Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [conj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , the overall management of an organisation that is in many ways similar to a small hotel or guest house , where most of the guests are extremely frail elderly people . |
| 2 | The major reasons for a care order are that the children have themselves committed an offence , they are in need of care , protection and control , or they or another child of the same family have been victims of an offence or are in the same household as a person convicted of a serious offence such as manslaughter , cruelty or suchlike . |
| 3 | He kissed her with an expertise that was outside her experience , with a knowledge that was never learned from any book , and , much to her surprise , she felt a stab of jealousy for all those other women who must have stood as she stood now , arms round his strong frame , mouth ravaged by his skill . |
| 4 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 5 | This started at 2.30 pm , lasted for an hour and was under the direction of Mr. Ernest Russ , our Headmaster . |
| 6 | Like the FAOR Field Trial ( Chapt 10 ) it took place in an establishment that was under the control of a Social Services Department . |
| 7 | Working in an industry that is in decline in an area where alternative employment is scarce makes job loss and consequent financial difficulty increasingly probable . |
| 8 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
| 9 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 10 | Acid plus an alkali that 's about the easiest one . |
| 11 | I stopped for a bite at an eating-place that was in a huge hove-bubble , drifting slowly about the roof-tops along one of the main spiral streets intersecting the city centre . |