Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have .
2 Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ?
3 Their near-simultaneity was coincidence , in the sense of being beyond all collusion and foreknowledge , though all were by graduates of Oxford engaged in teaching and over the age of thirty .
4 And there 's wi wide er , spread unemployment and there 's the stress of being as that lady said , a single parent , erm , for women who work and have families they have their old conflict between what they 're doing , doing at home and what they 're doing at their work and who should have a priority .
5 The reason given for this conviction has been that assessment , in grading pupils ' performance in any given test , would leave some pupils with a sense of being of less value than others in the class .
6 ‘ Market growth ’ was replaced by Industry attractiveness — a term that in practice was used loosely , to refer to the attractiveness of being in that area of activity in which the SBU operated .
7 Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity .
8 It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it .
9 It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories .
10 Here , the elements which are selected as focal ( them , he , and was ) are not new in the sense of not having been mentioned before , but they are new in the sense of being in some way contrastive .
11 For many of the disabled the greatest hardship they suffer is not the frustration and practical problems of lives that are limited by disability but the sense of being in some way segregated from the rest of society .
12 In both these shows , there 's an odd sense of being in some sort of parallel universe : it all looks the same , but the power structure has been weirdly distorted .
13 What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment .
14 Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether .
15 The Falcons are flying again — the RAF parachute display team , that is , and as Mike Rowbottom now reports , their first jump of the new season was a nerve-wracking business despite being in many ways a routine affair .
16 from being at this angle where you 're looking directly
17 The matter particles are described by fields of one-half-integer spin and obey the Pauli exclusion principle , which prevents more than one particle of a given kind from being in any state .
18 However , there are also advantages in being of this gender .
19 Moreover , the international co-operation originally envisaged by the fathers of EDC is much in evidence and that ‘ nucleus of people knowledgeable in Mathematics curriculum ’ is already in being in some countries .
20 Hopefully he 's interested in being in this band that we 're trying to put together .
21 The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations .
22 You have no transmitter on the loose ferret so the only possible means of location has to be via that Norfolk long-spade — used as a listening device .
23 ‘ Are n't Time Lords supposed to be above that sort of language ? ’
24 Within this trickle of a song , Morrissey defends his much maligned plagiarism with a comical air of one who considers himself , quite rightly , to be above such charges .
25 While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively .
26 They have to be to each other what Minny and I are .
27 First , the authority of the lecturer in the teaching relationship has to be to some degree granted by the student .
28 The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument .
29 Emerson revealed that both those who continued working and those who retired ‘ appeared to be to some extent affected by rather garbled information concerning retirement impact ’ ( Emerson 1959 ) .
30 Secondly , an exemption clause may be partially effective if it is shown to be to some extent reasonable .
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