Example sentences of "[vb base] be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funds they receive are for specific services — hence the term ‘ fund accounting ’ . |
| 2 | Most of the photographs I receive are of unsaleable objects , with a smattering from the lunatic fringe such as the lady from Virginia who wanted to sell the handcuffs used to detain Charles Manson when he was first arrested . |
| 3 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 4 | Many courts rubber stamp them and those children who like being in secure units may not press to leave . |
| 5 | You hate being on social benefits . |
| 6 | A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations . |
| 7 | We 've been through three names already . |
| 8 | Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell . |
| 9 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 10 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 11 | I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks . |
| 12 | Remember we keep talking about tourism as being fashionable , it 's fashionable to say you 've been to certain destinations . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 14 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 15 | Yeah bear i I mean both of us sitting here , we 've been to social functions on this areas |
| 16 | So ghastly , that arrogance , that insensitivity of boys who 've been to public schools . |
| 17 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 18 | Saying you 've been to those destinations in the U K does n't actually hold the same appeal or esteem . |
| 19 | Now we 've been to these meetings , and there 's a lot of airy-fairy words about yes we support parishes . |
| 20 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 21 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 23 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 24 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 25 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 26 | I 've been in worse scrapes than this . |
| 27 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 28 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 29 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 30 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |