Example sentences of "[prep] [be] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ? |
| 2 | ‘ Market growth ’ was replaced by Industry attractiveness — a term that in practice was used loosely , to refer to the attractiveness of being in that area of activity in which the SBU operated . |
| 3 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 4 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 5 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 6 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 7 | For many of the disabled the greatest hardship they suffer is not the frustration and practical problems of lives that are limited by disability but the sense of being in some way segregated from the rest of society . |
| 8 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 9 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |
| 10 | The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair . |
| 11 | The matter particles are described by fields of one-half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle , which prevents more than one particle of a given kind from being in any state . |
| 12 | Moreover , the international co-operation originally envisaged by the fathers of EDC is much in evidence and that ‘ nucleus of people knowledgeable in Mathematics curriculum ’ is already in being in some countries . |
| 13 | Hopefully he 's interested in being in this band that we 're trying to put together . |
| 14 | With so much vigilance about , it is surprising how human and mature the working classes appear to be in many novels . |
| 15 | I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress . |
| 16 | There is , however , some evidence of Eisenhower 's own dismay when he found Anglo-American relations to be in such disarray in 1953 . |
| 17 | ‘ The means testing forms have to be in such detail so we can work out how much people can afford . |
| 18 | those with difficulty looking after themselves , the confused , the incontinent , the blind , the deaf , and the bad tempered were more likely to be in such homes than others . |
| 19 | I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’ |
| 20 | In Beck v Szymonowski [ 1924 ] AC 43 a clause which provided that " the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the contract " unless the buyer notified the seller of complaints within a stated period was held not to apply where the seller contracted to sell reels of cotton 200 yards in length but actually supplied reels of only 188 yards : the claim was " not in respect of goods delivered but in respect of goods which are not delivered " ( despite the fact that this might have been regarded as a claim that the goods did not comply with their description ) . |
| 21 | Rule 3.9 ( which appears on p. 1409 ) seems to be in all material respects identical with the old Ord. 47 , r. 8 . |
| 22 | Sometimes actually I think ‘ Oh I 'd like to go back to work ’ — to be in that hubbub — because I always worked in the West End and there was something about the atmosphere — being dressed all day … |
| 23 | And would you like to be in that jungle ? |
| 24 | ‘ We just do n't want to be in that position . ’ |
| 25 | erm that 's why er you know really i it is essential that certainly who ever is going to be in that position knows what . |
| 26 | But the transformation was quite extraordinary over the festive season , and the team deserved to be in that position by the end of their campaign . |
| 27 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 28 | They used to be in that size I , I ca n't remember now , that size used to be I ca n't remember , no . |
| 29 | Montgomery Square turned out to be in that part of Pimlico which has not yet become fashionable again , though some of the houses at one end appeared to be newly painted . |
| 30 | Theories in the traditional natural sciences are usually based upon icons of generative processes rather than knowledge of the generative processes themselves , and we are not unhappy to be in that company . |