Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 32 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 33 | They 'd been out of action because the church 's spire was too weak to support them . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'd been out of town . |
| 35 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 36 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 37 | It was held that reference to bias was out of place in this context . |
| 38 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 39 | Only join clubs , societies , or associations if the work or activity that they pursue is really of interest to you , though , or it is unlikely to be a success . |
| 40 | A Spanish paper would have given the game away and an English one would have been out of date . |
| 41 | B. If you had been a young person in 1860 , like Jimmy Horsley 's great-grandfather , you might easily have been out of work . |
| 42 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |
| 43 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 44 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 45 | On stage , however , corseted and hypertense , sounds would emerge which would not have been out of place in the nest of a fledgeling sedge-warbler . |
| 46 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |
| 47 | ‘ Without a replacement , the plant could have been out of action for months , reducing Torness 's productive capacity by half and costing the company a fortune in lost revenue . |
| 48 | Since Gundobad may have been out of step with the majority of his people and his family , his own beliefs should perhaps be connected with those of his uncle , the arian Ricimer . |
| 49 | If anyone else ran a yard of sixty flat-race horses like he did , they would have been out of business years ago . |
| 50 | The ‘ retirement impact hypothesis ’ ( McMahon and Ford 1955 ) — the suggestion that retirement leads to ill health or even death having been out of favour during the inter-war depression ( Emerson 1959 ) was resurrected during the post-war period . |
| 51 | He loved being out of doors , often without clothes , and kept many animals . |
| 52 | The second failing is thus of effectiveness , of failure to guide and motivate change . |
| 53 | Many of the writers gave stereotypes of bookshops which were clearly years out of date and which they themselves knew were out of date . |
| 54 | The radiation involved is normally of frequency much greater than that of any molecular vibration . |
| 55 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 56 | We did n't discuss his plans for the day , only mine , and those I presume are hardly of interest to you . ’ |
| 57 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |
| 58 | The analysis undertaken is not of goods in general , but of those selected as the most ‘ cherished ’ possessions by the informants . |
| 59 | She had been right of course . |
| 60 | The earlier specification of the ‘ liberal arts ’ had been primarily of branches of knowledge . |