Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 2 | Keep drawing , Ms Madelin , you 're in the best of company ! |
| 3 | Keep drawing , Ms Madelin , you 're in the best of company ! |
| 4 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |
| 5 | Although today volcanoes are no longer regarded with such religious awe , their violent aspects are still widely publicized ; deservedly , since volcanic eruptions are amongst the finest of natural spectacles . |
| 6 | All hotels and guest houses listed in this brochure comply with a Tourist Charter which sets standards which are amongst the highest of any resort in Britain . |
| 7 | We are proud that Thames Water 's prices have been amongst the lowest of any of the recently privatised large water companies . |
| 8 | Plasma pepsinogen levels are above the normal of 1.0 i.u. tyrosine and usually exceed 2.0 i.u. in sheep with heavy infections . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ he was saying , the gentle pressure of his hand forcing her slowly back , ‘ but I am in the worst of humours , Marie . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 've been in every one of them , ’ Maidstone said . |
| 11 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 12 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 13 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 14 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 15 | Please inform the parents that my brother and I are in the best of health . |
| 16 | We imagine that we are in the thick of it — especially if there are miracles , new liturgical enthusiasm and popular songs — but in reality we are in the thin of it . |
| 17 | Halstead Town are in the thick of a Jewson League Premier Division relegation battle and tonight travel to Watton Utd ( 7.45 pm ) . |
| 18 | We imagine that we are in the thick of it — especially if there are miracles , new liturgical enthusiasm and popular songs — but in reality we are in the thin of it . |
| 19 | We are in the dead of winter — sooty blackness falls by four in the afternoon . |
| 20 | For many beginners , reaching , turning and often falling is what an afternoon 's windsurfing consists of , which , although it is comforting and fun to be with the dozens of others who are doing exactly the same , does n't lead to much improvement in their sailing . |
| 21 | ‘ I prefer playing at centre half because I like to attack the ball in the air and I 'm in the thick of it more in the middle . ’ |
| 22 | If the Soviet Union refuses to play that game any more , how long will it be before the poor of this great country realise that the genuine community of interest exists among themselves ? |
| 23 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 24 | also regulars in our national team like Mini Jakobsen , Sorloth and even Bjornebye ( Liverpool — has been injured and have had trouble coming back after that — but played in Liverpool 's last game ) were left out : and the papers over here concluded with : to go to the USA — you — have — to be in the first-11 of your club . |
| 25 | But by then paging will be in the thick of furious competition in mobile communications . |
| 26 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 27 | Some have described her as a 1920s version of much-admired Kate Adie , who always appears to be in the thick of things wherever the action is ! |
| 28 | Regulars expected to be in the thick of things are 500cc Champion Robbie Fuller , Shaun Nichols , Neil Scopes and Adrian Mower , all from Woodbridge MCC . |
| 29 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 30 | And once it went , he would be in the thick of it with all his weapons and a better chance than most . |