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Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won
2	Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia .
3	Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy .
4	I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years .
5	I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
6	The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are .
7	What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years .
8	Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ?
9	Statistics alone are of little use in literary criticism , and I present the table more as a finding-list than anything else .
10	It 'd better be after all those needles they stuck in me so I wo n't get beri-beri and co .
11	Often , such a realization arising from contact with other ageing people can alone be worth several face-to-face counselling sessions .
12	You 're right , I mean you would obviously be in that position if you were going to turn left , but if you 're If you 're going to go down there by all means , but it 's safer if y Say you 're you 're n car number two behind car number one in position two and he 's inc signalling left .
13	Mm , well it will only be for this session anyway , movement ?
14	The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately .
15	‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here .
16	‘ We were told we would only be in this house temporarily when we moved here .
17	The eventual landfall of the aircraft could only be within that limited area .
18	Similarly the human being can attain happiness , but it will only be after many years that this fruit of the human mind will be tasted .
19	The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations .
20	It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about .
21	Er but erm this gives an idea of the railway lines that er well basically were in this area , erm I suppose er still round about nineteen fifty sixty time .
22	True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth .
23	The latter item alone is worth all that effort !
24	The fact that the power of was not confined to the Mufti alone is of some importance in assessing the nature of the Muftilik in general and will therefore be dealt with in greater detail further on ; suffice it to say for the moment that Mustakimzade 's argument is disappointing in its lack of development and of positive evidence in support of it and that , in the terms in which it is stated and in view of the material he seems to have used in compiling his book , his argument might equally well apply to Molla Fenari .
25	It may have sounded like good fun , and obviously was for many young people , but this pleasurable diversion had a very serious side which went beyond romance .
26	From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin .
27	And the date see , Mrs so and so was in that caravan on such and such date !
28	‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’
29	And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies .
30	‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ .