Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 2 | The phrase " new licence " is defined in s.139(1) of the Act as meaning " a licence granted in respect of premises for which , at the time of the application for such grant , either no licence was in force or a licence different from the form of licence so granted was in force . |
| 3 | Martin Hardie wrote : ‘ Where all the plates are so excellent , it seems unfair to make distinctions , but where Daniell especially excels is in suggesting the warm haze that hangs over a summer sea , or sunlight playing on the roofs of a fishing village and the walls of its harbour . |
| 4 | Her young men hitherto had been in the City , or in advertising , chartered accountancy , or even television . |
| 5 | Physical and experimental considerations implied that and so the following values for were established : The results so obtained were in good agreement with predictions from fibre reinforcement theory ( Equations ( 4.21 ) or ( 4.22 ) ) provided that a value of 0.37 for Poisson 's ratio for the butadiene phase was used rather than the more usual figure , for a rubber , of 0.5 . |
| 6 | At the end of an hour , only one ‘ little feller ’ too young to know better had been in Auguste 's possession , and William and Joseph were scarcely able to restrain their mirth . |
| 7 | What would that better deal be in that case ? |
| 8 | The fact that it was later more generally recognized is in part due to the attention which Roth 's scholarly and semi-popular writings attracted ; and the circumstances that his findings have not always survived the scrutiny of able younger scholars itself attests his own success in helping to put Jewish history on the academic map . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , ’ says she , exaggerating the poshness I had not realised was in the word . |
| 10 | His Highnesse the Prince of Orange ( whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power ) Did ( by the advice of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and divers principall persons of the Commons ) Cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall being Protestants and other Letters to the several Count yes Citties Universities Burroughs and Cinqe Ports for the chuseing of such persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sitt at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this Year 1688 in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Lawes and Libertyes might not againe be in danger of being subverted . |
| 11 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 12 | So are you omitting to say what exactly has been in numbers . |
| 13 | There are also pressures to raise agricultural productivity to accommodate population increases , though most of the land that can be thus exploited is in the uplands and is consequently susceptible to erosion . |
| 14 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 15 | The cost of restricting emissions in a country struggling with inefficient smokestack industries may not have been in Budyko 's mind , but it is an obvious factor in the Soviet attitude , as it is elsewhere . |
| 16 | Catherine was so quiet that she might as well not have been in the room and it occurred to him that he must train her to make some unobtrusive signal to him when she thought he was missing something . |
| 17 | Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks , cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers , but she was a real traveller , ranked among those who actually get up and go , sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers . |
| 18 | For post-designation companies , about two-thirds would not have been in the zones had designation not taken place . |
| 19 | Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing . |
| 20 | On the other hand , it is conceivable that he would not have been in a position to appreciate the differences very clearly . |
| 21 | It would not have been in his nature , nor would he have been inclined , to do otherwise … |
| 22 | A child will not have been in school many days before he is made aware of individual differences among his classmates . |
| 23 | If the highly developed woollen textile industry be disregarded , the structure of crafts and trades of Babergh may not have been in any way unrepresentative of the shires at that time . |
| 24 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 25 | He said the entrance should not have been in the centre , but a little door should have been built at one side . |
| 26 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 27 | For if only he could fly free then perhaps this life of hers would not have been in vain . |
| 28 | But it would not have been in the least like that , really . |
| 29 | The dwarf had been a mutant , and as such should not have been in Kinsai at all . |
| 30 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |