Example sentences of "be [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 2 | The ministry , it declared , had been for over a generation " merely the faithful executor of the intentions " of Alexander I and Nicholas I , so that " its every action was carried out under the orders and instructions of the tsars themselves " . |
| 3 | cos I have n't been for about a month , three weeks . |
| 4 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 5 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 6 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 7 | Well every year erm we 're like at the moment a couple of light years away from it |
| 8 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 9 | For God 's sake you know what they 're like in the village . |
| 10 | Erm I du n no , the thing is our prom , yeah , is the day before so like I 'm gon na be pretty fucked erm two , a couple of my friends who are coming , they 've got they 're like in the middle of the ex their exams like erm I know my one friend 's driving there but he 's going from St John 's Wood , thanks , erm we might be able to pick you up , I 'm not sure , it depends what 's happening or you might go with Josh , like we 'll meet outside probably . |
| 11 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 12 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 13 | Because i if you 're from outside the village you would have no entitlement to land in the village at all would you ? |
| 14 | when when you 're in in the fucking station waiting for the old train you 're on the front of the fucking platform . |
| 15 | I 'll kill him , they do n't worry , they do n't worry about what , what bills you 've got going out , I E a car on H P or your or erm furniture on H P , when you 're on on the dole you 're you ai n't supposed to have had any bills incurred |
| 16 | I mean , they , they probably do n't speak English and they 're at at a disadvantage to start off with . |
| 17 | It just depends on where you 're at at the time . |
| 18 | So unit four talks about how to plan erm how to plan it which is where we 're at at the minute . |
| 19 | Yeah , past experience to find out the level they 're at at the moment . |
| 20 | Aeroplanes currently win the ‘ but my are n't they dangerous ? ’ tag because that is the stage we 're at in the great evolutionary game . |
| 21 | Erm , you know , you can find this , to actually need to work on where you 're at in the cycle and why you 're there , and what it means , to what you 're trying to do . |
| 22 | They 're by on the fireplace . |
| 23 | Imagine what it would have been like without the railway . |
| 24 | This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years . |
| 25 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 26 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 27 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 28 | ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’ |
| 29 | Protected by regiments of spearmen , High Elf archers are amongst of the most decisive troops in the army , unleashing deadly volleys of steel-fanged death upon their foes . |
| 30 | Protected by regiments of spearmen High Elf Archers are amongst of the most decisive troops in the army , unleashing deadly volleys of steel-fanged death upon their foes . |