Example sentences of "[prep] be in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With so much vigilance about , it is surprising how human and mature the working classes appear to be in many novels . |
| 6 | I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In Cornwall , which has a very attractive image , in-migration of firms seems to be in some cases linked with a form of semi-retirement by owners . |
| 10 | Also , the tempi in the original Bruckner scores are much simpler than they come to be in some editions . |
| 11 | There seems to be in some patients a failure of recognition of self , and as a consequence the immune system turns inwards and begins to attack selected targets within the body , and when this happens disease may arise . |
| 12 | Gordon Woodroffe , a zoologist who has studied the water voles of the North York Moors , does not consider that the mink is the total rogue it is held out to be in some quarters , but it certainly appears to have caused the vole 's extinction on the Moors . |
| 13 | Sweden continued to be in some ways deeply divided even after the coup d'état by which Gustavus III reasserted in 1772 the power of the monarchy . |
| 14 | The Statements of Attainment need to be in some ways " unpacked " in relation to the chosen programme of study and reordered not in sequence of difficulty but in terms of their place in the programme to ensure that opportunities for assessment are capitalised upon . |
| 15 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 16 | All I 'm saying is the forms that are mentioned in the procedure that have to go in those wallets ought to be in those colours , so red , so pink . |
| 17 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 18 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |
| 19 | The first movement repeat is not played , but it tended no to be in those days . |
| 20 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |
| 21 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |
| 22 | Just as there is a break in the four volumes which constitute the Omnibus , Thru being in many respects a new departure , so the final volume of the Quartet breaks with the technological preoccupations of the first three novels . |