Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation . |
| 2 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 3 | Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports . |
| 4 | Amstral has recently been through a combination of management buyouts and takeovers , including the acquisition of Crab Advanced Technologies ' sales and marketing division , and now goes by the name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd . |
| 5 | But it probably helped our friendship , because we 've been through a lot since then . |
| 6 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
| 7 | Right now the relationship 's good ; he 's like an old friend , we 've been through a lot of shit together . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been through a lot of stuff because of it . |
| 9 | Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings . |
| 10 | " We 've been through a lot of danger , " he said . |
| 11 | WE have been through a lot in the press . |
| 12 | Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her . |
| 13 | Referring to an automobile accident which seriously injured his son in 1989 , he stated that his family had " been through a lot in the last two years " and that they were " more important than politics and personal ambition " . |
| 14 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 15 | Have you ever been for a tour around a busy airport ? |
| 16 | But we had nobody been for a couple of times , now . |
| 17 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 18 | Nader Nadirpur came home late having been for a drive along the Bois de Boulogne to calm his nerves after a particularly bad day . |
| 19 | These ranged from switching to Highers in non-science subjects when the original intention had been SCE/GCE science to a degree in building and surveying when the original application had been for a place on an access course in science and technology . |
| 20 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
| 21 | One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject . |
| 22 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 23 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 24 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |
| 25 | Schimberni 's 10-year investment plan for the FS had also been received unfavourably by the Transport Minister Carlo Bernini , whose preference had been for a programme with greater emphasis on capital projects . |
| 26 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 27 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |
| 28 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
| 29 | It expects a loss for the first quarter and the loss will be substantially larger than analyst estimates — the average forecast has been for a loss of two cents a share on turnover of $565m — a figure the company says is way too high . |
| 30 | But today , their shareholdings are worth a fraction of what they once were . |