Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should be an excellent opportunity for being with and joining friends for a relaxing evening . |
| 2 | They have a simply-furnished home , a Volvo estate car and a loathing for being in the limelight . |
| 3 | Perhaps knowing the likely outcome , New Scientist 's editor made a pathetic excuse about being in Canada at the time and dropped one of his old colleagues into — and swiftly out of — the balloon . |
| 4 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 5 | He will cease to be in charge where some intervening act occurs to remove the responsibility for being in charge from him . |
| 6 | The contrast between being in the lady 's charitable care and now in the officious hands of the workhouse staff is an important dynamic . |
| 7 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 8 | This is a very short story about being in the women 's movement every day of your life . |
| 9 | In the latter case , of course , the sole criterion for being in the right is that of being opposed to the protagonist most closely identified with the parental authority — a very easy requirement to fulfil as the following true , but rather ludicrous , example shows . |
| 10 | Worthy of review for being by something called the Disco Universe Orchestra ( I want to join ) and for bearing the wise slogan LOUD AND WOBBLY MUSIC FOR THE '90Ss . |
| 11 | Take the fact , for example , that a quiet residential road is one of the most dangerous since the driver has a perception of being in a wide , open space and feels he is driving slower than he actually is . |
| 12 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 13 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 14 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 15 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 16 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 17 | The fear of being on one 's own applies beyond childhood , and for good reasons . |
| 18 | Still , he was not arrested or forced to flee , and could attend the ‘ Merciless Parliament ’ in February 1388 without fear of being amongst those indicted . |
| 19 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 20 | I 've not had a chance to visit abroad yet but I think I 've got two visits booked next year to various remoter parts of the world , but I 've met some who are on leave , recuperating from the circumstances they 've been in , sometimes illness , sometimes just the sheer tension of being under fire . |
| 21 | The tension of being in his company had to be getting to her . |
| 22 | I said I had no intention of being within a couple of light years of the Mimosa when Plod and the SWAT team burst in . |
| 23 | Perhaps that is the luxury of being on the pay-roll of a monopoly subsidised by the Government ? |
| 24 | The future inhabitants of this mini-estate can look forward to persistent heavy traffic noise made more acute by the amphitheatre effect of being on a hillside . |
| 25 | In figure 8.2 , the effect of being in the service class on the chances of attending selective secondary school is denoted b 1 , and the effect of being in the intermediate class is denoted b 2 . |
| 26 | In figure 8.2 , the effect of being in the service class on the chances of attending selective secondary school is denoted b 1 , and the effect of being in the intermediate class is denoted b 2 . |
| 27 | In this particular example , path b 1 represents the effect of being in the service class as opposed to being in the working class on the chances of attending a selective secondary school . |
| 28 | Path b 2 represents the effect of being in the intermediate class on the chances of attending a selective secondary school . |
| 29 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 30 | The difference in proportions , d , has been used to summarize the effect of being in a category of one variable upon the chances of being in a category of another . |