Example sentences of "be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 3 | This shows , for instance , that the element most closely related to extremely is fast : these two are co-constituents of the adjective phrase construction . |
| 4 | It will be recalled that associatives are adjectives of which the properties are specifically not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase in which they figure . |
| 5 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 6 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 7 | His snores are thunder in the night . |
| 8 | There has also been centralization in the public services . |
| 9 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 10 | Pheasants are birds of Asian origin , including the covert pheasants seen in the English countryside and bred for shooting . |
| 11 | ( The name , ‘ wheat ear ’ , is derived from its earlier name , ‘ white-arse ’ ! – Wheat ears are birds of hilly country , of short turf and boulders , of bracken , and of rabbit holes in which they can nest . |
| 12 | Among those which have reproduced in large numbers are birds of prey , including ospreys , marsh harriers and red kites — the latter having their most successful year for a century , with 79 breeding pairs in Wales raising 93 chicks . |
| 13 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 14 | But she admits : ‘ Yes , there have been times of anger and frustration for me as well as Jack . |
| 15 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 16 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 17 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 18 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 19 | These findings are products with definite conditions of production . |
| 20 | Senior men , such as Charlie Nicholas , Paul McStay and Peter Grant and younger players like Gerry Creaney and Derek Whyte are products of Celtic Boys Club football ; their allegiance to Celtic goes far beyond a pay packet . |
| 21 | Many of the latest appointees to influential positions are products of Dorothy Heathcote 's and my own teaching . |
| 22 | Union Maids , The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter and , in this country , Women of the Rhondda are products of early feminist oral history , often interspersed with historical documentary footage . |
| 23 | Recreation , tourism and sport are products of the industrial era , and especially the result of increasing leisure time since the Second World War . |
| 24 | They are products of , on one hand , women 's own activities and values , or on the other , their oppression by men . |
| 25 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 26 | Both the bourgeois ideology and the proletarian false consciousness are products of particular social relations present in capitalism . |
| 27 | They argued that categories such as crime and mental illness ( and they could have added child abuse ) do not occur naturally , but are products of social definition . |
| 28 | Glial growth factors , proteins that are mitogenic for Schwann cells , and several ligands for the p185 erbB2 receptor , are products of the same gene . |
| 29 | Comparison of our GGF clones with these sequences reveals that the glial growth factors and those ligands , namely the neu differentiation factor ( NDF ) and the heregulins , are products of the same gene . |
| 30 | Although the three purified GGFs are products of one gene , specific assignment of a single mRNA to each protein is made difficult by the large number of alternatively spliced mRNA variants . |