Example sentences of "[prep] be [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons that previous managers have baulked at making an individual a special case , in the way Gascoigne has become , is the resentment of others who — despite being internationals in their own right — might have been asked to do donkey work . |
| 2 | The decisive factor , though , was that Mrs Thatcher , for all her election triumph , was far from being mistress in her own house yet . |
| 3 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 4 | Indeed , the authorities upon which Mr. Collins relied in support of his submission proved on examination to be cases in which the possibility of a defence had been disposed of in that way . |
| 5 | To me , it seemed that those teachers were more likely to be experts in their own system than I would be . |
| 6 | He was now eighteen years old and wanted to be master in his own household . |
| 7 | Of course there are going to be times in your life when you feel sad or unhappy and , at such times , it is perfectly natural to cry . |
| 8 | Originally , ‘ atonal ’ music was presumed to be music in which there was a complete absence of tonality . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , there used to be flowers in our own greenhouses . ’ |
| 10 | They traversed sooty halls so crammed with long-dead machinery as to be mazes in themselves . |
| 11 | This means that the new generation service industries have to be wealth-producers in their own right . |
| 12 | For that statement to be anything but trivial , there would have to be situations in which an individual was faced with a choice between an act which would promote its own reproductive success and that wou wou would injure its reproductive success , but promote that of the group , shall we say by foregoing eating something , by not fighting with another member of the group , by not mating with a female , whatever it may be . |
| 13 | By that time , certain records had come out that would prove to be milestones in my life . |
| 14 | Some of these proved to be classics in their own right and became accepted as models for others to follow . |
| 15 | Given this and various of his examples , such as ‘ triangle ’ or ‘ procession ’ , they seem to be ways in which the substances on which they depend may be ordered , organized , or arranged . |
| 16 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |