Example sentences of "[noun] be in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the USA big name institutions are in the race : Princeton , Los Alamos , MIT .
2 MICKEY MOUSE and Donald Duck are in the dog house with Goofey .
3 Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt .
4 ‘ No , the nose and the hair are in the family , ’ my brother agreed .
5 Do not worry about this so long as all or most of the important symptoms of the case are in the remedy .
6 Improvements to Ark printing are in the offing , Mr Round believes , as are facilities for transferring data into Ark , which will allow data to be loaded automatically from the firm 's AS/400 database without rekeying .
7 The Germans are in the village .
8 for example : ‘ Do any lecturers have a PhD ? ’ or ‘ How many lecturers are in the Computer Science Department ? ’ can be answered by accessing the index only .
9 In the capital , Riga , ethnic Russians are in the majority .
10 The story goes that the ends of the bugle strings on the badge are in the form of thistles in remembrance of the regiment 's association with the Highlanders in battle .
11 Copies are in the Library of the House .
12 About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan .
13 They can look the up by title , by the title of the book , as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library or whether or they 're all on loan .
14 Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved .
15 The relation with the recent oil impact measure table IV has obvious relevance here and also to why all the Thurso cases are in the west of the town , with none in the east : west Thurso is largely composed of nuclear workers not native to the area ( locally known as ‘ atomics ’ ) , making it until about 10 years ago rather separate from the rest of the town .
16 Possibly the saddest cases are in the consumer credit field , where exactly the same rules apply as in business , but tend not to be fully understood by many of the general public .
17 Lesotho , Madagascar and Mauritius are in the process of implementing schemes ; Burkina Faso , Ghana , Rwanda and the Seychelles are about to .
18 George 's hours are in the pre-pack .
19 Copies of the most recent report for the year ending 31 March are in the Library .
20 Lincoln are in the middle of a good spell , having won five of their last six matches .
21 But there is this thing that all of the forms are in the intellect and all of the forms ah are in the intellect and all of the forms do somehow weave together into some sort of unitary thing .
22 Because these movements are superimposed on movements caused for other reasons ( such as the moon 's gravity ) , and because the continents are in the way , these movements are very complicated indeed .
23 These grasslands are in the centre of Australia and have a very low population density .
24 Most of its titles are in the south of England .
25 Businesses targeted for the support are in the small to medium range , employing five to 50 people and must be able to show their viability and potential for growth .
26 The majority are in the upland regions of the North and West ( figure 7.1 ) .
27 All meetings are in the Conference Room at 10 am .
28 Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected .
29 Brighton are in the relegation battle ; Town back in the promotion race .
30 Many of these plateaus have anomalous crustal thicknesses of between 20 and 40 km and an upper layer 10 to 15 km thick with P-wave velocities in the range 6.0–6.3 km s-h These values are in the range of granitic rocks in the continental crust and so it is inferred that many oceanic plateaus ( such as the Seychelles Bank ) are drowned continental fragments originating from the edges of ancient land masses and destined to be swept towards a subduction zone in the future .
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