Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing weight for Sarah is now a difficult task . |
| 2 | Manhood for Acton was as precious as chastity . |
| 3 | Sporadic outbreaks of fighting reported during March were mainly attributed to unruly rebel troops . |
| 4 | The numbers wintering off Sussex are always small , the largest winter totals noted since 1947 being 90 birds in 1958 , and 102 in early 1974 , when a flock of 100 was seen in Rye Bay on 23 February . |
| 5 | The Canadian government has drastically reduced catch quotas for cod after admitting that stocks of the fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland are dangerously low . |
| 6 | Her thoughts about Mills were as confused as her emotions towards Urquhart . |
| 7 | For a passage through Panama is very much a delight . |
| 8 | I wrote to Hester just afore Christmas , explaining about Ma being badly . |
| 9 | Had the earlier turf-level ‘ catch ’ by Inzamam-ul-Haq off Gower been wrongly disallowed ? |
| 10 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook was Home Secretary , he used to draft for us what he described as a crime clock . |
| 11 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Tooting was as wrong about the number of homeless as he was about the number of rough sleepers . |
| 13 | The story of commercial co-option is familiar in pop history but the terms in which the story is told change , and Paul Morley 's words about Frankie were thus more important than Frankie themselves . |
| 14 | Kingfisher yesterday tried to counter the view that its 120p-a-share bid for Dixons is only a sighting shot . |
| 15 | Kingfisher yesterday tried to counter the view that its 120p-a-share bid for Dixons is only a sighting shot . |
| 16 | The tail end of the search for Surere was still in progress when they found the fourth girl . |
| 17 | However , it was reported that , as LEAs are always under pressure from schools to assign teachers to direct teaching posts , funding professional development teachers appeared to remain insecure as long as no external financial support was available from central government . |
| 18 | Skilful individuals such as Gazza are very much also-rans , though they do have their uses . |
| 19 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |
| 20 | The role he proposed for Ken was too good for him to pass up . |
| 21 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 22 | Why would the demand for MO be very inelastic indeed ? |
| 23 | For , it becomes apparent , the terms of the competition between States are constantly changing , and therefore the struggle for national independence is never complete . |
| 24 | As far as the industry was concerned , the case for SERPS was very simple . |
| 25 | The comment was made that ‘ the estimate for Powys was rather high ’ . |
| 26 | Tomorrow should brighten up with sunny intervals and the outlook for Friday is mainly dry with sunny spells . |
| 27 | This is perhaps unfortunate , because it throws more of a burden onto plausibility checking ( and makes evaluations such as Walker 's rather more difficult to carry out ) . |
| 28 | Key areas where ‘ perverse incentives ’ are most likely to pressurise NHS and SSDs after April are best indicated by the Institute of Health Services Managers ' evidence to Parliament , where it complained that there was no satisfactory delineation of social care from health care . |
| 29 | To single out Wales is entirely without justification and certainly the strong Welsh teams of the Seventies were sinned against on many occasions . |
| 30 | The rival proposals for Stratford are totally unacceptable . |