Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 2 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 3 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 4 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 5 | I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years . |
| 6 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 7 | But normally , but er the , they are for just that sort of product . |
| 8 | Alexis and Paul Gilmour are behind the campaign and they are after as many signatures as possible . |
| 9 | The player 's display would have been of as much interest to the watching Celtic manager , Liam Brady , as the distressing form of his opponents on Saturday . |
| 10 | Parliament , it was said , could not have intended , despite the clearly expressed intention to the contrary , to have given the exclusion so limited an operation , for that would have been of very little assistance to the police . |
| 11 | Such an undertaking must have been of very little value . |
| 12 | In a later study of economic growth in the USA , and Western European countries during the period 1950–62 , Denison found the minimum contribution of education to economic growth to have been of far less importance : 15 per cent for USA , 13 per cent for UK and Belgium , and the rates for the remaining six countries varied from 7 per cent for Norway and Italy , to 2 per cent for West Germany . |
| 13 | Now some relationships are of just this kind . |
| 14 | Of course , warranties and maintenance contracts are all very well , but — as customers of Ti'ko and Olympic Technology know to their cost — agreements with manufacturers are of precious little use if the company goes bust . |
| 15 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 16 | The corollary of the theory , of course , is that ads for the cheap , day-to-day , convenience type of product are of so little interest to anybody that they should carry a minimum of information , and that they will even then have great difficulty in achieving any very active response from customers . |
| 17 | Indeed , as Wolfram points out , such relationships are of so little importance within British kinship that there are no recognized kinship terms for many of these relationships gained through marriage ( Wolfram , 1987 , p. 4 ) . |
| 18 | International comparisons are of relatively little value because they tend to highlight the different priorities and practices of different countries . |
| 19 | In fact the different Greek roots for the Devil in the Septuagint — diabolos/apollyon — are of very little importance , for what emerges is the concept of the Devil as the supreme Evil One , the Dark Power . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're in deep this time , my friend , are n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | On for nearly another hundred years , and we are with yet another poet , whose early work was written under the pen-name of Owen Meredith . |
| 22 | As you know , it 's pretty easy to stay within R & A guidelines as long as any kinks in the shaft are within so many inches of the putter head and so on . |
| 23 | [ Under the Italian dual-control tradition ] when everything goes of its own accord , I am in quite another world . |
| 24 | Mid-June finds you thinking of changing your place of residence and by July you 're going to be happier than you have been in quite some time ! |
| 25 | But today Gloria blundered out through the swing doors when she 'd hardly been in there any time at all and looked like she was groping along in her sleep . |
| 26 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 27 | I confess I did not remember her at all , but I have been in so many hoses , I suppose it is only natural … " |
| 28 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 29 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 30 | The new products are priced at from $17,800 to $128,000 including software , and shipment dates are from late this month to early September . |