Example sentences of "of [being] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 2 | Astrid was married , kids and mortgage , but the summer had rocketed by in a riot of colours and joy , and autumn found Astrid divorced and coming to the end of being in love with Jay . |
| 3 | Thinking — cognisance — is , however , not a matter of being in one mental state or another , or of flashing through a sequence of mental states : it is having conception of oneself as an experiencer of an external world , an experiencer who has the freedom to perform cognisant acts . |
| 4 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 5 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 6 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 7 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 8 | The worst of being in a job which the world regarded as not the right place for him was that the world would not leave him alone . |
| 9 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 11 | There is a sense of isolation from the rest of the world , a sense of the power in the dogs , and a wonderful feeling of being in control , but only just . |
| 12 | A woman with well-cut permanently glossy hair gives a good impression of being in control of her life . |
| 13 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 14 | The NMFS , the US government agency charged with administering the MMPA , has often been accused by environmentalists of being in the pocket of the tuna industry . |
| 15 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 16 | I was fed up of being in the house , anyway … . |
| 17 | Hence , we not only need to eat and drink , but we also enjoy it ; and friendships not only give us the security of being in a group , but also pleasure . |
| 18 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 19 | It has never been in the rain before and has not developed a habit of accepting the discomfort of being in the rain . |
| 20 | Her solution was to become so thin that she was extremely plain and ‘ ill ’ looking , and that way she felt she avoided the sense of being in competition with her mother , removing herself from the battle zone . |
| 21 | ‘ Ba , ’ she said , ‘ did you not say Wilson was in the way of being in touch ? , |
| 22 | For the next few days Ajdabiya was extremely unsettled , and men showed all the conventional signs of being in crisis , and on the verge of further violent action . |
| 23 | Whatever the truth about Jennifer 's ear , the Conservatives were always going to take most of the rap , by virtue of being in office . |
| 24 | The questions to be asked in relation to adoptive parents are : first , whether they can successfully parent a child and develop deep attachments to it without a feeling of ‘ entitlement ’ or of being in charge and whilst there are continued visits or contacts by birth parents or birth relatives . |
| 25 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 26 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 27 | Thus in our ‘ suicide ’ drama the adolescents , instead of being in role as members of the family concerned , could have been neighbours or reporters getting a good story . |
| 28 | In the ‘ prostitution ’ lesson , instead of being in role as the ‘ other poor people ’ sharing the girl 's life , they could have been social workers , town councillors or students on a counselling training course . |
| 29 | She was the only one to challenge the Headmaster 's mysterious ways , believing the strain of being in charge of the school was getting to him and he needed a rest . |
| 30 | Looking eastwards , the feeling of being in every respect a superior people with a concomitant missionary task found the desired confirmation … |