Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two weeks later , another patient , an 84-year-old man , died after being on a trolley for 13 hours . |
| 2 | But as Belgian employees are given extensive rights after being with a company for 12 months , many employers prefer to employ a high number of temporary staff , which may include foreigners . |
| 3 | These rocks are covered in algae after being in a small tank under an ordinary 60 watt bulb and not containing fish . |
| 4 | For the fifth time this year , he was made to struggle in the final round after being in a seemingly impregnable position . |
| 5 | One thing which will prove very disconcerting for a young puppy is to be left on its own in kennels after being in a home for just a few weeks . |
| 6 | If you or others get these problems after being in a room with a gas appliance burning , see a doctor , stop using the appliance and get somebody to see to it . |
| 7 | Robert Heslop , 70 , of Tanfield Lea , Stanley , Co Durham , died from head injuries after being in an accident with a police car on Saturday night while crossing a road . |
| 8 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 9 | now that tape that 's in now , tt , there 's a little bit at the front of that and it 's been on , oh it must of been on a fortnight and it does n't matter what you record |
| 10 | , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally |
| 11 | Yes , we had the Labour candidate knocking on our door yesterday and I think John must of been in a right foul mood , cos he he says come in and talk to me |
| 12 | Well it , when he , she originally wanted him to do plans to make the third bedroom bigger which would of been like an L shaped bedroom |
| 13 | exactly what I 's expect and you may find they actually sort of are on a down-slope still . |
| 14 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 15 | But the underlying idea of being at a loose end , or out of the practical swim , is a different matter altogether . |
| 16 | For a moment she had the strong feeling of being at a funeral . |
| 17 | The experience of being at a full-blown Quaker school made a profound impression on me . |
| 18 | One of the benefits of being at a university is the range of lectures that are put on each week on topics ranging from Chinese ceramics to nuclear power stations . |
| 19 | This corresponds to the main character 's own personal situation of being without a man . |
| 20 | It is consistently found that the impact of being without a job varies between groups of people , and research attention is particularly directed to the identification of variables which might moderate this impact : for example , age , socio-economic status , sex , length of unemployment , personal employment commitment , and psychological vulnerability . |
| 21 | Collection of a library of photographs of known and unfamiliar faces that can then be selected on the basis of being of a similar degree of familiarity , of similar appearance , or of similar occupation . |
| 22 | This involves — whether we like it or not — teaching them how to think ; the capacity for being scholars in the true sense of the word has to be shared with everyone instead of being for an elite of specially gifted , specially privileged pupils . |
| 23 | I believe the excitement of being with a criminal turned her on . |
| 24 | When he had sex , he secretly fantasised that he was the woman but even that was confusing because the concept of being with a man repulsed him . |
| 25 | Tagore had this feeling of being on a seat where poets of all times brought their tribute — |
| 26 | The new church should not be dismayed at trouble within or without in the early stages : it may well come as a result of being on a collision course with the forces of evil who , putting it bluntly , do not want the new church to survive ! |
| 27 | The future inhabitants of this mini-estate can look forward to persistent heavy traffic noise made more acute by the amphitheatre effect of being on a hillside . |
| 28 | Reference is made to the unconstructive nature of housework tasks , to the emotionally frustrating sense of being on a treadmill that requires the same action to be repeated again and again ; |
| 29 | This gave the impression of being on a different plane altogether — or even a different train altogether — and most passengers would soon pass by . |
| 30 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |