 | There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 . |
| 17 | But although there is immunocytochemical evidence for NO synthase in hippocampal interneurons , there has been difficulty in obtaining evidence for its expression in pyramidal or granule cells . |
| 18 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 19 | It says there has been difficulty in convincing both presbyteries and congregations of the need for financial planning for the future . |
| 20 | He knows too that there are activities in which he is most intelligent when he is most spontaneous , in which to think may even be dangerous ; the ski jumper or the tightrope walker can not afford to hesitate and reflect . |
| 21 | Although both washing and washing up are activities in which dirt is removed from objects , the pleasure inherent in washing seems to be greater . |
| 22 | The intricacy of the Paris ‘ Cu[id and Psyche ’ ( 1793 ) or that of the Geneva ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ ( 1794 ) are essays in what Hugh Honour in his catalogue contribution describes as ‘ a meditatively deliberated art of controlled sensuality which demands a reciprocally calm and considered response ’ . |
| 23 | Currently four Japanese companies are shareholders in Unix Labs — Fujitsu Ltd , NEC Corp , Oki Electric Industry Co and Toshiba Corp — and some of the same companies — Fujitsu , NEC , Toshiba — are shareholders in Novell KK , Novell 's Japanese subsidiary . |
| 24 | Currently four Japanese companies are shareholders in Unix Labs — Fujitsu Ltd , NEC Corp , Oki Electric Industry Co and Toshiba Corp — and some of the same companies — Fujitsu , NEC , Toshiba — are shareholders in Novell KK , Novell 's Japanese subsidiary . |
| 25 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 26 | 34.8% of employees worldwide are shareholders in Johnson Matthey through the companys Employee Share Participation Schemes which held 3,575,516 shares ( 1.9% ) at 31st May 1993. 180 current and former executives hold options over 3,096,125 shares through the companys executive share option schemes . |
| 27 | As none of the directors are shareholders in the group right , surely they are employees ? |
| 28 | To that first question , there is the answer that necessarily they are spatio-temporal-things in space and time . |
| 29 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 30 | Over the past 40 years , there have been shifts in nuclear strategy and changes in technology and in the appreciation of the perceived threat . |