Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that someone is being kept out of the know , and it 's often been me in the past , and it 's me now . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 3 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 4 | How can a man who believes that from foetus to Senior Citizen Railcard his existence has been nothing but a nuisance , that in his wake he has left nothing but pain and trouble , possibly love himself ? |
| 5 | It 's been nothing but Dennis , Dennis , Dennis ( or days now . |
| 6 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 7 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 8 | We can then consider the implications of this analysis for one of the general views identified in the introduction — that there has been nothing but conflict between science and religion . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's been nothing but a nuisance all her life . ’ |
| 10 | They 've been nothing but trouble since they arrived here . |
| 11 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 12 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 13 | had been nothing but a black window space . |
| 14 | In these three months there has been nothing but support for this scheme , some of it qualified , but nevertheless support , that it should go ahead . |
| 15 | What had happened hours ago , a lifetime ago , when he 'd kissed her , had been nothing but an aberration . |
| 16 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 17 | I 'm beginning to think that car park has been nothing but trouble since it was built . ’ |
| 18 | Yet since his father 's death there had been nothing between him and his sister but companionship , affection , peace . |
| 19 | One day , while we were sitting around having some coffee with a few other actors , he suddenly said , ‘ Of course The Magnificent Seven would have been nothing without me . ’ |
| 20 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 21 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 22 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 23 | It was now thrashing feebly about in the straw trying to get its tangle of legs in order , a whole , complete , new horse — when five minutes ago there had been nothing at all save him thinking Firelight had indigestion . |
| 24 | There had been nothing at all before . |
| 25 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 26 | Then added more calmly : ‘ There 's been nothing on television or in the papers about any cut on the victims ’ foreheads . |
| 27 | ‘ You know how word gets out in the golf business , but there 's been nothing on this one . |
| 28 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 29 | For one thing , there has been nothing in the festival from the really great names , save for Satyajit Ray , whose transposition of An Enemy Of The People seems to me , though hardly on the top level of his work , to be both eloquent and deeply felt . |
| 30 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |