Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | The archivists in this collection are predominantly from institutions which hold electronic data , usually created via official social surveys or opinion polls . |
| 3 | The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos . |
| 4 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 5 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 6 | ‘ Actors , ’ he once said , ‘ are rather like gangsters : people on the edge of society , ruthless people who suffer . ’ |
| 7 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 8 | FILMS about the human sex act are rather like books on the same subject . |
| 9 | ‘ You are right of course , my lady . |
| 10 | Because it considers that capitalist economies are fundamentally in dis-equilibrium and each regulation system which controls them breaks down eventually , its view of history does not include the regular and predictable cyclical pattern of long-wave theory . |
| 11 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 12 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
| 13 | Such people are effectively under house arrest . |
| 14 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 15 | Novell 's network products are mostly for PCs , but the next few years will see them move into the traditional minicomputer market with support for a number of minicomputer systems , thus re-enforcing their dominance . |
| 16 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 17 | It is also worth noting that , whereas the mills of the Lancashire cotton trade on the west side of the Pennines are mostly of brick , the wool mills of Yorkshire , on the east side , are of the readily available stone . |
| 18 | They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone . |
| 19 | Its street frontages are mostly of glass , separated by stone mullions designed to look like cast iron , and the windows are constructed as oriels in very slender iron frames ; it is included in this book because it was a pioneering metal-framed building . |
| 20 | These teas are mostly from China or Japan . |
| 21 | The similarities , however , are mostly in matters of device ( the piano arpeggios in the first movement Coda , for example , and the six-eight ending of the Rondo , tragic in Mozart , brilliant in Beethoven ) . |
| 22 | For those who are mostly in bed or in a wheelchair , there are various types of bags , which can also be used at night . |
| 23 | It could be argued , and indeed is , that since the more ambitious criminologies of the past are mostly in ruins , this new modesty and realism are a welcome change . |
| 24 | Prime-time programmes over here are mostly in Hindi . |
| 25 | Comics are mostly by men with a masculine audience in mind . |
| 26 | Dr Gordon Moore , Intel chairman , said : ‘ We are badly in need of extra systems capacity and this part of the project will go ahead extremely rapidly . ’ |
| 27 | And , while they are badly in need of such innovations as a massive reafforestation programme , desalination facilities , an organised fishing industry , means to exploit their few mineral resources , and perhaps even tourism , they will not give up easily their island heritage . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is here above all that the contemporary ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts who slap down ‘ permissiveness , as a postwar invention are badly in need of a history lesson . |
| 29 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 30 | Their disadvantage is that the less exotic goods like fittings are rarely on display so you will need to know what you are after . |