Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have . |
| 2 | We could of been in that could , we could of been in er Emmerdale Farm |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ? |
| 4 | Their near-simultaneity was coincidence , in the sense of being beyond all collusion and foreknowledge , though all were by graduates of Oxford engaged in teaching and over the age of thirty . |
| 5 | And there 's wi wide er , spread unemployment and there 's the stress of being as that lady said , a single parent , erm , for women who work and have families they have their old conflict between what they 're doing , doing at home and what they 're doing at their work and who should have a priority . |
| 6 | Kano State Radio is the mouthpiece of the government of Governor Abubakar Rimi , which is a very different thing from being a PRP radio station ; indeed , the PRP , led by the late Aminu Kano , had the doubtful distinction of being without any mass media outlet at all during most of the period between the 1979 and 1983 elections . |
| 7 | The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class . |
| 8 | All this is an integrative vision — linking our health and state of being with that of the landscape itself . |
| 9 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 10 | Still , he was not arrested or forced to flee , and could attend the ‘ Merciless Parliament ’ in February 1388 without fear of being amongst those indicted . |
| 11 | The fact that her husband had fitted an electric light inside the cupboard made no difference at all ; it was the thought of being within that cramped space — even with the door to the hall left open — that Sylvia could not bear . |
| 12 | ‘ Market growth ’ was replaced by Industry attractiveness — a term that in practice was used loosely , to refer to the attractiveness of being in that area of activity in which the SBU operated . |
| 13 | Depth of sleep Many parents say that they think their child wets the bed because of being in such deep sleep . |
| 14 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 15 | As he does that , he is able to point out the way that Jesus is their liberator , from the limitations of being in such a net , to the freedom of a fish with a whole ocean to enjoy . |
| 16 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 17 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 18 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 19 | In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted . |
| 20 | Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive . |
| 21 | For many of the disabled the greatest hardship they suffer is not the frustration and practical problems of lives that are limited by disability but the sense of being in some way segregated from the rest of society . |
| 22 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |
| 23 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 24 | Despite being without several of their leading players , Edinburgh University retained the British Universities Women 's Team Championship , beating Loughborough 65-56 in the final at Sunderland yesterday . |
| 25 | The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’ |
| 27 | It came into being following some wider discussions held in 1982 between Age Concern England and the Department of Psychiatry at Guy 's Hospital about the community services provided for dementia sufferers . |
| 28 | A booking contract between a guest and a hotel may come into being in any one of a number of ways . |
| 29 | Mm it does n't really look as if it it 's got ta be about that thick coming down do you see what I mean ? |
| 30 | Or has it got ta be on this line here ? |