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Example sentences of "to be [noun] in [pron] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Indeed , the authorities upon which Mr. Collins relied in support of his submission proved on examination to be cases in which the possibility of a defence had been disposed of in that way .
2	To me , it seemed that those teachers were more likely to be experts in their own system than I would be .
3	He was now eighteen years old and wanted to be master in his own household .
4	Of course there are going to be times in your life when you feel sad or unhappy and , at such times , it is perfectly natural to cry .
5	Originally , ‘ atonal ’ music was presumed to be music in which there was a complete absence of tonality .
6	‘ Well , there used to be flowers in our own greenhouses . ’
7	They traversed sooty halls so crammed with long-dead machinery as to be mazes in themselves .
8	This means that the new generation service industries have to be wealth-producers in their own right .
9	For that statement to be anything but trivial , there would have to be situations in which an individual was faced with a choice between an act which would promote its own reproductive success and that wou wou would injure its reproductive success , but promote that of the group , shall we say by foregoing eating something , by not fighting with another member of the group , by not mating with a female , whatever it may be .
10	By that time , certain records had come out that would prove to be milestones in my life .
11	Some of these proved to be classics in their own right and became accepted as models for others to follow .
12	Given this and various of his examples , such as ‘ triangle ’ or ‘ procession ’ , they seem to be ways in which the substances on which they depend may be ordered , organized , or arranged .
13	The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed .