Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Afshan Begum explains in her thesis ‘ In many cases parents expect that the girl will , whenever they demand , give up everything ( e.g. a course in further education or training or a career ) and submit without question to a marriage they have arranged for her … these hidden cases which no one gets to hear about are the real tragedies . ’ |
| 2 | What you 're aiming for are the receding depths of the river concealing its greater mysteries , while your fish flirt unawares in the foreground … |
| 3 | Some good ones to look out for are the 1940's style Retro Dryer from Clairol , £24.95 . |
| 4 | But because they have to leave by 10pm , all they have time for are the basic tasks , such as cooking dinner , feeding Elaine , taking off her make-up and getting her ready for bed . |
| 5 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 6 | Your stepson has to get used to a whole new family , which is a big shock for him after being an only child . |
| 7 | is a filter function representing smearing due to a finite beam size , and is the conformal time , where a(t) is the cosmological scale factor . |
| 8 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 9 | What we are slowly making our way towards are the pictorial consequences of Rosenberg 's nothingness and the fatality . |
| 10 | Oh I yeah , he got this , this er must of been a good metal detector you know |
| 11 | you know , and erm , our Kim , er , she , she goes to bloody extreme then , she 's picked a wardrobe , one wardrobe and a set of drawers , should of been a thousand pound and that bloke at Aston where she got her bed from , which she paid twelve hundred pound just for a bedhead |
| 12 | Which I mean for er for a hospital taking people on like that , I mean erm I would of said i it would would of been a better proposition to have somebody who 's at least experienced . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , could n't of been a better end ! |
| 14 | Romeo and Juliet I mean it could n't of been a better thing for school children |
| 15 | Oh I can , I can understand what must be going through her mind , it must still of been a terrible time . |
| 16 | I suppose I can understand it now , I mean it must of been a lovely place , and then to have all these new houses going up you know , but erm , I mean there was some lovely , lovely lanes |
| 17 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 18 | I think that must of been the old boy over the road you know |
| 19 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |
| 20 | The first form talked about it more than any one else , of course they squealed with laughter when they saw the poor Mary Lou Manselle and Gwendoline , all falling victims to the same spider , jolly clever spider said Irene , it means the only three people in the form that it that would be scared of it , I take my hat off to that spider , ca n't think why it chose my desk said Mary Lou , no , that was a shame said Gwendoline , poor Mary Lou it must of been an awful shock for you when you saw it , I wonder who put it there ? |
| 21 | Tt er and i in a sense there 's kind of been an upward trend in terms of progression through that , that reform but within that there have obviously been a number of and in a sense what we 've been coming to terms with is , is what has been causing those , those variations , those changes in that policy . |
| 22 | the laws of that could of been an important element of competition |
| 23 | Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night . |
| 24 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 25 | In fact , the whole discipline will become more applied in the sense that the emphasis will be shifted from laboratory studies , which seek to isolate variables in the abstract , towards being a social science , which examines socially shared beliefs , or social representations , in their actual social context . |
| 26 | Unikix , acquired back in January by Bull 's US systems integration arm , Integris , is expected to boost the group 's drive towards being an out-and-out systems integrator . |
| 27 | Yet if she had she would have imagined for him someone like Mrs Pascoe , someone who gave an instant impression of being a first-class housekeeper ( the house was immaculate , everything well chosen and highly polished ) and combined energetic work for her local community with a modest reticence about herself . |
| 28 | 3 years ago , Karin Anyon decided she 'd had enough of being a diving widow ; her husband Nick was always away diving with the Milton Keynes Diving Club . |
| 29 | The idea of a triangle is made up from the ideas of being a closed figure , and having three straight sides ; the idea of gold from those of yellowness , malleability , and fusibility . |
| 30 | Posidonius has the reputation , to a certain extent justified , of being a religious soul . |