Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 2 | ‘ God sent all artists here because it can be such a drag to be on this planet , ’ said the star . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 4 | However , there are also advantages in being of this gender . |
| 5 | For Kelsen , the dynamic principle is characteristic of legal positivism which understands law to be in some sense a product of human acts and decisions rather than a deduction from timeless and immutable principles . |
| 6 | It was always my dream to be in that situation . |
| 7 | Most of the systems , including the spectronic destabilizer ( handy for blasting planets ) , were too large scale in their effects to be of any use in this situation . |
| 8 | The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair . |
| 9 | 3. it will be understood by its observers to be of this character . |
| 10 | This was the time that Farnborough was the place to be for many reasons . |
| 11 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 12 | It 's just those few , committed capitalists that see profits as the only , the only motive to be on this earth , that seem to be , was was they seem to have the influence in this in this country , and and like er , I 'm I 'm hoping that this er , er British Government objection to the Court of Justice does fail , as as is er suggested it may do , erm , and let's let's hope it does , and let's hope that we get this er , implemented . |
| 13 | The Statements of Attainment need to be in some ways " unpacked " in relation to the chosen programme of study and reordered not in sequence of difficulty but in terms of their place in the programme to ensure that opportunities for assessment are capitalised upon . |
| 14 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 15 | All them things in there that 's no business to be in that carrier . |
| 16 | She was thrilled with the suffragettes ' tenacity and the expression it gave to her feelings about being in some kind of sexual trap . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the most beautiful things about being in this business is that you get to meet your musical heroes . |
| 18 | And there 's wi wide er , spread unemployment and there 's the stress of being as that lady said , a single parent , erm , for women who work and have families they have their old conflict between what they 're doing , doing at home and what they 're doing at their work and who should have a priority . |
| 19 | It really gives me a kick to be of some use like this . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't believe that I am really going to have the chance to be in this movie . |
| 21 | My dealer lacks sufficient knowledge to be of any help . |
| 22 | The matter particles are described by fields of one-half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle , which prevents more than one particle of a given kind from being in any state . |
| 23 | he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the ( non-visitor ) is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case , whether the ( non-visitor ) has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and |
| 24 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |
| 25 | What was your role to be in this operation ? |
| 26 | There is , however , some evidence of Eisenhower 's own dismay when he found Anglo-American relations to be in such disarray in 1953 . |
| 27 | 'she wanted an excuse to be at that bus-stop when Billy got off , because she knew what was going to happen . |
| 28 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 29 | ‘ Whatever Scotland 's team , I want us to be creative enough to make the Maltese worry without being in any way self conscious about problems that are in the past , ’ concluded the national coach . |
| 30 | Yeah , really it 's a frustrating end of it , but working for Time gives me the opportunity to be in these countries and to do a good photoreportage on the country , even though it 's very rarely published . |