Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anticoagulant drugs safe enough for long term use to help prevent heart disease are under development by almost every drug company , Huber said . |
| 2 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 7 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 8 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 11 | As a means of reproducing plates in illustrated texts , lithography had not been in use for even a decade . |
| 12 | If you do not understand the standards or are in doubt about how the general principles or rules of conduct might apply in specific circumstances , you must ask your manager for clarification . |
| 13 | One of the school 's main aims is to raise enough money for a second indoor sports base , which would be of benefit to both the school and the local community . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm in love with wherever the business is . |
| 16 | Yet , as with declarations , such utterances will only be perceived as orders if certain conditions are in operation and known to be in operation by both the sender and the receiver . |
| 17 | Police believe she will be in hospital for about a week . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Furthermore , it has created a community of space technocrats , with sufficient of a scientific and engineering background , to be at ease in both the military and civilian space administrations . |
| 20 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Spencer Stuart 's business in London and Manchester owes much of its success to its Britishness , to the fact that its consultants are at home in even the most conservative Boardrooms ; the firm works in direct contrast to the style apparently adopted by Korn/Ferry , for instance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | SyQuest Technology Inc , Fremont , California has had enough of French start-up Nomai SA and has started legal proceedings in Paris to stop the sale of what it claims are illegal copies of SyQuest removable Winchester disk cartridges and to obtain other legal relief : the complaint was filed before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris ; it already has an injunction against the company in the US , but Nomai has continued to ship its cartridges outside the US , which SyQuest believes is in violation of both the original temporary restraining and subsequent stipulated order . |
| 29 | Canadian Black Diamond Cheddar ( the straightforward one , not the wine-cured variety ) is without question by far the best Cheddar now generally available to the British public . |
| 30 | 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 . |