Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |
| 2 | Some of these techniques are for use specifically with patients having , or suspected of having , some kind of damage to the brain . |
| 3 | I was staggered at how much cheaper the prices are for food both in cafes and restaurants , and in markets , than they are here in the country . |
| 4 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |
| 5 | This point was expressed by Lord Herschell in Vagliano as follows : I am of course far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the provisions of the code . |
| 6 | The collection and computerization of data will form the basis for investigation of six areas of Korean development which are considered to be under-researched by both Koreans and Korean specialists , and which are of relevance both to development policy and to the identification of future potential economic opportunities for Britain in South Korea as well as the future impact of Korea on the world economy . |
| 7 | Spike also said " We are of course quite near the coast " . |
| 8 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 9 | This challenges the assumption that such programmes are of interest only to a specialist few : |
| 10 | Collections of dried plants are of interest only to the dedicated or desiccated botanist ; and much the same applies to systematic collections of beetles or of fleas . |
| 11 | Such a design can be generalized to allow comparisons among more than two experimental treatments , though the rarity of human triplets , quadruplets , etc. , means that the techniques are of use primarily in animal or plant studies . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , this also means that they are of value only to those users who have the expertise and the authority to make more detailed investigations . |
| 13 | Sufferers get better in the Fellowships ; treatment centres and counsellors are of value only in so far as they help sufferers towards an understanding of the principles and processes of the Fellowships . |
| 14 | Physical maturation is a critical factor in the attainment of continence although emotional factors are of importance particularly in secondary enuresis . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're for choice right across the board . |
| 16 | On Saturday , they 're at home again to Portsmouth . |
| 17 | A hundred and ninety jobs in the health service are under threat tonight from a management shake-up . |
| 18 | Are the homes that are under threat though at the moment ? |
| 19 | This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years . |
| 20 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 21 | Mr. Peter Walker : I am in touch regularly with the chairman and deputy chairman to discuss issues of mutual interest . |
| 22 | His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet . |
| 23 | I 've been in London now for two months . |
| 24 | They have been in Perth now for nine years and in business as McKays for three , providing , as Lesley McKay explained , ‘ accounting services to companies that have grown big enough to need an accountant or finance director , but not big enough to afford one full-time ’ . |
| 25 | He had been in court before on charges of violence but never for anything like murder . |
| 26 | Negotiations had been in progress sporadically since the 1970s and covered property in the areas of East Prussia , eastern Poland , the Baltic states and Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 28 | Autocover , our Motor Insurance Scheme has been in operation now for over eleven years . |
| 29 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 30 | Of the two , Mr Yates , who will be 81 in November and has been in Congress almost without a break since he was first elected in 1948 , had the easier time of it . |