Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [adj] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Portia appears indeed in Act four to be just in her defence of Antonio , and no one can comment on her choice of suitor in Act three , for surely it was the suitors ' luck and character that were the key to her , or so it seemed . |
| 2 | That extra purchase price , and the cost of the more frequent oil-change services a diesel car requires , have to be balanced against the savings in fuel likely to be made — currently around 195p per gallon . |
| 3 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 4 | Section 231 requires information specified in Schedule 5 to be given in notes to the accounts regarding what are referred to in the headings to the section and the Schedule as ‘ related undertakings ’ — an expression which the Act does not define but which includes parent and subsidiary undertakings , associated undertakings , joint ventures , and undertakings in which the company has a substantial holding . |
| 5 | The other roots prefer slightly acid conditions ; their place in the rotation system is in soil due to be limed the following year . |
| 6 | The question is : How important are such differences or asymmetries in information likely to be ? |
| 7 | The problem results from the fact that the compulsory element in the Directive , so far as it exists , relates merely to the transfer of the contract of employment , but the contract of employment is a consensual relationship , at least as far as the employee is concerned , and so it is in principle available to be terminated unilaterally by the employee at any time or to be modified with the joint consent of employee and employer . |
| 8 | The paper is in fact due to be published in Research Policy in the near future . |
| 9 | Although associated with Brian Boru , the 11th-century high king of Ireland , the harp is in fact unlikely to be more than five hundred years old . |
| 10 | We shall show first that what might appear to be an obvious way to proceed is not in fact likely to be valid and that a more subtle approach is required . |
| 11 | Trying to segment the speech signal into phonemes is in fact likely to be a very errorful process for the following reasons . |