Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , culture will not be wholly within management 's control . |
| 2 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary , and now they can be wholly in charge of this — they can change the layout of it as much as the words within it ; they can ask colleagues to come in and comment and even add a little bit . |
| 3 | Previously you could ask someone to type up first draft , second draft , maybe a third draft , but how far can you drive your secretary — and now they can be wholly in charge of this . |
| 4 | These are hours when you know you need to be somewhere on time — so build in margins for travel . |
| 5 | I said it is quarter past two if you I 'm not pushing you off but you 've got to be somewhere on time . |
| 6 | It was mentioned that there should be somewhere for guest and visitors to sit . |
| 7 | The compass had to be somewhere in sight of that arrow . |
| 8 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 9 | She may also be helped to understand that if she is willing to try to spread the love she once gave to one person around to others who may be badly in need of it , she will move into an entirely different dimension emotionally : one that will provide her with new satisfactions and in which she will discover that the lovers of this world are not only those who enjoy a close and exclusive relationship . |
| 10 | ‘ However , in the meantime I 'm going to be badly in need of some professional help , ’ Laura told him urgently . |
| 11 | It might seem like it 's all going to fall apart at any minute , but that 's the key to it — it 's totally wrong to call them shambolic ; you have to be right on top of things to sound this loose . |
| 12 | Players in that market are already figuring that Self will be right up front amongst the crop of next-generation object technologies now moving off the drawing boards . |
| 13 | In most cases their advice will either be right in law or be in an area where the courts will wish to leave alone the exercise of the visitor 's discretion . |
| 14 | Persistent aggression is a deviation not only from social convention , but from the way people ‘ naturally ’ are , since the mind is thought to be properly in control of the soul ( cf. |
| 15 | Short , rather thickset , with dark curling hair , dark eyes , and freckles , she looked as if she would be most at home with dogs and horses , or with bared arms scrubbing a dairy down , and perhaps she was , but she was also very intelligent , highly imaginative , and easily my best student . |
| 16 | Today this detached attitude to learning is being questioned even in subjects like science where it would seem to be most at home . |
| 17 | Conservation groups pointed out that the Commission was studying the wrong forests ( its own and its younger plantations ) and had deliberately excluded the trees which , on the basis of continental experience , would be most at risk . |
| 18 | Contrary to suicide patterns in the general population , younger patients may be most at risk , but in keeping with suicide in the general population , men are more at risk than women . |
| 19 | The figure had reached 15 per cent of the prison population by 1988 and Afro-Caribbean and African men seem to be most at risk . |
| 20 | I received an assurance today from police and Army commanders that there will be an enhanced security presence in those areas thought to be most at risk in the light of last night 's attacks in Belfast . |
| 21 | Cleveland is thought to be most at risk . |
| 22 | All this adds to the difficulty of bereavement service organizers in reaching out to those who may be most in need of the care that can be offered . |
| 23 | It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated . |
| 24 | It may mean providing services , such as education or a health service , which are available to all , or the home help service , which is available to those judged to be most in need of it . |
| 25 | ‘ They will be all over gnat bites , ’ said Jasper . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's going to be all over town — in fact , I ca n't think why it is n't already — and your mother will be the last to know . ’ |
| 27 | It would be all over town that her son wrote pornography . |
| 28 | It 's going to be all over town , in fact . ’ |
| 29 | He had heard that Camilla Welmsley would be all in white , something fluffy and revealing , but with black lipstick . |
| 30 | A table or trolley of relevant books and resources could be constantly at hand when teaching history . |