Example sentences of "[adj] be [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most immediate examples of this are ones in which the imposed density variations are entirely vertical ; as in Chapter 22 , this implies that any motion is the consequence of instability of the rest configuration . |
| 2 | All the items listed in section 2 were matters in which truth or falsity could be established as a matter of fact . |
| 3 | This was Inez in her early twenties , before she became the mother of Matthew 's children . |
| 4 | This was music in which note-values were determined entirely by the prosodic quantities of the text , so that note-against-note setting was inevitable . |
| 5 | Unlike nuclear power , some of this was technology in its relative infancy . |
| 6 | These are ones in which humans take a special interest . |
| 7 | Our contribution to the liberation of Kuwait ( and , during the 1980s , to the protection of the Falkland Islands ) ; our longer term contribution to the success of NATO and the collapse of the Warsaw Pact — these are matters in which we rightly take pride . |
| 8 | Thus she may be immensely wealthy , or desperately poor , since these are conditions in which almost all of us in our fantasies can see ourselves . |
| 9 | These are languages in which simple words and elements can be combined to express compound ideas . |
| 10 | All of these are projects in which the government holds a controlling interest and in which it has a strong commercial partner . |
| 11 | Her methods of child-rearing stand out as being more ‘ working-class ’ than ‘ middle-class ’ ; for example she smacked a lot and expected the three year old to be clean and tidy all the time : both these are areas in which the Newsons found social class differences in their study . |
| 12 | These are approximations in which the very large number of particles are replaced by a few quantities . |
| 13 | These are units in which 90% or more of the land is classified as rough grazing . |
| 14 | This was largely because these were areas in which planning authorities were aimed at containing urban growth and preserving open country . |
| 15 | These were cases in which the research interview could be carried out within one week of the team assessment , to minimise disagreement due to changes in the patients ' condition . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , these were years in which ITV helped TV as a whole to acquire the stigma of an ‘ idiot box ’ . |
| 17 | In the previous chapter , it was noted that some groups of trees employed in turn the same species of pollinating insects , suggesting that within certain constraints these were generalist in their flower-visiting . |
| 18 | All are ways in which modern finance has appeared to progress and to become more helpful to corporate treasurers and to underlying economies , not less . |
| 19 | How competent are people in their keys tasks , they 're the ones we should vote on first off . |
| 20 | The contributors are well chosen , none having a special axe to grind , and all being experts in their fields . |
| 21 | Those are trials in which the one defendant makes accusations against the other , and the other often makes even worse accusations against the one . |
| 22 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 23 | 923 were cases in which , in effect , the same rules were applied as would have been applicable regardless of any special relationship between surety and debtor . |
| 24 | Further , there are so many instances of what I call ‘ partial mens rea offences ’ , that is crimes in which mens rea runs to some but not all of the elements in the actus reus , that the alleged principle simply does not square with the data . |
| 25 | Well I should think that 's acidity in his stomach in n it ? |
| 26 | Er , we were told by Mr that there is no problem with numbers , remember there are two , there are two things we 've got to tackle , one is numbers , two is conditions in our home . |
| 27 | That was tradition in them days . |
| 28 | That was Forest in their pomp . |
| 29 | Seven was lunchtime in nobody 's book ! |
| 30 | Elinor was stunning as the Queen of the Nile , her long black hair smoothed out with wet-look gel , a gold and green silk robe and chunky turquoise earrings and bangles from Star of the East down the market ; and how handsome was Nigel in his mini-skirt , feathers and horse brasses . |