Example sentences of "[vb pp] be in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 2 | The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class . |
| 3 | The model recommended is in four parts . |
| 4 | The buildings which these adorned were in large part of timber and terracotta , but they were true Doric temples like those in stone . |
| 5 | The address they have selected is in that envelope . |
| 6 | Whether the UK 's proposal will be accepted is in some doubt , not least because it has failed to engender the support of other Member States . |
| 7 | It will be seen that this explanation does not touch the question of whether what is sought is in any sense ‘ evidence ’ . |
| 8 | His analysis of doctrines as expressions of the religious consciousness leaves a fair measure of uncertainty whether what is said is in any sense true about God , or only about our understanding of God . |
| 9 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |
| 10 | The once prestigious PSI returned 5 members only ; indeed , none of the other 23 parties represented were in double figures : most had one or two members . |
| 11 | Next year 's contest is in Barrow — and no-one involved is in any doubt what the result will be ! |
| 12 | In particular , it is no evidence that the correct quantity or number of goods has been delivered or that the goods delivered are in good condition or of the correct quality . |
| 13 | Speech that might be regarded as insulting because it attacks the cherished views and beliefs of the audience at which it is directed is in particular jeopardy from this section . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) A licence in which such a condition has been inserted is in this Act referred to as a six-day licence . |
| 15 | The pygmies of Central Africa can not find enough food in the Zaire forests and , indeed , there seems to be no unambiguous ethnographic account of any people living solely off forest products and the only tropical areas where it is believed that such people might have lived are in central Malesia . |
| 16 | The transactions covered are in broad terms financial agreements . |
| 17 | It is not possible to judge whether the social context or the people studied are in any way typical , or representative . |
| 18 | Physical and experimental considerations implied that and so the following values for were established : The results so obtained were in good agreement with predictions from fibre reinforcement theory ( Equations ( 4.21 ) or ( 4.22 ) ) provided that a value of 0.37 for Poisson 's ratio for the butadiene phase was used rather than the more usual figure , for a rubber , of 0.5 . |
| 19 | The analysis of the data thus obtained was in two parts . |
| 20 | The influences just outlined are in most cases the more important ones but they are by no means the only ones — nor are they exclusive . |
| 21 | One of the first clusters to be launched is in European studies . |