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 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |
| 8 | Spike also said " We are of course quite near the coast " . |
| 9 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 10 | This challenges the assumption that such programmes are of interest only to a specialist few : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Physical maturation is a critical factor in the attainment of continence although emotional factors are of importance particularly in secondary enuresis . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're for choice right across the board . |
| 17 | On Saturday , they 're at home again to Portsmouth . |
| 18 | I said to Julie about the washing I said to Julie I said you 're at home how about you taking this washing machine with you when you go because you 're paying . |
| 19 | Why , the two of you are like recluses out of some dated European movie . ’ |
| 20 | A hundred and ninety jobs in the health service are under threat tonight from a management shake-up . |
| 21 | Are the homes that are under threat though at the moment ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I am in fact not from retail training . |
| 25 | Mr. Peter Walker : I am in touch regularly with the chairman and deputy chairman to discuss issues of mutual interest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 've been in London now for two months . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | He had been in court before on charges of violence but never for anything like murder . |
| 30 | 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 . |