Example sentences of "are [det] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sand dunes and beaches are few in Sussex . |
| 2 | Despite its low capital costs , the opportunities for such a system are few in Britain . |
| 3 | Rothstein argues that patron-client relationships are well suited to the peripheral capitalist development that has taken place in Latin America because they are a way of paring down the number of recipients of industrial gains , when these gains are few in number . |
| 4 | Fortunately they are few in number , but I 'm sorry to say they will always be around . |
| 5 | The Law Lords were and are few in number ; they tend to sit , otherwise than in the Judicial Committee , rarely . |
| 6 | Surviving eyewitnesses are few in number , and give contradictory descriptions of the killer , but all agree on his unnatural strength and viciousness . |
| 7 | Over the millennia they have slowly done so , and now there are once more prosperous cities in the west , and although the folk are few in number , they are hardy . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , I think they are few in number ; they are mainly young intellectuals who might have had a career but now can not . |
| 9 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 10 | Though lithographs by Minton are few in number , he became fascinated by the medium , and on 24 November 1948 took part in a Third Programme broadcast on the subject , timed to coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ 150 Years of Lithography ’ . |
| 11 | are few in number ( 84 , most of them Roman Catholic ) , and they arose from the government 's offer in 1936 to pay 50–75% of the cost of building new secondary schools . |
| 12 | Commercial enquiries are few in number , and are either charged for or dealt with in a quid pro quo manner . |
| 13 | Stem cells , which are few in number and intermediate transit cells , which have limited proliferative capacity , occupy the lower two thirds of each crypt . |
| 14 | Mosher claims the abortions are still going on , but are fewer in number — women are taking to the hills and giving birth under primitive conditions . |
| 15 | There are Dwarf settlements within the mountains , but these are fewer in number and less wealthy than the mighty Dwarf Holds of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 16 | The subset containing fabliaux with lavatory humour , tales concerning basic bodily functions of excretion or flatulence , are fewer in number . |
| 17 | Are these in America ? |
| 18 | Its rear legs have joined the general staff , who are all in discussion with their backs towards me . |
| 19 | The issue is not whether the UK should back nuclear safety research at Ispra ( those of us in the field in the UK are all in favour of that ) , but whether the majority of the resources ( and even an increase in the planned budget ) should be concentrated on a single project which can not possibly give results until late 1986 . |
| 20 | The European parliament , Community of European Railways and Round Table of European Industrialists are all in favour of a special European infrastructure fund for rail development and the removal of transport bottlenecks at , for example , the English Channel and the Straits of Messina . |
| 21 | Fortunately most old people are all in favour of precautions of any kind , and if , in addition , you can tell her truthfully that you have just such a ‘ hospital case ’ packed for yourself at home , for an emergency , she will probably go along with the idea very willingly . |
| 22 | Governor Bill Stewart said : ‘ We are all in favour of prisoners studying the works of great writers . |
| 23 | Those potential students are all in favour of the idea . |
| 24 | France , Italy , Holland and Spain are all in recession . |
| 25 | Mainly designed by Lutyens , these cases and movements are all in working order and were a combined gift to the Queen from the London and Paris workshops of Cartier Ltd . |
| 26 | Make a list of the permitted aids and make sure that they are all in working order . |
| 27 | Well I 'll listen to two o'clock in the morning when yous are all in bed . |
| 28 | I 'll try it in the morning when yous are all in bed . |
| 29 | Pure Przewalski 's horses , genetically the closest to the wild progenitors of domestic breeds , are all in zoos . |
| 30 | Peter Davenport , John Colquhoun and David Rush are all in competition for Byrne 's place at Oxford on Saturday . |