Example sentences of "be [prep] these " in BNC.

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1 Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other .
2 ‘ Father Poole , you ca n't imagine the hell I 've been through these past few weeks . ’
3 But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics .
4 Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive .
5 There are times these days when I feel so starved of warmth that the instructions on a painkiller packet or vitamin tub ( " At the first sign of a cold developing be sure to … " ) can make me go all husky and brave .
6 Clearly , the divisions among this group of short-term markets will be even less watertight than they are between these and the capital markets .
7 R&D workers are between these extremes .
8 The group of products falling into the three diagonal squares are between these two extremes on one or both axes .
9 And when it comes down to it , most of the ethical arguments are about these two differences of approach .
10 There should be such a requirement in Britain , instead of just relying that we are about these orders er on the o o on the er auditors er them that that that the the themselves .
11 Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ?
12 The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are .
13 They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things .
14 If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ?
15 Men should be walking about on Earth in a state of intoxication and delight , yet here we are amid these real riches and most people are miserable and peevish .
16 Yet the eight globins , descendants as they are of these remote branchings in distant ancestors , are still all present inside every one of us .
17 You 're like these dames who see two knives crossed on the table , then start a row to prove it 's a bad sign .
18 I think , think it 's best maybe we 're into these sort of formal words of consultation and discussion , maybe if we invite comment on , on the service changes really , or the reductions or cuts or whatever you want to describe them as , er , in relation to how they affect user groups .
19 But does anybody give a toss where you 're from these days ?
20 What else can they want if they 're in these behind-the-arras jobs ?
21 Right and they had this bit they 're in these white sailor 's uniform and they 're stripping the gloves off which was really uninteresting but they all looked really , you know , smart and they were saluting .
22 ‘ And what 's she been like these last months ? ’
23 Thanks to him and the rest who are behind these outrageous accusations , the Pakistanis ' reputations will probably be in tatters. —
24 ‘ Others more qualified than I am in these matters can comment on the economic sense or otherwise of the proposed pit closures .
25 Never for the future come near me when I am in these tumults unless I send for you .
26 It is true that as human beings we may be able to empathize with social work clients who are short of money or bereaved as we probably have been in these situations ourselves .
27 It must have been in these years that Henry II and Eleanor became increasingly estranged .
28 There are no screen credits at the beginnings of dreams to tell you what sort of film you are going to see , but there might as well have been in these nightmares , because the tenor , horror or guilt is excruciatingly present before the first scenes have even been played .
29 And how long have you been in these particular premises ?
30 Merlin had been in these parts , Joseph Robinson had told him .
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