Example sentences of "[adv] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cockcroft Report pointed out that traditionally mathematics in school has rarely been about anything . |
| 2 | In America , Turner shares management with Greenwich Village songstress Suzanne Vega , a factor which he feels has not entirely been in his favour . |
| 3 | She 's only been with me a week , and I think that a handicapped child 's need is greater than mine . ’ |
| 4 | She 's only been with me six weeks . |
| 5 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 6 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 8 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 9 | During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community . |
| 10 | You get it in the stew you ca n't find it he 's only been on your fur for christ sake |
| 11 | only been off my work for about er seven days . |
| 12 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 13 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 14 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 15 | Like the poor themselves , the inner city has long been with us . |
| 16 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 17 | Wrathfully indignant at his mother 's lack of appreciation of his efforts as a mechanic , an idea which had long been in his mind , that of writing a novel , had crystallized . |
| 18 | ‘ However , it 's all been worth it , ’ he says . |
| 19 | After a weekend of brooding silence and no service , Nigel began to think it had all been worth it . |
| 20 | Oh yes , it had all been worth it . |
| 21 | He says it 's taken a year to edit , but it 's all been worth it . |
| 22 | I started on January 10 , but it 's all been worth it . ’ |
| 23 | We 've all been through it and we know what pain 's about . ’ |
| 24 | We 've all been through it . |
| 25 | So far , it 's all been on your terms . |
| 26 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 27 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |
| 28 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 29 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 30 | Now , the much-repeated phrase is : ‘ The past 40 years have all been for nought ’ . |