Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's only been with me six weeks . |
| 2 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 3 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 4 | His jotting pad was covered with hot-air balloons , intricately patterned and decorated ; part of his mind had obviously been with his private passion . |
| 5 | Corporatism is designed to sustain the existing economic system by securing the co-operation of labour in policies for incomes , prices , profits and dividends which can only be against its long-term interests ( Panitch 1979 ; Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Where the book falls down is in its idiosyncratic layout and the poor quality of the colour reproductions ( I refer to the Flammarion edition ) . |
| 7 | Brian Long was in his previous job for 35 years . |
| 8 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 9 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 10 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 11 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 12 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 13 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 14 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 15 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 16 | ‘ Brother Tutilo has not been in my especial care until this journey , ’ he said carefully , ‘ but I have always found him truly devoted to our house of Ramsey . |
| 17 | ‘ You , that have not been near me all day , and would n't have been if I was dying ! ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 19 | This is a considerable sum , but the struggling mother would not be without her hungry family . |
| 20 | They frequently have to deal with awkward and unpleasant problems which may or may not be of their own making . |
| 21 | When I die it will not be by my own hand , but fighting for my country . ’ |
| 22 | If those criteria had been adhered to , many people would not be in their present position . |
| 23 | What was significant about the Banstead strategy in this respect was that offering continued inpatient care to ‘ decantees ’ was presented by psychiatrists as a protection of patients ' rights , particularly the right to stay in hospital where , they argued , ‘ many resist any suggestion that they should leave the hospital and also become more ill when such suggestions are made … to press such a matter against the patients ’ will would certainly not be in their best interests ' . |
| 24 | Perhaps — just perhaps — your Higher Self knows that realising this Dream would not be in your best interests right now ? |
| 25 | As I was saying , that would certainly not be in your best interests . ’ |
| 26 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |
| 27 | Bach has always been among my major loves . |
| 28 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 29 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 30 | I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life . |