Example sentences of "be [prep] the [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | are we , we 're in the semi-finals so if we win that |
| 2 | So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know . |
| 3 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |
| 4 | In the 1910 general election the Conservatives ’ main gains had been in the counties generally and the southern counties in particular . |
| 5 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 6 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 7 | " At the east end modern windows are made to the kitchen and chamber , over which are yet to be seen part of three antient lancet windows of the chancel , the center one somewhat higher and larger than the other two ; which were before the alterations deep and narrow . |
| 8 | They were on the stairs again before Lizzie spoke , when she said , ‘ He 'll ruin her if you 're not careful . |
| 9 | That 's for the cops now but they do n't seem to be worried . |
| 10 | It is for the linguists rather than the anthropologists to tell us how language originated and how language is generated by human brains . |
| 11 | That 's in the shops today and you can win that video , you can win that video this afternoon . |
| 12 | The ‘ writtenness ’ of the apostolic tradition was of the accidents rather than the substance of the apostolic proclamation concerning Christ . |
| 13 | At first the difficulty was with the mahouts rather than the koonkies . |
| 14 | Sympathy was with the generals rather than the Prime Minister , hardly surprisingly in view of past events , but sympathy never went far enough to weaken Lloyd George 's position greatly . |
| 15 | In Montfort 's subsequent regime , although involved in negotiations with the Marcher barons and with the increasingly disaffected Gilbert de Clare , his role was in the provinces rather than at court , in part perhaps because of his comparative youth . |
| 16 | This all reflects the important part that political organizations played in the Edwardian era , for when politicians needed means of communication and organization in a time of crisis it was to the parties rather than to the state that they turned for the machinery and the expertise ; it was not to be the same in 1939 , with consequent effects on the state of the local parties by 1945 . |
| 17 | The actual information you quote my Lord was n't known to me erm it was on the cards certainly and all this information was passed to Superintendent . |