Example sentences of "[prep] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combinations in between are those cases where neither sex has clearly won , but neither do that badly . |
| 2 | So it must of been this afternoon when |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | would there of been any problem at all in your providing it ? |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | That must of been some time ago |
| 8 | there must of been some relation problem with each other , the earlier erm thing |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 11 | That is part of the meaning revealed through the Incarnation and it is this spontaneous integrity of being that mystics glimpse and in so doing serve and inspire the Christian society , of which they are a part , struggling to repair the ravages of sin . |
| 12 | To think of being that man , wrestling with the heavy awkward lumps of metal in that maelstrom of heat , dust and stench , deafened by the unspeakable noise of the vibrating grid , working like that for hour after hour , day after day … |
| 13 | She looked at Roman , so strong and dependable ; any woman would give thanks every day of her life for a man like him , and she had just ruined any chance she had of being that woman . |
| 14 | This is n't the way that the current system reasons , and I would certainly like to take the current system and push it in this direction of being more expert in a human sense . |
| 15 | She did n't remember that only minutes before he had accused her of being another man 's discarded woman . |
| 16 | What I 'm afraid of is that price liberalisation could enable producers of coal , steel and other raw materials to dictate high prices because of their monopoly position . |
| 17 | An important point to be aware of is that insurance and other financial companies may give illustrative projections of their investment performance . |
| 18 | All I could think of was that joke — ‘ What has four legs and an arm ? |
| 19 | What she could not have thought of was this sort of permanent liaison , almost a marriage . |
| 20 | Now England have got one last chance to cope with that problem in what looks like being another turning pitch . |
| 21 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
| 22 | Yellow looks like being this year 's colour — the banana does not seem to be able to stay out of the headlines . |
| 23 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 24 | The War Office Section MO 9 came into being that afternoon and began steps to raise the special force of commandos named after those Boer farmers of the South African war . |
| 25 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 26 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 27 | What we are constantly being fed with is that unemployment figures have been falling , that a successful economic miracle has taken place , that unemployment is a thing of the past . |
| 28 | The only sensation he could equate it with was that remoteness that comes during a long run , when the lines of the play get delivered every night , but the actor 's mind is miles away , thinking about anything but the performance he is giving . |
| 29 | gave a lecture and all she came in with was some notes written out on some full scape paper and some papers for the over head projector |
| 30 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |