Example sentences of "to be [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that any so called sport which involves the exhaustion , distress and eventual death of an animal has got to be obscene in the eyes of any human being . |
| 2 | But that is a very different matter from the exegetically unjustified expedient adopted by some modern students of mission , of divorcing the Spirit from Jesus , evading the scandal of his particularity , and attributing to the Spirit 's agency whatever seems to them to be admirable in the beliefs and practice of other faiths . |
| 3 | Erm , we need to be convincing in challenge , otherwise the challenge , erm , we should question whether there is a need for any change , erm , if things have been done in a certain way for a certain period of time , erm , just because we want to change them , does n't mean to say that it does n't |
| 4 | ( Inimical means that certain remedies have been found to be similar in their action that prescribing them in succession leads to aggravation e.g. Mercury and Silica should n't follow each other without interposing some other remedy ) 2 ) The beauty of the LM system is encompassed in its ability to fulfill §.2 of The Organon : |
| 5 | When it comes to the obvious sources of power , gender differences seem to be similar in socialist Cuba to capitalist Latin America . |
| 6 | The situation appears to be similar in UK public libraries , where a survey by Capital planning Information found that one-third of 32 library authorities surveyed had some form of selection policy . |
| 7 | It would appear to be similar in principle to electro-acupuncture . |
| 8 | The new breakfast news station is expected to be similar in style to the TV-am format and much less formal than the BBC 's rigid Breakfast News show . |
| 9 | When Ps. lanisticola was first described by Dr Warren Burgess in 1976 , the hobby was in general not impressed , as the new species was said to be similar in appearance to livingstonii with the main difference being in the dentition . |
| 10 | Because here your situation , the murder that has been committed , is if anything more static , and your detective 's progress towards unravelling it is liable to become a rather dull series of minor discoveries , often arising from interviews which tend to be similar in pattern . |
| 11 | Ophiopristis does seem to be similar in appearance to Ophiologimus H. L. Clark , 1911 but differs mainly in the form of the tentacle pore which is slightly smaller with larger tentacle scales than Ophiologimus . |
| 12 | the cell cycle time was estimated to be similar in both regions of mucosa , but the crypt turnover time seemed to be significantly longer ( 28.1 days ) in gastric body than in antral ( 11.5 days ) mucosa . |
| 13 | But since the examination is testing what skills you have developed over time , the passage is likely to be similar in some way to passages which you have seen . |
| 14 | The situation seems to be similar in other parts of the country . |
| 15 | Transcript abundance appeared to be similar in both life cycle stages ( RNA loading checked using the actin gene ( 31 ) as a control probe ( Fig. 4B ) ) . |
| 16 | The resistance R and reactance X therefore follow from application of the relations For good accuracy , needs to be similar in magnitude to R and X. If not , small errors in the phasor diagram due to small measurement errors may lead to large errors in R and/or X. Of course , the r.m.s. current could be measured separately by inserting a suitable a.c. meter in series with the circuit . |
| 17 | Dalton was fond of contrasting these numbers with the half million total troops thought likely to be necessary in peacetime by the war-time Coalition Government . |
| 18 | However , this was definitely secondary to the manpower approach , though again Dalton liked to contrast actual levels of expenditure with the £500 million which the Coalition had thought likely to be necessary in peacetime , pointing out in early 1947 that the current level of expenditure at over £800 million meant 2s. in the pound extra on the income tax in comparison with the Coalition figure . |
| 19 | It did n't look as if that particular conversation was going to be necessary in this case . |
| 20 | For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement . |
| 21 | It corresponds to what Gandhi conceives to be necessary in the quest for Truth . |
| 22 | Clearly a more concerted approach is seen to be necessary in order to secure property from potential consigners . |
| 23 | Further discussion is shown to be necessary in recognizing that ‘ child abuse is centrally concerned with debates about the way we bring up children and is hence centrally concerned with child care ’ . |
| 24 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 25 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 26 | However , such reduction pronunciations appear to be necessary in order to access and represent alternative alignments ( e.g. a name for … /and aim for ) . |
| 27 | Although our understanding is far from complete , there are many valuable pointers to the elements likely to be necessary in effective prevention . |
| 28 | Retailers expect a bigger improvement in June , but their expectations have proved to be over-optimistic in the past two months . |
| 29 | These heavy round-arched stations were to be influential in Ontario , Canada , in the same period , and the Romanesque , rarely among station styles , proved amenable to both small- and large-scale treatment . |
| 30 | Suffice it to say that a company may use public relations activities , and what is called " corporate advertising " to try to build up an image in the minds of target individuals and groups who are likely to be influential in purchase decision-making . |