Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the feeling that you must of necessity always be at the client 's beck and call , and some clients have been known to take advantage of this situation . |
| 2 | The recent debate concerning the role of RE in the new legislation of 1988 has shown how powerful this attitude towards religion still is among politicians , the church and the public at large . |
| 3 | Otherwise , what can be seen of Patrington today is of the 18th century or later . |
| 4 | The Crisis and Truce Model rests on the assumption that the difficulty of management today is in finding an opportunity to use authority . |
| 5 | And then he claims that the list of circumstances above were among the factors needed to produce the revolution in Russia . |
| 6 | Perhaps the biggest area of misunderstanding here is in our approach to our American customers and competitors , where we are lulled into complacency by our similar language . |
| 7 | The CEMWC 's suggestion of 17 , as opposed to 16 as the age of consent then was for heterosexual relations , was made on the basis that the higher age would provide ‘ better protection of youth ’ . |
| 8 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 9 | Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ? |
| 10 | Greater specialisation can also narrow horizons : ‘ For me , the highest pinnacle of achievement now is to be the director of a broadcast production . |
| 11 | The variety of colour here is in contrast to the simplicity elsewhere around Augusta ; all white clubhouse , lush greenness and yellow flags . |
| 12 | A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with . |
| 13 | The only means of advance now is for those able to buy the council house in which they live . |
| 14 | In fact , a new career opening or a new way of life altogether is on offer around the 29th which ca n't be refused . |
| 15 | Watching the Secretary of State today was like watching Jesse James leading a bunch of desperadoes governing the country like a bunch of robbers . |
| 16 | Unaware of how common this outburst of activity really is among housebound cats , they interpret it as some sort of abnormality and may even call in the vet to examine the animal . |
| 17 | Again , the pavements under consideration here are in the southeastern part of the province . |
| 18 | The talk in Moscow now is of a 21-year-old ballerina called Nadezhda Gratchova . |
| 19 | Though the trend in tennis today is towards the high-tech , powerful , graphite rackets , often with larger heads , many women find them a little heavy and sometimes even a bit too large . |
| 20 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 21 | But certainly it appears that around 1 in 10 of the seizures of cocaine in Britain now is in the form of crack . |
| 22 | Around 1540 mining was most active in the far west of Cornwall , in particular between St Just in Penwith and Newlyn , and ‘ from ther to Looe Pool ’ and Helston , and there were ‘ no greater tynne workes in Cornwall then be on Sir William Godalchan 's ground ’ in and near Breage . |
| 23 | Yet the gains from liberalising trade in services alone are worth $600 billion a year . |
| 24 | Their bark , if bark it was , possessed a highly reflective surface , so that to move forward was to be accompanied by a multitudinous army of distortions of oneself . |
| 25 | Residential care may be necessary not simply for the medical emergencies of starvation in anorexia or electrolyte imbalance in both anorexia arid bulimia but also to monitor adherence to the requirements of basic physical abstinence — This monitoring commonly may need to extend to patients initially being on " locked bathroom " status so that they may not use baths , basins or showers except under staff supervision , nor may they flush lavatories until after staff inspection . |
| 26 | At its basis is the stale-mate of the party political system which has perverted its raison d'ëtre into mere self-perpetuation the same stale-mate which led to Italy still being without a government three months after the April elections . |
| 27 | Dollar expenditure on tobacco alone is at present ten times that on timber . |
| 28 | Referee Joe Timmons , who sent off two Dundee players for innocuous offences at Broomfield recently was in more lenient mood this time round . |