Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know you 've been off school from what ? |
| 2 | Dublin could n't miss , but United had been off target in their opening four matches . |
| 3 | However , he well realises that these matters of detail are for response by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | Every breed has its own society and these usually keep lists of ponies that are for sale from their breeders . |
| 5 | Because during the course of our discussions today I 'll ask you to introduce me to others if , and only if , you think this meeting with me today has been of benefit to yourself , would that be okay ? |
| 6 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 7 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 8 | I hope we have been of assistance to you . ’ |
| 9 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 10 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 11 | Yeah , yeah you could certainly point out the areas that have been of interest to you and perhaps I could follow up with a phone call to er to Peter in the |
| 12 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 13 | We sincerely hope that 's been of use to you . |
| 14 | Are of advantage to me ; |
| 15 | It is thus the public elite which mediates across the country 's divisions inventing policies which are of advantage to itself and its clients . |
| 16 | How do we attempt to deduce some general guidelines from his history and teaching which are of relevance for us today ? |
| 17 | You would probably choose to use materials of this kind because the aspects of the culture featured are of relevance to your students . |
| 18 | I hope that these comments help to clarify the Regional Council 's position and are of assistance to you in processing the planning application for Phase 3 . |
| 19 | Evidence is all around us , and the first step in any research is for the scientist to decide which of the many facts are of concern to him . |
| 20 | ‘ The problems connected with the keeping of slaves are of interest to me . |
| 21 | Here , as elsewhere , a translator would be well advised to use those explanations which are compatible with the languages that are of interest to him/her and ignore the rest . |
| 22 | This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research . |
| 23 | include FINGER , for ‘ telephone'-type enquiries , i.e. finding the e-mail address for the person or institution you want ; GOPHER , a system of linked menus to help find resources anywhere in the Internet ; ARCHIE , which allows searching indexes to remote computers to find out which of their searchable files are of interest to you ; WAIS , for searching remote databases ; and WWW ( World-Wide-Web ) , which is similar but which uses an extremely user-friendly full screen with hypertext features . |
| 24 | Questions about how examination results should be interpreted are of interest in their own right but are also important in studies of school effectiveness and wider debates about how educational institutions should be evaluated and held accountable . |
| 25 | I hope these are of use to you with your report . |
| 26 | All the samples you make are of use to you . |
| 27 | We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us . |
| 28 | It is important for us to consider whether it contains principles which are of value for us today . |
| 29 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |
| 30 | We have simultaneously slipped back into a compromising embrace with the very form of instrumental utilitarianism which got the world into such a mess in the first place : that things are of value because they are of value to us , not because they are of value in themselves . |