Example sentences of "be [prep] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 2 | The ministry , it declared , had been for over a generation " merely the faithful executor of the intentions " of Alexander I and Nicholas I , so that " its every action was carried out under the orders and instructions of the tsars themselves " . |
| 3 | cos I have n't been for about a month , three weeks . |
| 4 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 5 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 6 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 7 | I mean , they , they probably do n't speak English and they 're at at a disadvantage to start off with . |
| 8 | Write about what you are like as a reader now : your interests , your favourite kind of reading , favourite authors , your strengths and weaknesses , how much you read at home , where and when you like reading , your ambitions as a reader . |
| 9 | I am like unto a leper here with all faces turned against me except your kind friend Miss Blagden and now she is gone too . |
| 10 | It will surround the caster and any unit they are with with a shield of intense coldness . |
| 11 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 12 | wha what 's what would your opinion be as as a church-comer would you be as we do n't know whether the Archbishop really said it cos it 's printed in the Sun for heaven 's sake . |
| 13 | well what we do is that we we all know each-other 's hand- writing so we borrow each-other 's pens and like last night I did all of maths prep and he , we 'll both remember that , and then one night when I 'm like under a lot of pressure to do some prep , he 'll like return the favour |
| 14 | But I mean you know what I 'm like in a car I just sit there and then then your father turned in and there was all these , where we went to get the carpet , you know ? |
| 15 | The problems are ones of ethics , which in turn come down to public attitudes to what life would be like with a mentally handicapped child . |
| 16 | England captain David Platt says the whole team is eager for the game , but admits : ‘ It seems weird , it 's hard to imagine what it will be like with a roof . |
| 17 | This was what it must be like on a toboggan roaring down the snowy slope of a mountainside . |
| 18 | Trying to be like on a more friendly basis with Nick . |
| 19 | Very roughly , Fodor argued that this kind of blanket objection to representational theories of mind does not work against the mental-sentence kind of theory for the simple reason that we know just what it would be like for a system to work on the mental-sentence principle . |
| 20 | But Daedalus wonders what breathable foam would be like as a total environment . |
| 21 | But even if you ca n't predict exactly what your baby is going to be like as a toddler or pre-schooler , let alone as an adolescent , sorting out her needs and wants in the here and now can be fascinating . |
| 22 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 23 | Besides , what would your one shining summer be like without a few interesting male specimens in it ? ’ |
| 24 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 25 | It 's difficult enough dealing with you when you 're halfway normal — I dread to think what you might be like in a state of delirium . ’ |
| 26 | God knows what it 'll be like in a real race . |
| 27 | God knows what 's it going to be like in a couple of weeks time . |
| 28 | I mean what 's he gon na be like in a couple of years time ? |
| 29 | Banks ' and brokers ' investment in London makes any rapid exodus unlikely , but some in the City are asking what ‘ business as usual ’ will be like within a prime terrorist target — and whether the benefits of doing it there , rather than somewhere else , outweigh the costs . |
| 30 | I 'll be in in a minute . |