Example sentences of "be [prep] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's been reported that they centre on fraud and sexual harassment at Redoaks . |
| 2 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's reported that they centre on fraud and sexual abuse at Redoaks . |
| 3 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 4 | It had been as if he came from another , alien world , beyond her experience or comprehension , a glamorous , glittering man who made her think of diamonds , so hard and sharp were the edges of his personality . |
| 5 | So once we 're through that we need to be able to say okay , if there is a significant shift in the mix of work , then we need to be able to quantify exactly what that is . |
| 6 | I would think they 're more trouble than they 're worth unless you 've got |
| 7 | Maybe that 's who they 're against or something . |
| 8 | I mean people like you , whoever you are , wherever you 're from and whatever you do . |
| 9 | So there again perhaps try and find somebody who 's from where they 've said they 're from and they might be ticking this box you know . |
| 10 | And so you 're , er , have actually , you 're at or whatever , erm , it would be nice to think , and I 'm not exactly sure , my geography 's not that good at that particular part , but you , you sort of tend to look at it , and say , right if he 's in and out , and it 's ten o'clock and somebody says they can see him at eleven , you know , and there 's this tendency , to say , well erm , O K. Yes ? |
| 11 | MESSIEST DESK : Viscount Weymouth 's was reminiscent of what the world must have been like before they invented waste-paper baskets . |
| 12 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 13 | She thought of the jokes they 'd shared , bundled up chastely in her bed , and she wondered what it would have been like if they had made love . |
| 14 | But Gustave used to write me letters describing what it would have been like if we had been married . |
| 15 | Neither does Poulantzas explain what the peasantry would have been like if it had not had this pertinent effect , except in so far as he stipulates that they would not then have been a class . |
| 16 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 17 | What would the album have been like if you had n't gone there ? |
| 18 | I suggest , then , that the alleged non-naturalness of good and bad consists in their being properties of things which follow from what the things are like but which do not contribute to things being like what they are like . |
| 19 | I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked ! |
| 20 | I felt I knew what addicts ' lives are like and what they think they 're getting from dope . |
| 21 | He 'd much more likely kick a drunken beggar , but that 's what most people are like and you can put up with it . |
| 22 | I do n't say that that 's because you know what the Greeks are like because I do n't know what the Greeks are like . |
| 23 | you know , because they do n't know what their right are with And you know , I think places like the law centre , which fight for the rights of people in , you know to develop that that kind of service for people . |
| 24 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 25 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 26 | I 've got two boxes at home , but I I mean its not brilliant , but they do the job for me could be worth cos he driving out there as well , would n't mind start get the old ferry ticket 's tomorrow and piss off over there , straight through France , |
| 27 | a terrible ‘ Ow ’ — or totally good — a beautiful ‘ Mm ’ — and when distress is relieved it may well be as if they themselves have conjured up the goodness . |
| 28 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 29 | It would be as if he had never been taken in treason . |
| 30 | She knew she would open it , but when she did it would be as if he were with her all over again , and she would suffer so … |