Example sentences of "[verb] be in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 5 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling . |
| 7 | — has been in this country . |
| 8 | There has been in this sense de-differentiation in the postmodernist attempt to drain the aura from the work of art . |
| 9 | Steve Cauthen is confident of a good run from Irish St Leger winner Mashaallah , but Magic Night has been in this battle before and this time she can win . |
| 10 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 11 | ‘ That is how vital the help of the Mirror has been in this crisis . |
| 12 | Buckley has been in this job since 1988 and in the department since 1981 , but she started as a lawyer in private practice , a profession where equality is far more of a reality than in industry . |
| 13 | She has been in this hospital room since February waiting for her heart-lung swap . |
| 14 | The future of the Cotswold line from Oxford to Worcester , has been in some doubt following a leaked BR report which revealed that it was to have no further investment , despite its pre-war signalling and rustic stations . |
| 15 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 16 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 17 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 18 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 19 | That is not say that those whom it is hoped to benefit are in any sense undemanding or unsophisticated . |
| 20 | Anxious to conclude the meeting , he added : ‘ Everything else you need to know is in that envelope — that includes any funds that you may require . |
| 21 | Everything you need to know is in this document . ’ |
| 22 | What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do . |
| 23 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 26 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 27 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 28 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 29 | The address they have selected is in that envelope . |
| 30 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |