Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main argument or basic responses you have been searching for are short statements which represent a stance or attitude to the question . |
| 2 | Somewhere in between are good plants for small gardens , only reaching about 2ft with a far daintier habit . |
| 3 | What we are being asked to choose between are promissory notes , not achievements . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the bits in between are hard work and ultimately are not really worth the bother . |
| 5 | The combinations in between are those cases where neither sex has clearly won , but neither do that badly . |
| 6 | Tony Greener was appointed chairman of Guinness PLC in January 1993 , after being chief executive from January 1992 . |
| 7 | Northern Ireland 's World Cup downfall really started with that opening match against the Lithuanians at Windsor Park in April ‘ 92 when , after being two goals ahead , they went walkabout and Lithuania hit back to draw . |
| 8 | ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’ |
| 9 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 10 | ( In 1971 , Arsenal won the Double after being six points behind leaders Leeds United at the time of the semi-final . ) |
| 11 | I was n't Marti Caine at that stage , I was Zoe Bond , but only after being Sunny Smith for three weeks . |
| 12 | it must of been about Tuesday , it must of been first day |
| 13 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 14 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 15 | So it must of been this afternoon when |
| 16 | But I mean there was er , they were so kind to them in the hospital if there would of been any sign of distress they would of , you know , usually anyway you do n't usually have distress at the end you 're usually at peace are n't you ? |
| 17 | would there of been any problem at all in your providing it ? |
| 18 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 19 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |
| 20 | Must of been clean mud , I du n no ! |
| 21 | It must of enlightened them on what the scriptures meant , by the sacred secret , cos before it must of been some kind of weird mystery to them |
| 22 | it 's sort of in relation to it , there must of been some reason why he said that to take them to , hear more to other people |
| 23 | That must of been some time ago |
| 24 | there must of been some relation problem with each other , the earlier erm thing |
| 25 | some local paper or even , might of been Daily Express or summat like that you see |
| 26 | you know got enough to go to university , things like that to of been top dog all your school life , it might do you good not to be |
| 27 | Well there 'd ought to of been more control but apparently now , you know how the Indians come over here , all the time do n't they ? |
| 28 | Must of been last Christmas cos |
| 29 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 30 | I do n't know though I mean he , he 's , he 's allowed that , he allowed that the fact that they could of been unarmed men and all that but he also condemned three of them on the evidence of this lead which he really should n't of done , he should of left an open verdict on those few cos lead could be transferred to . |