Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | referring to adjudication those cases where a client 's entitlement to benefit is in doubt ; |
| 2 | Frequently the key to advance is in better ways of measuring or quantifying technical processes , or material advances which in themselves remove one of the constraints on development . |
| 3 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 4 | While the presiding officer in charge of a polling station has the right to ask questions of any voter whose identity or capacity to vote is in doubt , no one who attended at the station said they had been challenged . |
| 5 | The judge found the defendants to have been in breach of the injunction and committed each to prison for four months . |
| 6 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 7 | Another good place to look is in the soil around or beneath a compost heap . |
| 8 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 9 | The best place to walk is in the middle of the pavement . |
| 10 | If the bias towards one end is only small , the best place to start is in the middle where there is often plenty of space and the chances of making a good start are greater . |
| 11 | As with any important expedition , the best place to start is in the comfort of your own sofa , making a plan of campaign . |
| 12 | The best place to start is in the pencil test . |
| 13 | The removal of Carrick , and a number of other officers , clearly would open the way to promotion for others , but the charge that Carrick had claimed in an official record to have been in places which he had not in fact visited was not denied by the complainant . |
| 14 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 15 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 16 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 17 | For many young people , one of the best ways to socialise was in the Young Farmers ' Club , which held regular meetings and trips to nearby farms . |
| 18 | A manager who is held accountable for aspects of performance which he has no power or authority to control is in an impossible position . |
| 19 | Now of course that , it is the defendant 's case I anticipate , erm is er , although there 's nothing specific in the rule about it , is said to be er only a possibility for a plaintiff if the plaintiff when they sell , he or she served the notice to complete is in a position to be able to complete himself and here . |
| 20 | Although difficult to date he believes the trackway to have been in existence for at least 2,000 years and may well pre-date Roman times . |
| 21 | Another record that would require a Herculean effort by any contender and a large amount of time and money to break is in the underestimated art of domino tumbling . |
| 22 | * Finally , another place for presuppositions to hide is in a clause which sets the scene in a sentence ; an example is the TEMPORAL CLAUSE , as in the following example : When Blake saw his first angels he was sitting in his garden . |
| 23 | People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent . |
| 24 | Halling at this time had considerable hop fields from the area of the Plough to North and Upper Halling , the last of these fields to survive being in Upper Halling in the early 20th century . |
| 25 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 26 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 27 | Everything you need to know to get either version of the software to run is in there — but the problem is finding it . |
| 28 | The best time to visit is in stormy conditions when the birds are on the wing , but the day we went was calm and we saw them only sitting on their nests . |
| 29 | It 's something we must put behind us and the time to start is in winter conditions . |