Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [be] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , where labour is either particularly demanding or is not in itself particularly fulfilling or interesting one could reasonably say it is in the interests of the workers concerned to work short hours and/or work at a relatively low intensity of labour . |
| 2 | I went home sulking and was still in a mood when Frankie returned . |
| 3 | There may well be all sorts of deviations and fluctuations here ; the whole system expands and becomes complicated , develops and is continuously in motion and oscillating but , taken as a whole , it is in a state of equilibrium . |
| 4 | The few words posted to the tree informed everyone that Lovat had been badly wounded and was now in hospital somewhere in England . |
| 5 | Conditions for a Sussex ‘ miner , , or factor carbonis , can have been little different from that of later centuries , a nomadic life lived in the woods , shelter in bad weather being provided by the simple turf-covered pole shelters that were still in use forty years ago . |
| 6 | At the top of the backswing , note how the left shoulder has turned and is now in front of and slightly underneath the chin . |
| 7 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 8 | He has been injured and is clearly in a state of shock . |
| 9 | The discredited test was used since the Seventies to identify impurities , and many owners were given clean bills of health on houses which subsequently were found to be contaminated and are now in danger of collapse . |
| 10 | ‘ The jury cast their vote by secret ballot and their deliberations were meticulously checked and tripled checked and were absolutely in accordance with the rules , ’ Mr Byrne said yesterday . |
| 11 | ‘ The jury cast their vote by secret ballot and their deliberations were meticulously checked and tripled checked and were absolutely in accordance with the rules , ’ Mr Byrne said yesterday . |
| 12 | Teachers in schools being tested are thus powerless , since they have no control over the measures used and are not in a position to dispute the findings ( although this depends on how the results are used , and if , for example , they are published ) . |
| 13 | The Scottish study shows that two thirds of the male clients were employed and are increasingly in higher earning brackets but of the female clients an increasing number are in lower income groups . |
| 14 | A police officer may see a person driving a motor vehicle , who he knows to be disqualified but is not in a position to stop the driver . |
| 15 | Well you will find for instance that three times as many people will strongly oppose and was strongly in favour , something omitted from the report in front of me and there are eight per cent there that were indifferent . |
| 16 | Mr Narita 's acquisitions were seized and are still in storage in Geneva where , thanks to the art market slump , they have lost anything up to 75% of their value . |
| 17 | The methods of enforcing a security interest depend upon the nature of the rights which it confers and are often in no way peculiar to company law . |
| 18 | On a number of other key issues in the Middle East Anglo-American interests and priorities coincided or were not in fundamental conflict . |
| 19 | But he came over to me , apologised and was almost in tears . ’ |
| 20 | Limestone reappears and is much in evidence when Hellgill Bridge is reached , this centuries-old structure spanning a deep gorge . |
| 21 | The user has attempted to submit a package which has previously been submitted and is currently in QA for approval . |
| 22 | New arrangements for the Training Fund have been devised and are now in operation . |
| 23 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 24 | The boom days of the 1980s will never return and though profits should recover well when the upturn finally comes that is largely in the price . |
| 25 | Stuart turned to speak and was just in time to see the man snatch the plastic bin from the young assistant and run back towards the door . |
| 26 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 27 | I have n't yet married and am not in a rush to do so , so I suppose that in this regard I am a disappointment to my father , though I 'm sure he understands that it would be unfair for me to marry with my present commitment to athletics . |
| 28 | But it would n't mean very much to me if I did , ’ she confessed to the tall lean man whom she assessed as being somewhere in his middle thirties . |