Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A social worker by training , his earlier career embraced social work for the deaf in Liverpool and Nottinghamshire and teaching at the North London Polytechnic , where he was tutor in charge of the course leading to a " Certificate in Deaf Studies " . |
| 2 | But the money ran out , so she was cutoff in mid-sentence . |
| 3 | Although they were near-neighbours in Hampshire , McMenemy first met Redknapp in Italy when he visited father Harry in hospital after a serious car crash during the 1990 World Cup finals . |
| 4 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 5 | If you 're tenants in common , you will each own half the property or such proportions as been agreed . |
| 6 | If you 're $10,000 in debt , it 's twice as worrying as being $5,000 in debt but only half as worrying as being $20,000 in debt . |
| 7 | And if you 're $10,000 in debt , and $10,000 comes along — why , then all your worries disappear . |
| 8 | Also in Saturdays edition ( front page ) , Silver says we sold him cos we are 6m in debt , apparently LUFC owe Silver 1m . |
| 9 | ‘ Can we help it if we 're putty in your hands ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It almost sounds as if we 're 58% in charge of what we 're doing . |
| 11 | This court does not have jurisdiction to determine these appeals if they are appeals in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ within section 18(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 12 | Bureaus may require larger budgets and a greater number of staff if they are intermediaries in the provision of in-kind transfers . |
| 13 | One answer to it might be that there are systemic forces strong enough to propel the nation states through their orbits , rather as if they were planets in a solar system in dynamic equilibrium . |
| 14 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 15 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 16 | While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods . |
| 17 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |
| 18 | The tower , like other of the medieval remains of Sauveterre ( all of them numbered and labelled by the tourist authorities , as if they were clues in an architectural treasure hunt ) , is alive with pigeons and with palombes , wisely sitting out the shooting season in town . |
| 19 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 20 | I doubt we 'll hear another word from them until it 's lunchtime in Lithuania . |
| 21 | But if it is work in which we can join , the question needs to be asked : will we respond decisively ? |
| 22 | Does a case fall within the exception only if it is collateral in both senses ? |
| 23 | . But , okay , so everyone is interested in that , you know , and particularly if it 's sex in high places . |
| 24 | If it 's plea in mitigation , you 're tr remember your client has been convicted at that point . |
| 25 | If it was history in the making , he brought it to the nation . |
| 26 | Jeffrey said yesterday the system was unfair even if he was 39p in credit as incorrectly stated in Lady Hooper 's letter to Dr Mowlam . |
| 27 | Not unless they were wolves in sheep 's clothing … |
| 28 | Unless it 's Smith in Cypriot or something . |
| 29 | It was because we were strangers in bed that we were passionately involved there . |
| 30 | You look at the jury sitting there politely attentive , like children on their best behaviour because they 're visitors in an alien country and do n't want to make fools of themselves or offend the natives . |