Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 2 | His snores are thunder in the night . |
| 3 | There has also been centralization in the public services . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , Sergei and I are kind of symbols . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes they 're just aesthetically pleasing things ; some of the old Gretsch amplifiers and that kind of thing are kind of cool to look at . |
| 6 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 7 | what somebody said that the , sometimes the pupil 's comments are kind of as Andrew pointed out earlier that er |
| 8 | There are other reasons as well , things like peace and tranquillity er time to reflect er and yeah there are other motivations as well which you , if you like , are kind of negative . |
| 9 | So in effect there are kind of like negative motivating factors which is basically all to do about escape where you do n't care where you go as long as you get away from here . |
| 10 | A taboo is something beyond reason and as we saw , what Freud does in the book is compare it with neurotic prohibitions which are kind of personal taboos , and in fact the sub-title of the book is some points of agreement between the mental lives of savages and neurotics . |
| 11 | Other groups however , possibly smaller ones or more erm or , or more er or ones that are kind of more fired up with er , wi wi with with feelings of group membership , you find the opposite , you find stronger identifications , more emphasis on leaders and consequently followers . |
| 12 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
| 13 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 14 | There is absolutely no question that there are kind of money advice people in the City sitting around with nothing to do , quite the contrary , so I mean it 's not a duplication , erm and of course we make sure that we that all the people involved in money advice within the City , whether funded directly or indirectly by the City Council , work with each other and co-operate with each other and form a network . |
| 15 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 16 | NCR Corp 's Microelectronic Products Division in Colorado Springs , Colorado has joined forces with Corel Corp , Ottawa , Ontario to support and advance SCSI disk controller technology : included are support for the interoperability of CorelSCSI software and NCR 's Small Computer System Interface Device Management System software , and CorelSCSI 's use of the NCR 53C810 PCI/SCSI controller for Peripheral Component Interconnect machines . |
| 17 | The first 11 cantos are preparation of the palette . |
| 18 | I am mistress of this house and I have to see that all is well . ’ |
| 19 | Robert de Niro has always been case as the Invisible Man of Hollywood . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been progress of the Great Britain Education Bill with a view to ensuring that , as far as possible , parents of children with special educational needs in Northern Ireland enjoy the same rights as those in England and Wales . ’ |
| 21 | There will have been progress on the creation of a single European market , especially in financial services . |
| 22 | A further consequence arising from studies of process has paradoxically been progress towards a more integrated approach because investigations of one specific process have often proceeded to encompass other processes in the way that soil process investigations have become involved with hillslope processes and with plant-soil moisture relationships and also with boundary layer climatology . |
| 23 | Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes . |
| 24 | There has been progress in the integration of community languages into the mainstream curriculum but the progress is pitifully slow , with a number of factors compounding a lack of confidence amongst those campaigning for greater sensitivity towards and encouragement of the forms of language brought by pupils into British Schools . |
| 25 | If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him . |
| 26 | There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race . |
| 27 | In the past few years , however , there has been progress in the systematic analysis of qualitative data using a variety of specially written computer programs . |
| 28 | There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 . |
| 29 | But although there is immunocytochemical evidence for NO synthase in hippocampal interneurons , there has been difficulty in obtaining evidence for its expression in pyramidal or granule cells . |
| 30 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |