Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be okay , you may not be okay , you 've got two recessives per human figure , you 're not er , all one can say is genes are kind of heaped together and natural selection does n't really care . |
| 2 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 3 | So you remember them but they do n't have any significance because you do n't link it up with an emotion , or with a situation , or with other er ideas , they 're kind of isolated . |
| 4 | Very often they 're , they 're kind of divided up in this isolated way . |
| 5 | There 's also a lot of stress in hobbies , sport , because you 're , you 're sort of challenged , you want to win something , or , even your hobby , you want to get something right . |
| 6 | which you do , and then you 're er you know in their eyes you 're , you 're sort of trained to some sort of level for their sort of work . |
| 7 | Yes , usually it 's you 're sort of bombarded from all sides by |
| 8 | But that really wo n't last long much after the erm , well we do n't know , I er , nobody really knows , I mean , British Aerospace has fragmented into all of these property groups and Rover and everybody 's got fingers in the pie and we 're not , we 're sort of caught half way between short-term aims to make a quick profit from trying to get Shell in you know and that sort of thing , but I mean , we just need to talk about , nobody really knows what the long-term policy of the main British Aerospace Board is . |
| 9 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 10 | And erm they 're sort of labelled , you know what , it gives you this picture of what you 're buying as well . |
| 11 | Erm I think it 's really very sad that i it 's just the society we live in has put these kind of pressures on marriages and you know we 're all human and we can all be tempted to look at other people and be unfaithful but in those times of er you know temptation you just I well I I 've found that that 's where my faith comes in you 're sort of helped through those times . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you and Carol , you 're sort of settled now , are n't you ? ’ he said . |
| 13 | I had always been sort of fascinated with pictures : I was more of a visual person than a word person . ’ |
| 14 | Groups have been sort of defined in different types of groups . |
| 15 | That 's been sort of revolutionized , when you when you think that you used to have to buy , did n't have to buy your tea , but you used to buy a tea from the chemist shop and the only person that sold it was a chemist , that was . |
| 16 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 17 | Because very often on courses we find that people have been sort of nominated to go on courses , and quite honestly they do n't actually want to be there and they 're looking at their watch and as soon as they can get away that , that 's better . |
| 18 | Right erm these notes are sort of based on a lecture that I went to when I was in sixth form erm and the theme for it is , Men And Women , Do We Speak The Same Language ? |
| 19 | Er in the summer term particularly , at the end of the summer term those retirements thirty first of August because as you can appreciate they are sort of inundated applications at the end of the academic year . |
| 20 | Are you on any of these committees that , you know the , the organizing committees erm that are sort of built up to solve problems within the , you know , the various departments , or do you know anyone |
| 21 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |
| 22 | And if you have , are sort of screwed on and they 're put underneath erm , until you sort of , type locks cos anything else . |
| 23 | I think a , that there 's another point that we should all remember and that is that it should n't just be our opinion either , we are sort of told from high certain things |
| 24 | And then they 'll see how many are sort of used a lot and percentage and that 's what they 'll do . |
| 25 | Seeing as I 'm sort of got half into that one really . |
| 26 | What February used to be sort of reckoned for rain did n't it ? |
| 27 | he , he , he lists er a wide range of things that basically you know should be banned or , or basically erm sh should be sort of cut down upon . |
| 28 | So we need to re-draft it we it needs to be sort of re-drafted in in a format |
| 29 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 30 | It could be sort of spread throughout the company . |