Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erosion of the granites gives rise to a barren , rolling landscape such as is seen in the Uig Hills of western Lewis , and steep , inaccessible sea cliffs such as are present in western Harris . |
| 2 | In controversial matters such as are involved in industrial relations there is room for differences of opinion as to what is expedient , what is just and what is morally justifiable . |
| 3 | So the ones we are looking for are all in deep water . |
| 4 | The same parodic tactics used in Between are evident in this novel , but transposed onto the self-reflexive plane of metafiction they become magnified , hence more overt . |
| 5 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 6 | THIS five-year-old mare will go hurdling after being unbeaten in two bumpers last season . |
| 7 | £560 if you were hospitalised for a week after being involved in an accident as the NatWest Hospital Income Plan would pay you DOUBLE the normal rate for hospitalisation . |
| 8 | Nick Pollard died from head injuries after being involved in a scuffle in the centre of Newent . |
| 9 | A YOUNGSTER broke his leg and suffered cuts to his face after being involved in a car crash at the weekend . |
| 10 | KOO Stark , a former girlfriend of the Duke of York , was being kept in hospital last night after being involved in a road accident in London . |
| 11 | Mrs Mainwaring 's 18-year-old son died after being involved in a road accident yards from the Halton Hospital gates . |
| 12 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The idea came from speaking to businessmen who had missed important meetings after being stuck in a cab in heavy traffic , ’ says Cave . |
| 14 | HOW silly of comedy writer Carla Lane to try to save a pit bull terrier which faces an automatic destruction order after being unmuzzled in public . |
| 15 | Energy transferred to our bodies as heat-by sitting by a fire or by drinking a hot beverage for example-is negligible in comparison . |
| 16 | But I mean i i certainly if you go through the , the early bits erm I mean i i i if you take well okay the , the organization bit to begin with , but then hitting the landlords politically er you know y you 're , you 're checking their accounts , you 're imposing their fines when they 've been a bit naughty , you 're letting contributions erm you 're crowning them and going through the streets , you 're locking them up , you 're banishing some of them , you might be executing some of them but i it 's , it 's only specifically where they 've offended against your , your view of the moral economy , where they , where they 've sort of been naughty in terms of |
| 17 | Now my concern is not really with trying to erm get outside people or people in universities to sort of be involved in evaluations necessarily , it 's with helping people within schools to acquire more skills in the area of evaluation , so that schools , whenever they feel it would be useful to them , have got enough professional expertise among their own members to be able to perhaps rather more the quality of their evaluation and to see that it gets put perhaps to rather more purpose . |
| 18 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 19 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 20 | BY JUGGLING genes in two types of flu viruses a group of American investigators has produced a live-virus flu vaccine that shows every promise of being effective in humans . |
| 21 | Talking to my sister on the phone about the visit she insisted that the feeling of being absent in my mother 's presence was nothing to do with the illness , was the emotional underpinning of our childhood . |
| 22 | Unlike modernist works that give the illusion of being autonomous in their surroundings , and which function critically only in relation to the language of their own tradition , site-specific works emphasise the comparison between two separate languages . |
| 23 | My expressing some Fear of being troublesome in coming so frequently , occasioned a great Variety of Invitations , both in Verse and Prose ; which I could seldom resist : And indeed her whole Behaviour to me was so extremely good-natur 'd and obliging , that I must have been the most ungrateful Person in the World , if I had not endeavour 'd to make some Return . |
| 24 | The original effect of being rich in figure 13.2 ( +0.144 ) was spuriously high ; it was a product of the fact that young people are more likely to be rich and young people are also more likely to contemplate breaking the law . |
| 25 | But a spokesman for P and O accused Sealink of being selective in their choice of dates , saying : ‘ Two months do n't make a year . |
| 26 | The aims of this chapter are , first , to explain why women now over pensionable age have benefited less than men from the existence of occupational pension provision , thus increasing their likelihood of being poor in old age . |
| 27 | Plant proteins also have the advantage of being low in fat and high in fibre . |
| 28 | where C SL is the transactions cost of being long in the spot index ( buying shares in the index ) ; C FN is the transactions cost of being short in the future ( selling a future ) ; C SN is the transactions cost of being short in the spot index ( selling short every share in the index ) ; and C FL is the transactions cost of being long in the future ( buying a future ) . |
| 29 | where C SL is the transactions cost of being long in the spot index ( buying shares in the index ) ; C FN is the transactions cost of being short in the future ( selling a future ) ; C SN is the transactions cost of being short in the spot index ( selling short every share in the index ) ; and C FL is the transactions cost of being long in the future ( buying a future ) . |
| 30 | But now the water flowed , water as from a spring whose source he had forgotten , the lost energy of young and wasted years ran into his limbs and mind and spirit so that he looked everywhere with honesty , with a sensation of being right in the world . |