Example sentences of "[be] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are except for they played the wr they played the sweep system . |
| 2 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 3 | HAMLET : … for you yourself , sir , should be as old as I am if like a crab you could go backward . |
| 4 | Mrs. Browne could n't account for that , unless it had been because of the wet weather . |
| 5 | The delay in issuing the album may well have been because of CBS 's anxiety about how it would go with Davis 's fusion fans . |
| 6 | Mark had been educated in England and later decided to live there , and it had been because of him that Harriet had first decided to come to London , though nowadays she saw little of him . |
| 7 | It could n't have been because of that . ’ |
| 8 | Our afternoon was not as enjoyable as it might have been because of a large number of supporters who had to stand alongside our seats in the east stand as they had purchased transfer tickets for seats and there were no seats for them . |
| 9 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 10 | The Doctor 's subsequent relapse might well have been because of Dr McNab 's interference . |
| 11 | The reason all this has not happened has not been because of technical problems but because there is no clear view of how government should a organized or controlled . |
| 12 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 13 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 14 | Karen fears this may have been because of the news coverage the triplets had when they were born . |
| 15 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |
| 16 | and it must of been because of that |
| 17 | He suggested this might have been because at the time an aircraft 6km up was dropping laser-guided bombs onto the next platform ( or target as they are usually known ) . |
| 18 | There are many features of animals which could be improved on , and which are as they are because of the legacy of the past . |
| 19 | THE IRAQIS latest cruel act of jailing British chef Paul Ride and their persistent attacks on Shi'ites are because of our feebleness . |
| 20 | The reality of women 's situation is daily constructed out of these attitudes : women are , in part , the way they are because of the way they are thought to be . |
| 21 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 22 | He could think of nowhere he would rather be than at home , with people he knew and trusted , in a place without secrets . |
| 23 | What better path could there be than through Iran and indeed , along Reza Shahs new railway ? |
| 24 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 25 | An example would be if on a door to a storeroom which contained high-voltage electrical equipment involved in the supply of electricity to the hotel there was a notice which said ‘ Danger : Keep Out : High Voltage ’ . |
| 26 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 27 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 28 | And , if people would appreciate it and keep it as it should be cos to me , I think there 's a lot of error in people neglecting their places . |
| 29 | The situation today is very muddled , software is available for both the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC and its compatibles but even more is just around the corner and it wo n't be until towards the end of the first quarter of next year that the market will have stabilised . |
| 30 | The crunch third , and last , reading will not be until after the second Danish referendum next May . |