Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He quarrelled with Rousseau after being on intimate terms with him , but then everybody did . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Conversely they may find it difficult to adapt to poor lighting conditions , and they may be nervous when coming indoors after being in brighter light outside . |
| 6 | Essex , after being within one rubber off going down still further , are destined for another season in Group 2 , but Lancashire , dropping only five rubbers , have already started their climb back by winning Group 3a . |
| 7 | Oh it could only of been at five thirty |
| 8 | Must of been on one of the other computers and er it went on for ages and it was you know it 's was irritating more than anything ! |
| 9 | pathetic , it 's gon na freeze up again this afternoon down at Bournemouth , gon na have fish off the pier , go for some bees , but I could n't be bothered but there was nothing , it was too damn cold , it must of been minus five with the wind chill factor |
| 10 | We could of been in that could , we could of been in er Emmerdale Farm |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 13 | The business of being between inexperienced girl and experienced woman and the awful problem of the man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You 've got experience of being at two other universities . |
| 17 | You 've got experience of being at two other universities , you 've did your undergraduate work at York and then you did a doctorate at Oxford . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Eternity should be visualized as a blessed state of being without past or future . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The earthquake and eruption in 1980 were epic in the strict sense of being of national and supranational proportions . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The Church was the essence of being to Medieval peoples whether in town or village . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | All this is an integrative vision — linking our health and state of being with that of the landscape itself . |