Example sentences of "of [noun pl] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now here again calculation of forces er and er the , the er er conduct of operations was in fact strictly limited . |
| 2 | Two sets of policies are in operation . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this play was overshadowed by the opening production and Crawford was the only leading actor not to merit a mention from Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph , who believed that the key to performing this wittiest of farces was in the technique . |
| 4 | In the central square a game of boules was in progress under the critical gaze of a group of shirt-sleeved men in baggy trousers , cropped heads enveloped in the pungent smoke from their Gauloises , glasses clutched in brawny fists . |
| 5 | Since our sample was self-selected it is impossible to say what proportion of the total number of self-evaluation activities it represents , or whether the range of activities is in any way typical . |
| 6 | On 27th May 1854 while the Board of Guardians was in session a message was passed in to say that two persons from St. Cuthbert with smallpox had just been brought to the workhouse . |
| 7 | The Scottish League Management Committee yesterday claimed the vast majority of clubs were in favour of expanding the number of senior clubs to a total of 40 , however . |
| 8 | However , closer inspection suggested that the volume of groans was in inverse proportion to the extent of the damage and Owen soon pushed them away . |
| 9 | A whole new tragic category of bankrupts are in the making . |
| 10 | Some words of warning on the subject of pictures are in order at this point . |
| 11 | The world of books was in fact the world of luxury to them . |
| 12 | In Bath ( Chris Patten , party chairman , majority 1,412 ) the biggest chunk of homes is in the top band . |
| 13 | In a place like Kingston-upon-Hull in Humberside , 68% of homes are in the lowest ( £40,000 and under ) band , and fewer than 1% are in either of the top two bands ( more than £120,000 ) . |
| 14 | Faced with examples like this , the semanticist has traditionally taken one of two tacks : he can either hold that there are two distinct senses of the word and , which is thus simply ambiguous , or he can claim that the meanings of words are in general vague and protean and are influenced by collocational environments . |
| 15 | The top tier of hangars was in darkness . |
| 16 | Fidelity believes it breaks new ground by getting over the problem that has stopped unit trusts from showing any real growth since the Great Crash five years ago namely that 90pc of unit trusts are in high risk equities , whereas 90pc of savings are in low risk investments such as banks or building societies . |
| 17 | As is clear from the foregoing account , perhaps the most complex and difficult task which faces many , if not most , directors of polytechnics is in establishing good and effective relationships with their local authorities . |
| 18 | For this reason the range of offices was in some ways wider than we would think normal in a modern bureaucracy ; and , since the winning of support was quite as important as the conduct of business , influential men were able to accumulate posts . |
| 19 | But the really surprising thing about the research is how similar the two sets of readers are in their tastes . |
| 20 | These graduate from N36 to N5 which is the size of print found in the standard telephone directory ; the first books in the ‘ Ladybird ’ series of readers are in N36 print . |
| 21 | Almost all of the designated districts had declared at least one improvement area , and about one-quarter of declarations were in commercial or commercial/ industrial areas . |
| 22 | The most marked change however which is obviously connected with the smaller number of candidates is in the number of lost deposits which were only 35 against 64 . |
| 23 | The main differences between specialists studying different types of finds is in the scientific methods of analysis available . |
| 24 | The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised . |
| 25 | The first of these is that what we refer to as the ‘ supply ’ of bills is in fact a stock , rather than a flow . |
| 26 | The fact that the efficiency of rivets was in no way improved by capping them with precious metal provides another indication of the limitations of material factors in accounting for technical innovation . |
| 27 | Nearly 17 per cent of Indians are in Birmingham and Coventry , with most of the rest in West Yorkshire , and the East Midlands . |
| 28 | This would represent a fall compared to the full-year figure for 1991 , but Greenpeace claims that the actual level of imports is in fact much higher because HMIP 's data collection is inadequate . |
| 29 | The principal weakness of these provisions is that companies ( especially , but not exclusively , private ones ) are deplorably dilatory in delivering returns to the Registrar so that at any one time a majority of companies are in arrear to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 30 | The Museum Documentation Centre in Zagreb and the Institute for the Protection of Monuments are in constant touch with UNESCO , ICOM , ARCH and other institutions involved in the protection of cultural property . |