Example sentences of "[be] [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick . |
| 2 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
| 3 | These pillars here in the gallery are kind of working also quite minimally as trees in the gallery , so it sets up a nice atmosphere . |
| 4 | There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 . |
| 5 | It says there has been difficulty in convincing both presbyteries and congregations of the need for financial planning for the future . |
| 6 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 7 | But although there is immunocytochemical evidence for NO synthase in hippocampal interneurons , there has been difficulty in obtaining evidence for its expression in pyramidal or granule cells . |
| 8 | There had long been resistance to making him a saint due to his open contempt for Christian domestic morality ( he had lived with concubines after the death of his last wife ) . |
| 9 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 10 | But the white man does not believe that cattle are payment for taking someone 's life . ’ |
| 11 | There have always been creepy-crawly stories , which are part of learning that life is not all teddy bears and roses . |
| 12 | The Belfast Action Teams ( BATs ) , for example , which are part of Making Belfast Work , say they exist to fund innovation ; however , a lot of people are suspicious of this claim . |
| 13 | Corded , cordless and even gas-powered guns are now sold , and the advantages for the user are speed of setting time and convenience . |
| 14 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 15 | For years there has been talk of building a road and railway along the shore to link Aswan with Wadi Halfa , the first town inside Sudan . |
| 16 | There had been talk of meeting for a drink in the evening , but the talk had taken place at five in the morning as Kelly was hurriedly slipping into her clothes and now Nick seemed to have forgotten . |
| 17 | There is sufficient pasture now for up to 3000 sheep , and there has been talk of introducing a Scottish blackface flock . |
| 18 | Even before the crisis there had been talk of fielding a Popular Front candidate in Oxford . |
| 19 | On the menu bar are Search for finding articles quickly rather than scrolling manually through the word list , View to find photographs , videos , maps and magazine covers and Mark for marking a place in an article and making notes . |
| 20 | With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive . |
| 21 | Miller has always been expert at bringing out the best in players — he turned Frank McAvennie from a midfield player into a striker in his St Mirren days — and the evolution of Pat McGinlay as a goalscoring midfield player is merely the latest example of his handiwork . |
| 22 | To open yourself up to someone like that , I am a failure , then you 're kind of establishing a different level of relationship are n't you . |
| 23 | So you remember them but they do n't have any significance because you do n't link it up with an emotion , or with a situation , or with other er ideas , they 're kind of isolated . |
| 24 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 25 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 26 | Very often they 're , they 're kind of divided up in this isolated way . |
| 27 | However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . |
| 28 | There 's also a lot of stress in hobbies , sport , because you 're , you 're sort of challenged , you want to win something , or , even your hobby , you want to get something right . |
| 29 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 30 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |