Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All you want that tape for is cos it 's got a microphone in n it ? |
| 2 | The Stevens boys manned the ferry until the outbreak of was although Mabel often helped out . |
| 3 | The thematic of historicity … has always been required by the determination of Being as presence … |
| 4 | He knew he was disappointing where the riding was concerned , although no one had actually told him so — the whole business of being as one with the animal he rode seemed to elude him . |
| 5 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 6 | erm and given the right weather , there is no better place to be than in the Thames and Chilterns . |
| 7 | Set in the lively end of town , and new for Summer '90 , the attractive Magamar apartments are the place to be if you want to see as much motion as lotion ! |
| 8 | With the continued proliferation of the private car , the consequent development of road building schemes , and the increased expectation of mobility among the public at large , the roadside is the place to be if you are in the restaurant business . |
| 9 | Lei Leicester 's the place to be if you 're a scientist in it ? , bloody hell |
| 10 | First day of three : Durham are 119–0 in their first innings against Oxford University BROWNING was probably right in suggesting that England is the place to be when April comes — but not as far as cricketers are concerned . |
| 11 | Not that this should put off the more cautious or less experienced , because although the Mournes are no place to be when the mist is thick and low , the famous Mourne Wall is never far away and provides an excellent point of reference . |
| 12 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 13 | I had every right to be if there was going to be this sort of hostility between the two of them all the way down into the ice . |
| 14 | Brentford had a player sent off but no excuse for the second goal … the fans are angry … they 've every right to be when you see a team give away goals like this … |
| 15 | The right to be as fucked up as men . |
| 16 | I realise now that this is how I wanted things to be when I was a small girl and came home from school . |
| 17 | Nisodemus wants things to be as they were . |
| 18 | Oh , Shelley , Clive was a nice enough person and he was always good to me , but he was n't right for me , and although I appeared to live happily I used to long for things to be as they were between Felipe and me . |
| 19 | Ashton described the innocence , piety and wonder of the Bride at the event to be when he created the exquisitely detailed hand movements in The Wise Virgins , as he did for La Péri and Madame Chrysanthème . |
| 20 | How can it be consistent — perhaps the Prime Minister will answer the question now , since he did not answer the Leader of the Opposition — for the Prime Minister 's policy to be as expressed in the statement but for that policy to be opposed to a comprehensive test ban treaty ? |
| 21 | She can enjoy the last freedom to be as she is ; her pursuits may seem strange , but after her death it may be discovered that her treasured collection — of old cups , pressed flowers , or newspaper cuttings — is quite priceless . |
| 22 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 23 | Basically every day is an effort , that 's the reality , and there 's a great tendency to want life to be as it was . |
| 24 | That 's the reality ; you want life to be as it was . |
| 25 | We , Barnabas James Thomas and Joseph Jex Taylor both of 1 Victoria Street , Westminster , Civil Engineers , and Gordon Cale Thomas of Marsworth in the County of Bucks. , Civil Engineer , do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows : — |
| 26 | We , Barnabas James Thomas and Joseph Jex Taylor , both of 1 Victoria Street , Westminster , Civil Engineers ; and Gordon Cale Thomas of Marsworth , in the County of Bucks. , Civil Engineer , do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows : — |
| 27 | He looked scared to death , and he had reason to be for he was doubly identified by both of us . |
| 28 | The application by Mr. Wadsworth on behalf of the appellants to adduce fresh evidence before this court is for the purpose of explaining the appellants ' apparently defiant behaviour towards the judge , and the first question we have to address our minds to is whether that evidence should be admitted . |
| 29 | The realities of being in a situation where you ca n't choose your employment , which is an awful way to be when you do n't have any skills and you have to take whatever is dished out … there 's nothing worse than having to take what 's available . |
| 30 | later that day , looking in the Pennine Alps Central guidebook we saw it was n't technically hard [ PD7plusmn ; ( about V Diff ) ] but was committing , a long way from base and a bad spot to be when the weather breaks . |