Example sentences of "[be] in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Throughout history you come across stacks of politicians who would rather let any number of people suffer than admit to one lousy mistake of their own — they 're in all parties , not just our current lot . ’
2 Now if you want to decrease the frequency , say at evenings , and you wanted a twenty minute service , you can see that you 're in all kinds of muddle .
3 Robbie says : ‘ Any problems we do have , we sit down and sort them out straight away because we 're in each others pockets all day and every day and it would n't do to fall out badly . ’
4 But if you 've got any doubts , if you 're in any doubts at all go to your local E board or some electrical supplier , a reputable electrical supplier , and they will tell you how to do it properly .
5 They 're in those trees up there .
6 ‘ You 're in those pictures too . ’
7 I am in many senses neither asleep nor awake .
8 ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures .
9 Never for the future come near me when I am in these tumults unless I send for you .
10 In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work .
11 ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 .
12 I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years .
13 Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain .
14 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 .
15 This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more .
16 Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes .
17 Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition .
18 I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day .
19 In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’
20 They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together .
21 blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you
22 All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents .
23 But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages .
24 ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets .
25 Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill .
26 Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology .
27 They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised .
28 Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar .
29 They have been in some ways too successful .
30 At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe .
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