Example sentences of "of [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |