Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 2 | But new questions about the relations of language and what language represents are of great importance to our understanding of Renaissance culture . |
| 3 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 4 | Devises are of two kinds only , specific and residuary . |
| 5 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |
| 6 | The Tories are , wisely , keeping their boy away from most of the rough stuff — rightly recognising that such strengths as he has are in his niceness — but he has to look like he wants to win sometimes . |
| 7 | In Washington , President Bush appeared in the White House press room to tell reporters ‘ Yes , it has been worth it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He has been worth every penny we have spent and every tear we have shed . |
| 9 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 10 | Over the years Muir has been through thick and thin with Tranmere , and has been worth his weight in gold . |
| 11 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
| 12 | No wonder Souness has been into the transfer market for a new centre back . |
| 13 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 14 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 15 | More importantly , historically the key feature of police work has been about maintaining a particular form of social order on the street . |
| 16 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 17 | In Japan , talk of corporate governance has been about as common as sararimen in bowler hats . |
| 18 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 19 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 20 | But the Conservative record has been about more than increasing spending . |
| 21 | In contrast the long-wave school focuses more precisely on technology , though it is notable that much of the debate within that school has been about what causes technological change and how that change should be seen as part of a wider system . |
| 22 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 23 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 24 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 25 | Most of this book has been about mainstream mental health care of adult people . |
| 26 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 27 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 28 | While the debate surrounding this reform has been extensive , there is reason to argue that ‘ Most of the debate has been about controlling local authority expenditure , about voters , about redistribution among households and about administrative issues ’ ( Muellbauer 1987 , p. 7 ) . |
| 29 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 30 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |