Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | The archivists in this collection are predominantly from institutions which hold electronic data , usually created via official social surveys or opinion polls . |
| 3 | The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos . |
| 4 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 5 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 6 | ‘ Actors , ’ he once said , ‘ are rather like gangsters : people on the edge of society , ruthless people who suffer . ’ |
| 7 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 8 | FILMS about the human sex act are rather like books on the same subject . |
| 9 | ‘ You are right of course , my lady . |
| 10 | Because it considers that capitalist economies are fundamentally in dis-equilibrium and each regulation system which controls them breaks down eventually , its view of history does not include the regular and predictable cyclical pattern of long-wave theory . |
| 11 | He remarked however that there was little to choose between kitchen and living-room in respect of air , since the oven had been on since dawn . |
| 12 | Cos they 've been on about people |
| 13 | not been on for ages . |
| 14 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 15 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 16 | I 've been on to Di this long time and have one like that , then you can and put down so you can have more room , you know , when you put it out . |
| 17 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been on to Mallachy . |
| 19 | ‘ If Devlin is as smart as I think he is , Jack , he 's been on to Frear from the start . |
| 20 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 21 | Fraser said wearily , ‘ Have you been on to Dublin ? ’ |
| 22 | He 's just been on to Maureen , got a couple of orders bearings and an Anglia contact . |
| 23 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 24 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 25 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 26 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
| 27 | Such people are effectively under house arrest . |
| 28 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 29 | Novell 's network products are mostly for PCs , but the next few years will see them move into the traditional minicomputer market with support for a number of minicomputer systems , thus re-enforcing their dominance . |
| 30 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |