Example sentences of "be in [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 2 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 3 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 4 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 5 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 6 | The competitors were in various categories for judging and were to be judged by professionals specially flown in from the States . |
| 7 | Shocked old-guard MPs , who had imagined they were in cushy seats for life , suddenly found Right-Ons dominating their constituency parties with a potent mixture of brow-beating and attrition . |
| 8 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 9 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 10 | Another opportunity for research is in developing plastics for packaging chips . |