Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 2 | I thought it might 've been to a Royal Garden Party |
| 3 | I see you 've been to the hospital , or something like that . |
| 4 | ‘ It should 've been with the batch of papers given . |
| 5 | I told him it must 've been about the Royal Garden Party . |
| 6 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 7 | The instructions provide a generative programme , the folding and unfolding are like the contractions and changes in contact in cell sheets in the embryo . |
| 8 | The advantage of this argument is that it allows one to define literature 's relation to reality in a much more positive and coherent way : both literature and the reality which it represents are of the same order and , according to Bakhtin , this order is ideological . |
| 9 | Nearly half of those registered are in the jobs market for the first time . |
| 10 | The scientific and engineering skills which we have developed are at the cutting edge of nuclear technology , and through subsequent diversification , are improving the competitive position of customers in over 70 countries and more than 2000 organisations worldwide . |
| 11 | Because the calories consumed are in the form of particularly bulky , filling and satisfying food your appetite will not be sharpened nor your willpower lowered by actual physical hunger . |
| 12 | Its pleasingness rests purely within the intrinsic aesthetic since the similarities intended are of a purely visual nature . |
| 13 | It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy . |
| 14 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 15 | The amounts given are for a tank : |
| 16 | The perceptual distinctions we make are of the very stuff of our existence , and in some way the foundation of all else . |
| 17 | If we accept that we can not prevent science and technology from changing our world , we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions . |
| 18 | Secondly , as Knox argued after publication of the RAWP report , people who are dying are among the heaviest users of services . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me , ’ Gaily said , ‘ that all the clothes either of us has are in the bag or on our backs . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He has been worth every penny we have spent and every tear we have shed . |
| 21 | No wonder Souness has been into the transfer market for a new centre back . |
| 22 | So our National Anthem has been about a bit , particularly when you think that it came , probably came from , or was used in , erm a piece of music simply by Haydn . |
| 23 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |
| 24 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
| 25 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 26 | This week has been about the library . |
| 27 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 28 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 29 | The main historical tension here has been between the institution ( typically the university ) and the professional body . |
| 30 | One of the major divisions has been between the Japanese and the Europeans . |