Example sentences of "[prep] be [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the other may or may not of been like I said just the fact I 'm shaking your hand , weapon he goes and does a frenzy test but the evidence on those three were , was n't very , was n't very conclusive and it |
| 2 | It may of been when between there |
| 3 | you know like it 's reversed they thought they , they , the words , so they must of been if that 's how it is |
| 4 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 5 | but it could n't of been cos it came out last week |
| 6 | Yeah he would of been cos he was , he was , he was on about that , erm the |
| 7 | and it must of been because of that |
| 8 | He knew he was disappointing where the riding was concerned , although no one had actually told him so — the whole business of being as one with the animal he rode seemed to elude him . |
| 9 | I was pleased that he was more diplomatic afterwards instead of being as over the top as ever . |
| 10 | The thematic of historicity … has always been required by the determination of Being as presence … |
| 11 | I am obsessed by Giles ; all I can think of is whether I shall see him again , and when . |
| 12 | The Stevens boys manned the ferry until the outbreak of was although Mabel often helped out . |
| 13 | Well the other thing I was thinking of was if we if we felt we needed to put a new roller blind at the window |
| 14 | It came into being after a lama saw a fight between a white crane and an ape . |
| 15 | Assertion comes into being when you still bring the conversation back this is what I want nothing else will do , and bringing it right the way back all the time to discuss what it is why it 's called a broken record exercise , we 'll give it a quick go now . |
| 16 | The ‘ oldest profession ’ probably did n't come into being until man had started settling into agricultural communities around 15,000 BC . |
| 17 | The future can not come into being until the past is dead . |
| 18 | The creditors ' committee does not come into being until the trustee has issued a certificate of its due constitution ( r 6.151 ) and his certificate must not be issued until he has received the written consent to act from three members of the committee ( r6.151(3A) ) . |
| 19 | This also comes into being as we couple reading the Bible with prayer . |
| 20 | The world itself is presented as a kind of self-projection of Geist , in which it brings itself into being as Nature , and so as over against itself ( thesis and antithesis ) . |
| 21 | And time boiled back into being as the touch of his lips sent a shaft of fire down to sear her inside . |
| 22 | In Nils Enkvist 's words , " styles come into being as aggregates of probabilities of expression in situational contexts , or , more briefly , as aggregates of contextual probabilities " ( p. 129 ) . |
| 23 | The project which we report here came into being because of this concern ; it was one of several recent attempts , all part of the same climate of interest , to sustain some highly dependent old people in non-institutional settings . |
| 24 | A second question which I am struggling with is whether or not there is a great deal of difference between bass flangers and guitar flangers . |
| 25 | But they changed over quickly cos what kids get bored with is if they 've got |
| 26 | We well you 've got ta be when you you got ta scrub out all them erm those swearing bits we 've been doing . |
| 27 | The funnies thing one 's got ta be when my friend yeah ? |
| 28 | they 'd got ta be as I could n't go to them |
| 29 | . The reason I throw that in is because it does n't conveniently come under wills anywhere , but it 's relevant to you . |
| 30 | What is less agreed upon is whether the reward should be given for routine adequacy or for extra special effort . |