Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 2 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 3 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 4 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 5 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 6 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 7 | Except treasury bonds , no bonds may be publicly bought and sold unless the issuer has been in business for over a year , the prospectus has been appropriately published and the issue is gone through an issuing house , and the prospectus has been approved by the Authority . |
| 8 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 9 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 10 | If on the other hand you frequently send out stories which will be of interest to quite a wide selection of the media it will take too long to go through a large directory and jot down the names every time . |
| 11 | Police believe she will be in hospital for about a week . |
| 12 | Used to cry her eyes out sometimes when she 'd had a few , and say she 'd be in purgatory for about a million years . |
| 13 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 14 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 15 | One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it . |
| 16 | At the end of July and beginning of August a group of six Drouot experts , headed by the president of the company Joël-Marie Millon , were in Moscow for almost a week offering free estimates to the Muscovites on their works of art , antiques and jewellery . |
| 17 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 18 | By 1983 , unemployment had reached over 12 per cent , and long-term unemployment ( defined as being without work for over a year ) had emerged as a significant economic and social issue . |
| 19 | US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name . |
| 20 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 21 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 22 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
| 23 | Yesterday an investigation was under way into how a syringe came into Newall 's possession in spite of his being kept alone and under special surveillance . |
| 24 | She was in depression for about a year . |
| 25 | He was in hospital for nearly a month , and I never saw him until the day I got out . |
| 26 | Mr Reynolds however was in hospital for over a week before having an operation to remove a carcinoma from his bowel . |
| 27 | She was in hospital for almost a year and now lives with her son in an adapted bungalow for disabled people run by social services in Gwent . |