Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm by way of being a bit of an expert on the moor , you know . " |
| 2 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 3 | I realised that I was in danger of being fooled by the maps . |
| 4 | What I was in search of was my son . |
| 5 | I fancy you are by way of being a professional photographer , Mr Kleiber ? ’ |
| 6 | At this rate , she thought , she was in danger of being found snoozing gently the next morning at the scene of the crime . |
| 7 | And , and I I think we 're in danger of being complacent over the D S O. Now I have over many years been involved with the D S O , and er , and I I support their efforts . |
| 8 | The details held against books and the people they are on loan to are very detailed . |
| 9 | But when they fly home to Karachi at the end of the month they are in danger of being remembered as cricket 's chumps , not champs . |
| 10 | The independent schemes , like ourselves , need help or they are in danger of being squeezed out . |
| 11 | Asylum procedures exist to ensure the protection of those genuinely at risk , but they are in danger of being undermined by those who see them as an alternative channel for immigration . |
| 12 | But the best form of support for her is of course to be found in the framework of an affectionate and united family who will make sure that she is not too lonely and can help her to rebuild her social life . |
| 13 | The strikers , protesting against the threat of compulsory redundancies , gave leaflets to customers looking at the Mondeo on its promotion day , pointing out that many of the skills which went into it were in danger of being wiped out . |
| 14 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 15 | It is difficult not to see the seeds of authoritarianism in this thinking : Rougemont says , ‘ C'est pour obéir que nous sommes libres ’ : it is in order to be able to obey that we are free . |
| 16 | It is in fact to be very dogmatic and to try to say something about every other way of knowledge , and every other thing to be known . |
| 17 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's by way of being her foster-son . ’ |
| 19 | It was by way of being a royal command . |
| 20 | Although the three earlier poems had been highly praised and widely read — their reception , Hayward told Frank Morley , had boosted Eliot 's reputation at a time when it was in danger of being obscured by younger poets — he was unable to finish the sequence . |
| 21 | These books played a part in establishing a sense of historical continuity in the feminist movement , and they helped to rescue the constitutionalist women 's suffrage movement from the oblivion to which it was in danger of being consigned by the more flamboyant reputation of Emmeline Pankhurst [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | The Royal Commission did , however , recognise that custody and charge would not necessarily coincide , and that there might be intervals of time whilst the suspect was under arrest but not yet charged , and whilst he was on bail after being charged ; and the recommendation was made that the prohibition of questioning should also apply to these periods . |
| 23 | Finally , with considerable reluctance , I suggested that his faith seemed to have very little foundation and that without more understanding to match his enthusiasm he was in danger of being tripped by the questions of life — let alone by those of his fellow students . |
| 24 | A WINDSURFER was rescued off the Essex coast yesterday as he was in danger of being driven on to rocks . |
| 25 | ‘ She liked to believe he was in line to be the next PM . |
| 26 | ULSTER Unionist councillor John Adams today dampened speculation that he was in line to be Londonderry 's next deputy mayor . |
| 27 | It will be pleasing if the features of this sketch seem intuitively natural , as indeed we would claim , but justification for them is of course to be sought primarily in the observations of Chapters 2 to 10 and the way that these observations fit our assumptions about the bases of adjectival syntax . |