Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
| 2 | I hope that this has been of some help if you were not too sure of which rib to use on what occasion . |
| 3 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 4 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 5 | The King of the Tipsters has been in unstoppable form since he struck with another 4-1 shot , Pursuit Of Love , at Doncaster last week . |
| 6 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 7 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 8 | There was no equivalent of the ATB in Norway — the nearest approach seen was at Lien College where there was a low trainee to instructor ratio and a considerable practical input . |
| 9 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 10 | ‘ The brilliant inventiveness of the engineers and scientists … would have been of little avail if this strong industrial base had not existed . ’ |
| 11 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 12 | ‘ All the coaches in the world would n't have been of any use if you had n't had courage . |
| 13 | Now people th people there , those people would have been in dire trouble if there had n't been somebody who could do that . |
| 14 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
| 15 | Must have been in this room when I got here . |
| 16 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 17 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 18 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 19 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 20 | The barrier had been in perfect order when I arrived — boards secure , nailheads flush — so through I 'd come , tugging it all closed behind me . |
| 21 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 22 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |
| 23 | really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought |
| 24 | We 've been to one town where many have closed down , and others are struggling to keep their heads above water … |
| 25 | I 've been in that block since it was built , it suits me fine . |
| 26 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 27 | Of course , the information they glean is of little value if the Goblin is pulverised as he impacts with the ground . |
| 28 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 29 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
| 30 | Others who have been in permanent employment as nurses have found the restrictions of poor pay and stringent working conditions too harsh . |