Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victims have said that it is a way of acknowledging that they are worth something — a common psychological problem after being a victim of a serious crime , is a feeling of worthlessness . |
| 2 | , Andrew Sydenham Farrar ( 1886–1978 ) , classical scholar , was born 27 August 1886 at 100 Gower Street , London , the eldest of the three sons ( there were no daughters ) of the Revd Dr James Gow , who , after being a fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , was headmaster of Nottingham High School and later of Westminster School , and his wife Gertrude Sydenham Everett-Green . |
| 3 | He 's everything I wanted after being a gypsy for all those years in Europe . |
| 4 | The martel de fer was a type of mace used by both horse and foot soldiers , and was often carried by archers in preference to the sword . |
| 5 | What Lazarsfeld was after was a way of searching for patterns in data , patterns exhibited between variables , and patterns that , if confirmed regularly across studies , could stand as statements of empirical relationships between phenomena . |
| 6 | Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it ! |
| 7 | So anyway , we started talking about him , they 're doing a survey and er and suddenly it must of been a quarter of an hour later remember the the drinks , I have n't done any drinks ! |
| 8 | that , because it would of been a lot of effort on part |
| 9 | The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore . |
| 10 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 11 | This is a more selective version of Beveridge 's married woman 's option , which in effect entitled every woman by virtue of being a wife to a pension ( worth 60 per cent of the basic pension ) on the basis of her husband 's contributions record . |
| 12 | The game had all the hallmarks of being a classic with an array of current and former Irish internationals on show . |
| 13 | It is certain that justification is capable of being a defence to this tort , but what constitutes justification is incapable of exact definition . |
| 14 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 15 | Not for the experience of being a successful playwright ( he penned The Crucible among others ) , or for the trauma of being accused of being a communist in the ‘ Reds under the beds ’ witch-hunt of the 1950s . |
| 16 | ‘ . But if rule-following is a practice , which must be public only in the sense of being a way of behaving rather than in the sense of being regulated by a community , how are we to derive from that thought the conclusion that the solipsist 's private language is impossible ? |
| 17 | One of my several worries about going to Bristol was thy feeling of being a bit of a fraud . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 19 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 20 | I 'm by way of being a bit of an expert on the moor , you know . " |
| 21 | Model making Instead of being a showcase of new modelling talent and the supposed depth of the new models , ‘ London Girls ’ ( FACE 45 ) turns into an unbelievably petty and hateful attack on the supermodels themselves . |
| 22 | I thought about sang-sang-dang , or the state of being a rose-bush in early May . |
| 23 | But that is the hundred and eighty thousand that was shown in the budget deductions of being a contribution towards the guideline in the first year . |
| 24 | Eliot made clear that his Pageant Play made no pretence of being a contribution to the dramatic literature of England . |
| 25 | He accuses her of being a stooge of the EGP , the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ; he say she is a front for this ‘ hard-line rebel group ’ which is ‘ bent on achieving communist revolution by force of arms ’ . |
| 26 | Paul said that he did his work , with tears and with humility ; Jeremiah was humble too ; it 's part and parcel of being a servant of the Lord . |
| 27 | … the privilege which God has given me of being a servant of Christ Jesus … |
| 28 | For many mothers with learning difficulties , the experience of being a parent in our society is difficult , as the new publication Parents with Learning Disabilities shows . |
| 29 | 's capable of being a thorn in the flesh to the Coalition Government if they were not placated . |
| 30 | But he would deny her the simple comfort of being a presence in the apartment , she reflected savagely . |