Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so I am rather like the doctor by the patient 's bedside , who knows ; although of course he does not tell the patient — that the outcome of the disease will depend upon something in the constitution of that patient which he can not control nor further influence and which he can not even ascertain , except by the event . |
| 2 | We are rather at the point of arguing that the state , and in particular its bureaucracy , may be free from subordination and manipulation by the ruling class in order to preserve its interests in the long run and as a whole . |
| 3 | In the case of the evidence produced by informal interviews we , the readers , are rather in the position of hearing a case put by only one counsel and not the other . |
| 4 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 5 | Later , in the 1840 s , Emil Du Bois-Reymond ( 1818–96 ) showed experimentally that the impulses travelling along nerves are rather like the flow of electrical currents along a wire ( the similarity is in fact even closer than he imagined ) . |
| 6 | These are rather like the process of bereavement , with shock , denial , guilt and unhappiness , acceptance and resignation . |
| 7 | Yeah , I mean , the next pubs are right over the side of the hospital , |
| 8 | The student chooses their own subject ; most of these subjects are right on the fringes of the course , or overlap several different courses , and what surprised me when I sent round a questionnaire was how much the students said they enjoyed essay-writing . |
| 9 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 10 | So I think I made this point before that the people who are right at the top of politics are the ones who are very good at flattery , duplicity , manipulation and so on and these , are these really the qualities we want in our government ? |
| 11 | Images of parties and party leaders are right at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 12 | And the French are right at the forefront of design again . |
| 13 | Having said all that , the famous Ipsos nightlife is practically on the doorstep as these apartments are right in the middle of town . |
| 14 | These two buildings , owned and managed by the Kendler family , are right in the middle of St Gilgen , and only two minutes walk from the lake and promenade . |
| 15 | The important thing about these volcanoes is that since they are right in the middle of the Pacific , they are basaltic , and their basalts are hot and very fluid . |
| 16 | ‘ We are right in the middle of watching one of our favourite programmes , ’ Mr Wormwood said . |
| 17 | It will probably start on Boxing Day when we are right in the middle of winter . |
| 18 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 19 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 20 | I am blatantly against the use of monkey climbers because small movements can be undetected which in turn could lead to deep hooked pike . |
| 21 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 22 | The third category , 98 sheets , are mostly in the Highlands of Scotland : they scored low in comparison with the sheets chosen for full or part resurvey . |
| 23 | Since the SADS-L is normally used in a face-to-face interview situation these items are mostly in the form of questions and here the original wording was retained . |
| 24 | Perhaps we think our friends see us as calm and capable while we know that we are secretly in a state of panic . |
| 25 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 26 | I believe the walls at the the foot are somewhere in the region of nineteen feet thick . |
| 27 | Can you see the sand on this path where the water 's been right over the top of it ? |
| 28 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
| 29 | I think we 'd have been right up the creek without the paddle ! |
| 30 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |