Example sentences of "[prep] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 2 | Well I used to do , what you 're doing see , you 're in charge of loading the ship , see but they did , first of all they , they , we had er , we had a foreman stevedore , then we had , and then erm we had the stevedores and the dockers they went away on these courses , down to ones , they used to go to Southampton and some went to Hull , but when they came back , they called theirselves stevedores , so course our harbourmaster , he say that 's not right , they 're stevedores , well you got ta be all called foremen stevedores , so Captain come to me , he said , what are we gon na call you ? |
| 3 | That 's got ta be more than that , cos that 's basically what my fares cost . |
| 4 | The reason they 've got ta be those colours is erm and clear nail polish . |
| 5 | The current directories , got ta be this one . |
| 6 | No it 's got ta be this one , I might have to get someone to read out the answers |
| 7 | But I mean if I can get her to start somehow and I think it 's got ta be this one . |
| 8 | Got ta be some override … |
| 9 | so there 's got ta be some hope for those that have , have gone lost or whatever has n't there ? |
| 10 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 11 | Adeane 's function as private secretary appeared to be little more than the job of arranging the Prince 's schedule around polo and the children 's bath times . |
| 12 | The new government brought in to replace the one that resigned a month ago turns out to be little more than a royal-family reshuffle . |
| 13 | Locke rejects this , though his arguments against Descartes 's identification of body with extension tend to be little more than initial difficulties . |
| 14 | Either way it is likely , as Palmerston said of a projected coalition with Disraeli in 1857 , to be little more than ‘ the accident and fortuitous concurrence of atoms ’ . |
| 15 | Initially there appeared to be little to choose between them , but careful comparative trials showed that Marsilid made more contribution than isoniazid to the improvements in appetite and the weight gain . |
| 16 | But the chapter , entitled ‘ A computer model of music recognition ’ — whose title whetted my appetite considerably — proved to be little more than a pious hope that studying the way a computer can be programmed to recognise music might help to understand the way the human brain does it . |
| 17 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 18 | The fighting which followed took place spasmodically as the moon emerged from behind a cloud or one side fired at the other 's musket flashes and the Battle of Clifton turned out to be little more than a skirmish . |
| 19 | There would seem to be little doubt that Parliament could , by passing an Act ( which would , of course , necessitate the Royal Assent ) establish a republic . |
| 20 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 21 | Despite the presence of sound Trinomic cushioning and stability technology in the two main Disc shoes , it is hard to believe runners will shell out hefty sums for a central concept which appears to be little more than a glorified lacing system . |
| 22 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 23 | The Cripps-Day mourning hood , the only surviving ‘ late sixteenth-century ’ item of its kind , has in recent years proved to be little more than a nineteenth-century pastiche . |
| 24 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 25 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 26 | Following this there was considerable despondency amongst the committee as there seemed to be little hope for the future . |
| 27 | In his Harvard thesis of 1916 T. S. Eliot had claimed any knowledge of reality to be little more than a perilous mental construct : ‘ we are forced to admit that the construction is not always completely successful , ’ being ‘ always about to fall apart . ’ |
| 28 | In her winter coat she appeared to be little more than a central pole with a tent draped from her shoulders . |
| 29 | In effect , these were intended to be little more than reconnaissance raids on a large scale . |
| 30 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |