Example sentences of "be [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |
| 2 | Have the parents been through an approved character test ? 3 . |
| 3 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 4 | ‘ She has been through an awful lot , ’ says Ann . |
| 5 | The new educational framework , which has been through an extensive consultation process with practice committees and the Regions , will replace the current Member Part 1 and 11 examinations and will be phased in from September next year . |
| 6 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
| 7 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 8 | They should remember that it would all have ended seven matches earlier if it had not been for an 88th-minute equaliser against Bashley on September 16 . |
| 9 | If it had not been for an alliance of Dr Newman , consultant ecologist Doug Cross and Walter Roberts — three local residents who formed the Camelford Scientific Advisory Panel and conducted their own investigations — and for John Lewis , who lost his job , it is doubtful whether very much would ever have come out about the incident . |
| 10 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 11 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 12 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 13 | To the keen birdwatcher these two species alone are worth an expedition . |
| 14 | Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it 's over lunch and only then if you 're involved in a takeover bid . |
| 15 | The gazettes are worth an army of 300,000 men to Napoleon . |
| 16 | The first had been during an attack by the Saracens in the Middle Ages and the second during an earthquake . |
| 17 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 18 | I am as an invalid housewife , unresourceful and unknowing , who leaves business to her husband . |
| 19 | Their proposals for ‘ Port of Tyne North ’ ( the White hill Point site of the Port of Tyne Authority ) are for an arena , marina , riverside village and exhibition space . |
| 20 | The numbers given in Table 4.2 are for an imaginary field in , say , January . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most interesting uses of the cube are as an intricate and interesting concrete example in group theory and , to a lesser degree , in combinatorics . |
| 22 | Can you now describe the kind of person you are as an adult ? |
| 23 | Very broadly these are as an emergency , via a GP referral , from an out-patient clinic or via a waiting list . |
| 24 | are as an instance do that , the present government er last year , in fact since it some over , it was the seventy nine , er nineteen seventy nine . |
| 25 | Many of the big vipers possess fangs that are about an inch long , but the gaboon 's huge teeth are nearly 2 inches in length , penetrating well into the deeper tissues where there is a rich supply of blood vessels to carry the poison away . |
| 26 | That is , roles are normatively defined : the expectations are about an ideal pattern of behaviour to which actual behaviour only approximates . |
| 27 | They are about an interesting a bunch of people that you could ever hope to meet . |
| 28 | To make sure of early germination , the trays will have to be placed in a slightly heated propagating case — but taken out as soon as the seedlings are about an inch high and kept in warmth and good light . |
| 29 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 30 | One of the main tasks of the SCAWD and its Secretary has been as an educational resource for conferences , congregations and local church groups , working mainly on international justice and peace issues and solidarity concerns . |