Someone in partnership with another was "in" these, probably from the French for "hut"
[DOC] [TLE] The Grammar Logs -- Number Four Hundred, Fifty-Seven [PAR] Oct 10, 2001 ... That's probably not true of your first sentence, but it would be true, ... so we need 
a third-person verb, "is," and the predicate should be in the ... Would the verb in 
the following sentence be singular or plural and why.