Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are n't Time Lords supposed to be above that sort of language ? ’ |
| 2 | While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've had a bad start , and you 're not going to be over this illness in a couple of days , but I 'm sure you can beat it . |
| 4 | I prefer not to be under any obligation to you . ’ |
| 5 | He did n't look to be under any pressure at all . |
| 6 | However slight the contact may seem to be between certain levels of government policy-making and the work of teaching , managers of education at school level would be better placed if teachers were at least aware that programmes such as those connected with the TVEI can be altered by ministerial will — and can have their funding reduced . |
| 7 | In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures . |
| 8 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 9 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 10 | It is more likely to be about sore things from childhood , which we were not allowed properly to experience or mourn : or we may have been too young in emotional or physical development to cope . |
| 11 | The maximal aerobic speed , that is the maximal speed that can be maintained without incurring an oxygen debt , appears generally to be about one half of the maximal running speed . |
| 12 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 14 | I see only two men , and a bridge too low yet to be of much use to anyone . |
| 15 | This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school . |
| 16 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 17 | It is important to make the correct diagnosis , for fungal treatments are unlikely to be of much use against bacteria and vice versa . |
| 18 | A planning process which fails to accept this … is unlikely to be of much use in the realities of business life . |
| 19 | Secretion of bile is not usually considered to be of much importance in this response since the gall bladder procides a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum at mealtime . |
| 20 | Water quality does not appear to be of great concern to these hardy fish , although an approximate simulation of Amazonian habitats does encourage them to exhibit better coloration . |
| 21 | Because the authors perceive oral communication to be of great significance in business , they further recommend that : |
| 22 | There is no doubt that gas has proved to be of great benefit to the Netherlands but as in the case of the UK , with its North Sea oil bonanza , various consequences of hydrocarbon wealth , such as a strengthening home currency , tended to precipitate industrial decline in some sectors of the economy and in the case of the Netherlands , the costs of developing a gas infrastructure outweighed the return for some years . |
| 23 | This principle is unlikely to be of great relevance in cases for the protection of business secrets . |
| 24 | It was to be of great importance to countries like France and Switzerland where a shortage of mineral fuels could be offset by an abundance of hydroelectric power . |
| 25 | Sheep used to be of great importance to the British economy . |
| 26 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 27 | The Kingman Report proved to be of great value to my Working Group . |
| 28 | One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion . |
| 29 | Such an intellectual process is likely to be of great value in business organisations which have a tendency to be long on action , but short on thought ! |
| 30 | The economy , versatility and ease of use of these systems has proved to be of real benefit in designing their domestic and commercial structures . |