Example sentences of "be in [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Throughout history you come across stacks of politicians who would rather let any number of people suffer than admit to one lousy mistake of their own — they 're in all parties , not just our current lot . ’ |
2 | Now if you want to decrease the frequency , say at evenings , and you wanted a twenty minute service , you can see that you 're in all kinds of muddle . |
3 | Robbie says : ‘ Any problems we do have , we sit down and sort them out straight away because we 're in each others pockets all day and every day and it would n't do to fall out badly . ’ |
4 | But if you 've got any doubts , if you 're in any doubts at all go to your local E board or some electrical supplier , a reputable electrical supplier , and they will tell you how to do it properly . |
5 | They 're in those trees up there . |
6 | ‘ You 're in those pictures too . ’ |
7 | I am in many senses neither asleep nor awake . |
8 | ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures . |
9 | Never for the future come near me when I am in these tumults unless I send for you . |
10 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
11 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
12 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
13 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
14 | People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent . |
15 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
16 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
17 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
18 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
19 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
20 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
21 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
22 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
23 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |
24 | ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets . |
25 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
26 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
27 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
28 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
29 | They have been in some ways too successful . |
30 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |