Example sentences of "[modal v] be in [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would make a tempting combination , but that does not mean Paddy Ashdown should be in any great hurry to accept it . |
| 2 | An important role will be deciding what a fair rate of return for the academics should be in any given project . |
| 3 | Conversation analysis , which is sometimes regarded as distinct from discourse analysis ( Levinson 1983:286 ) , is a branch of study which sets out to discover what order there might be in this apparent chaos . |
| 4 | I do n't think he 'll be in any fit condition to do it every morning anyway . |
| 5 | In fact how am I to know you did n't do all this just so we could be in this very position now ? ’ |
| 6 | If I ever got busted I 'd be in such fucking shit . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think they 'd be in any real danger as long as you lock up securely . |
| 8 | The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement . |
| 9 | However , there are 20 pieces ( eight corners and 12 edges ) to restore and a piece may be in many different positions with respect to its home position , so such a method will involve solving many subproblems ( 239 to be exact ) and this is not a very human strategy , though it is perhaps the easiest for a computer . |
| 10 | Apart from medicines , there are many other potentially dangerous chemicals , solid or liquid , which may be in any ordinary home : for example , substances for cleaning and decorating , and killing weeds and rodents . |
| 11 | The committee said that because ministers occupied positions of power there were particular risks for them in any activity which overlaps the border between their public duties and private interests , however worthy the motives may be in any individual case . |
| 12 | Remember that , however complicated the embryological status quo may be in any given generation , each mutational change in the status quo can be very small and simple . |
| 13 | If the public had been sickened by the carnage at the Olympic Stadium , the next spectacle to fill their television screens would be in such spectacular technicolor and DestructaVision that it would make Rambo look like a Disney movie . |
| 14 | I planned and connived whilst at Ludlow but never , even in my wildest dreams , did I envisage that , when we did meet , it would be in such dire circumstances ! ’ |
| 15 | Waiting briefly for the lift he told himself that he was no more involved than he would be in any other case . |
| 16 | It is an additional requirement of the religion , that it shall be in some logical form which can be accepted by all kinds of people , from the academically minded who need to be satisfied with its innate sound reasoning , to those who are prepared to let faith take over where the tedium of logical study is not wanted or not within their individual capacities to undertake . |
| 17 | Goodness knows what will be in these late proofs , they appear to be taking months to prepare . |
| 18 | It is possible that the space allocated to the Coulson Professor will be in this shared building , although the whole utilisation of space within the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory will be reviewed in the near future . |
| 19 | You get people from all sorts of walks of life , who can be in these different ways . |