Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 2 | TRANSPLANT patient Lisa Strange , 12 , was fighting for her life yesterday after being given a new heart and lungs . |
| 3 | And Apple ( the name was inspired by a Magritte painting that McCartney had recently acquired ) was born out of that sense that the Beatles had to start taking responsibility for their world instead of being acted upon by a panoply of ‘ men in grey suits ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's asking a bit much of my brain even to be compos mentis , let alone capable of storming anything . ’ |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 7 | The search for Surere , the first of its kind ever to be conducted by the Medjays , had been organised with precision by Merymose . |
| 8 | By consequence of his inaction , he is the only leading communist of his generation today to be completely untainted by the 1956 uprising and its aftermath . |
| 9 | Comprising eight installations selected from a working career of fifteen years , the exhibition is the most comprehensive survey of his art yet to be mounted , and has been organised in conjunction with the Kunsthalle in Basel , where it was seen in April and May . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 11 | She was beginning to tackle the problem in her quietly determined way , by suggesting a movie or a shopping trip to one or two of the quieter girls in the nurses ' home , and by spending more time chatting with her patients instead of being simply a sympathetic presence . |
| 12 | With his plans close to being finalised , Peckham is diplomatic . |
| 13 | A year later , they were still in his mind when thinking simply of western civilization ; the Papuans came into his memory only to be cursorily dismissed as ‘ weak inaudible voices ’ . |
| 14 | How could the best interests of the children be served by tearing them from their beds and flying them away from their island home to be completely separated from everything dear and familiar . |
| 15 | No French cantatas are as tonally wayward , although the keys chosen for the principal movements in the first book ( 1706 ) of Jean-Baptiste Stuck , one of the pioneers of the genre , and who claimed in his preface simply to be joining French words to Italian music , hint at a similar approach ( table 1 ) . |
| 16 | Try saying what is in your heart instead of being so timid . ’ |
| 17 | If your joints are good , no cramping is necessary but I did put a couple of webbing cramps on my chair just to be on the safe side . |
| 18 | The animal bounced back to its feet only to be killed by a bus . |
| 19 | She knew how Beth had gone to the lodging house on the night when her own father disowned her ; how she had run to her lover only to be turned away from there broken-hearted when the girl claimed that Tyler was the father of her own mythical child . |
| 20 | ‘ Problem pages ’ in the women 's and youth magazines carried letters from unhappy girls who had ‘ given themselves ’ to their boyfriends subsequently to be abandoned and labelled as a ‘ package of dirty linen ’ . |
| 21 | Rome , in short , lived on its past simply by being a capital city . |
| 22 | Later one of the day boys , on his way home after being kept in , saw an empty bottle of Smirnoff 's in the long grass near the drive . |
| 23 | Mrs Clamp maintains that my father ought to have put the dog down years before all this happened , but I think the wet-jowled , yellow-bleary-eyed , fishy-smelling old hound must have worked on his sympathy just by being so repulsive . |
| 24 | SCHOOLBOY Carl Leadbetter was fighting for his life yesterday after being mown down by joyriders . |
| 25 | Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare . |
| 26 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 27 | After being virtually the first dealer at his firm to pass the Registered Representatives ' and Traders ' examination , he was applauded by his colleagues only to be shunted off the sales desk into the back office . |