Example sentences of "[noun] be [pron] in " in BNC.

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1 If you refuse to buy it from Brazil , tropical timber , their exports are something in the region of between 3 to 5 percent of their .
2 What sports , hobbies or groups are you in touch with ?
3 Which programme are we in ?
4 Look at other trades ! they all combine , ( the Spitalfields weavers excepted , and what a miserable condition are they in ) .
5 We see this at the birth of the church where ‘ all the believers were together ’ , ‘ all the believers were one in heart and mind … . ’ , ‘ they shared everything they had … . ’ , ‘ there were no needy persons among them … . ’ , ‘ and the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved ’ ( Acts 2:42–47 ; 4:32–35 ) .
6 Policies which no doubt David erm Allenby will explain later of Harrogate would suggest that Harrogate Borough is one in this county that feels it could accommodate a strategic site .
7 The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side .
8 But the process was one in which Britain has played a leading role , and the result is one in which we can clearly see the imprint of our views .
9 What department 's he in ?
10 The research area of decision-making under uncertainty is one in which conventional types of economic data and standard econometric techniques have limited value .
11 The third category of incisor digestion is one in which extensive enamel digestion occurs over the whole incisor ( Fig. 3.22 J-K , and Fig. 3.23 H-I ) .
12 Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression .
13 According to the standard description , a long shot of a human figure is one in which the figure takes up half to two thirds of the height of the picture .
14 Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five .
15 What harm is there in that ? ’
16 What harm is there in trying to achieve better value for money and more choice for the consumer by more competition — always giving an assurance , which I repeat today , that we will ensure that the uniform tariff structure remains in being even in rural areas ?
17 A much less demanding condition is one in which the saboteur is attempting to damage a plant about which he has little or no technical knowledge .
18 The Minoan religion was itself in transition , and we can see the humanoid deities as more evolved than the daemons , who were older nature-spirits .
19 He relied upon the fact that the evidence of Price , although ( if accepted ) it implicated the applicant in the commission of the relevant offences , did not provide any evidence that the applicant was himself in Sweden at the time when those offences were committed .
20 In the best 10 per cent of hospitals only one operating theatre session in 77 had to be cancelled , but in the worst 10 per cent the figure was one in six , he said .
21 The chances of having a severely mentally handicapped child are one in 200 .
22 Many people think a successful marriage is one in which they do n't have problems .
23 ‘ What line of work is he in , then ? ’
24 This world-view is one in which the material and the phenomenal dominate consciousness at the expense of the spiritual ( the numinous ) and the supernatural .
25 In the following extract we see that an equally offensive act is one in which a soft teacher tries to assert authority , but when challenged gives in .
26 A convenient alternative presentation of the information inherent in a Nyquist plot is one in which the logarithm of the modulus of the loop gain , , and the phase shift , φ , round the loop are plotted separately as a function of the logarithm of the pulsatance , .
27 ‘ And he 'll tell you that each of us would-be Marines is one in a million — one in a billion — except for he who sets himself above the rest of his brothers ; and that one is less . ’
28 Thus the experimental activity and the instructional activity are reciprocally enhanced , and the most effective pedagogy is one in which the two act together , each informing and reinforcing the other .
29 The fourth issue is something in which the Minister will not be at all interested — European competition in the 1990s .
30 A second ‘ delinquent ’ type is one in which the gang still broadly aspires to dominant ideas of success ( including the equation of ‘ success ’ with material rewards ) but finds alternative means towards these ends .
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