Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being on external display at Lasham , Hants , for twenty years , Dakota G–AMPP has been purchased by Mike Woodley and is being dismantled and moved to North Weald , where , due to its poor condition , it will be examined to see if a restoration programme is viable . |
| 2 | He quarrelled with Rousseau after being on intimate terms with him , but then everybody did . |
| 3 | The basis for that is that over the next few years the South Africans will be on an upward learning curve after being without international competition for so long . |
| 4 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 5 | The business of being between inexperienced girl and experienced woman and the awful problem of the man . |
| 6 | Seek the help of Al Anon of Families Anonymous or other appropriate Anonymous Family Groups in order to meet other people who have similar first-hand experience of the living hell of being at close quarters with the insanity of addictive disease . |
| 7 | In serious mountains that spring might be influenced by the thrill of being at high altitude , while in lower terrain the jauntiness of stride may reflect the rollercoaster of broad panoramas and changing perspectives . |
| 8 | The director , the crew and I stayed at Stromness on the Orkney mainland , in wartime too far to visit because of being at short notice for steam ; and it was an odd feeling crossing over to Hoy in the ferry , then motoring in a taxi down its eastern side to the once familiar anchorage of Gutter Sound . |
| 9 | Eternity should be visualized as a blessed state of being without past or future . |
| 10 | The Order of Things by contrast points to the emergence of historicity as a mode of understanding , and argues that ‘ History ’ , both as a form of knowledge and as the primary state of being of empirical phenomena — broadly speaking , the assumption of all Marxisms — is itself a historical phenomenon . |
| 11 | He may then come to believe that the Created God can be fully capable of fulfilling the need for a ‘ god ’ in some form or other , and of being of immense value to humanity . |
| 12 | The earthquake and eruption in 1980 were epic in the strict sense of being of national and supranational proportions . |
| 13 | ‘ He was weight-weakened for the Lampkin defeat , so it was a case of being to heavy for that fight , and too light when he lost to Lewis . ’ |
| 14 | The Church was the essence of being to Medieval peoples whether in town or village . |
| 15 | Initially Foucault argues that the stasis of what he calls the ‘ Classical Order ’ gave way to ‘ History ’ — which took over both as the form of knowledge and as the fundamental mode of being for empirical phenomena . |
| 16 | Your toddler may also not have much experience of being with other children , and find that learning to mix with them is difficult . |
| 17 | Many Disabled people are wary of being with other Disabled people because this is associated with disempowering situations of segregation and isolation . |
| 18 | I 'm early Easter Monday instead of being on late . |
| 19 | This sense of being on fresh ground where new aspects of behaviour , new distributions and even new species are still to be discovered , adds greatly to the book 's fascination as a comprehensive account of the family . |
| 20 | GPs feel the public does not understand the problems of being on 24-hour call , including the danger of making wrong decisions through fatigue . |
| 21 | We accepted this as just one of the hazards of being on active service . |
| 22 | For all but the very ill or those admitted as an emergency the nurse can help the patient with his problem of being among unfamiliar people by introducing him to the other patients in his immediate vicinity . |
| 23 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 24 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 25 | And the occasional sense of being in total control . |
| 26 | However , she was finding it difficult to stifle the waves of panic which swept through her body at the thought of being in close contact with this man who had once meant so much to her . |
| 27 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 28 | After Yusopov 's reply — which he found despite being in terrible time pressure — the Russian was always likely to escape with a draw . |
| 29 | Despite being in extreme pain and feeling ill , he turned up the following day at rehearsals with long sleeves disguising his burns . |
| 30 | Helen Wrangham was put on a hospital waiting list last April and has not been treated despite being in constant pain , claims her father Peter , of Hart Station . |