Example sentences of "[verb] are in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories are , wisely , keeping their boy away from most of the rough stuff — rightly recognising that such strengths as he has are in his niceness — but he has to look like he wants to win sometimes . |
| 2 | And sadly , many of the people it kills are in their middle years . |
| 3 | I mean , in the parish over the erm what five to ten years , the things that have grown are in their own , the , various other support groups and so on . |
| 4 | But the petty snobbery and priggishness of which it is sometimes accused are in my view much less serious ( and in any case demonstrably declining ) than are two tendencies : the first , to make the curriculum and the public examination system a closed circuit ; the second , to be increasingly concerned with training — in other words , to think of its pupil-product more and more as an instrument rather than as an end . |
| 5 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |
| 6 | The conclusions which historians draw are in themselves controversial . |
| 7 | We want to make the most of our membership , and create the sort of institutions and rules which we believe are in our best interests . |
| 8 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |