Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |
| 3 | No wonder Souness has been into the transfer market for a new centre back . |
| 4 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 5 | This week has been about the library . |
| 6 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 7 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 8 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 9 | One of the major divisions has been between the Japanese and the Europeans . |
| 10 | In recent years , the major underlying conflict , stoked up by personality clashes between union leaders , has been between the industrial union ethos of the NUR and the continuing craft aspirations of ASLEF . |
| 11 | The latest trend has been towards the darker types , still usually sedimented , and today wheat beer has a good 25 per cent of the Bavarian market . |
| 12 | World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously . |
| 13 | It seems that the whole force has been under the direct comd of General Loehr , until contact with him was lost many days ago . " |
| 14 | From January 1993 , the Land Assessment business has been under the operational control of Iain Ferrier , supported by Nigel Board and Peter Constantine in the South . |
| 15 | One of the country 's tallest trees has been under the doctor . |
| 16 | Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for the advertisers , the first battle has been over the least defensible product . |
| 18 | Another fundamental misunderstanding of Freud 's theory , made again by both those sympathetic and those hostile to his work , has been over the part played by abnormal psychology in the theory of psychoanalysis . |
| 19 | The real conflict has been over the development of industrial land for retail purposes . |
| 20 | The greatest controversy has been over the question of assessment and testing . |
| 21 | We know what the experience has been over the years . |
| 22 | ‘ The biggest criticism has been over the fact we have not offered season ticket discounts . |
| 23 | He was aware that a captain with a record such as his has a big advantage , since any troops will respond better to a leader they know has been through the fire himself , and so he knew just what he could ask of his bowlers . |
| 24 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 25 | ‘ I am convinced that much of the success achieved by the Arsenal has been through the team quickly sensing a weakness in the opposition , ’ Chapman commented . |
| 26 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |
| 27 | This is an agricultural area still , as it has been through the centuries , and most of the residents are employed in the district , with some commuting to Hull , the nearest city . |
| 28 | Unlike North America the involvement of government in economic life has been through the increased regulation of the private sector ; in the U K it has resulted in the public ownership of the industries or utilities concerned . |
| 29 | Until now , the only speaking Barbara has managed to do has been through the mouth of her dog Millie by way of a book written in the pet 's name . |
| 30 | While Data General Corp made a net loss of $63 million for fiscal 1992 , the company maintains that it has been through the worst in its transition from proprietary to open systems , and is now seeing considerable growth in demand for its high-end multiprocessor AViiON servers . |