Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] in [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Nimbus president , Sanjeev Ranjen , believes HyperSparc , thought to lag Viking ( UX No 381 ) , could still leapfrog it in being available to all comers sooner than it rival . |
| 2 | The major European states thought Russia intended to dismember the Ottoman Empire , but in fact she sought to keep it in being . |
| 3 | There may have been few spiritual insights in his system , but in his Principles of philosophy ( 1644 ) he did insist that bodies continue in existence only because God preserves them in being . |
| 4 | The success or failure of this operation is certainly not under discussion here , my reason for bringing it in being simply to point out that music , even good music , can be written which does not abide by standard formal principles . |
| 5 | I said I hoped it would n't involve him in being menaced by hoards of vengeful Hindu fundamentalists . |
| 6 | The following concepts are a vocabulary which will help you in being able to analyse and study the functioning of organisations . |
| 7 | Like Descartes , he denied the autonomy of the clockwork : Divine preservation held it in being . |