Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being in The Birthday Party , where everybody wanted their part to be as loud as is humanly possible , it 's quite refreshing to find someone who does n't even care if he 's on the record or not ! ’ |
| 2 | Must of been in the side pocket . |
| 3 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 4 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 5 | Erm and they will want the prestige of being on the golf club and quite honestly , the golf club card , and quite honestly so does the golf club want |
| 6 | If David Cork carries on playing like that , then he could be looking at a new contract instead of being on the transfer list . |
| 7 | The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ . |
| 8 | Police also arrested Francis Minnah , then First Vice-President , who was accused of being behind the coup attempt . |
| 9 | Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football . |
| 10 | Joan Church was unanimously elected president for the centenary year after years of being among the backroom army of women helpers . |
| 11 | Do you think some female musicians sacrifice their femininity for the sake of being in a rock group ? |
| 12 | The little details she slips in become almost unbearable : a teenage boy who weighs no more than a wooden Buddha ; a fisherwoman raging at the routine indignities of being in a hospital bed . |
| 13 | Educate them early of the benefits of being in a trade union . |
| 14 | In figure 8.2 , the effect of being in the service class on the chances of attending selective secondary school is denoted b 1 , and the effect of being in the intermediate class is denoted b 2 . |
| 15 | In this particular example , path b 1 represents the effect of being in the service class as opposed to being in the working class on the chances of attending a selective secondary school . |
| 16 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 17 | I 'm tired of being in the public eye . |
| 18 | He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’ |
| 19 | It was mentioned above that employees are subject to company power in the sense of being in an authority relationship with the employer . |
| 20 | Effectively you ‘ field ’ their excuse , just like being on a cricket field and throwing back a ball that 's been hit towards you . |
| 21 | ‘ That was brilliant fun , ’ says Carolyn , ‘ like being on a drag hunt in the middle of London . ’ |
| 22 | Trisha says this was an emotional as well as a physical reality : ‘ This feeling of being out of control is like being on a roller coaster — there 's no way out . ’ |
| 23 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 24 | ‘ Gee , it 's like being in a waiting room , the doctor will see you now . ’ |
| 25 | It 's great it 's just like being in a video game except you 're completely involved in it . |
| 26 | It 's great it 's just like being in a video game except you 're completely involved in it . |
| 27 | Yesterday he described his ordeal as ‘ like being in a tumble drier on full speed ’ . |
| 28 | It was like being in the Twilight zone . ’ |
| 29 | As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States . |
| 30 | Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory . |