Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just like to raise a point that erm most men are psychiat , er mo most of the psychiatrists are men and that a lot of the diagnosis I feel , come from a very sort of patriarchal view erm , you know a lot of have sort of brought up the alternative sort of er medicine and er self-help groups , and to me , having been through psychiatry which is a , a huge machine that is very difficult to get out that er to me , that 's the only future and there 's millions of pounds going into psychiatry and we 're reviewing it now with community care plans which , I I do n't think anybody is actually clear about but er , you know , the the millions that are put into psychiatry , I 'd like to see more sort of counselling er , become available or , more money given to sort of er mental health associations . |
| 2 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 3 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 4 | ESL has been a particularly dynamic area of language teaching and one area of provision has always been for students who wish to continue their general education in this country or to take up training opportunities in MSC-funded schemes . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for Desmond she would never have got through them . |
| 6 | The true reason was that I want nothing to do with that country while it remains as it is , and if it had n't been for Jean-Paul I 'd have ceased all our operations out there years ago . ’ |
| 7 | If it had n't been for Kurt I would have done . |
| 8 | After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’ |
| 9 | Both the enlarged access facility and the supplementary financing facility are available to members of the IMF only in conjunction with the use of resources in the upper credit tranches ( i.e. they are special arrangements when normal credit lines are insufficient ) and are for countries which are facing serious payments imbalances that are large in relation to their quotas . |
| 10 | If married persons sterilized for non-contraceptive reasons are included , the proportion of the subfecund rises to 25 per cent ( most non-contraceptive sterilizations are for conditions which would themselves cause sterility : McFalls and McFalls 1984 ) . |
| 11 | In England registry office weddings are for girls who have got themselves into trouble . |
| 12 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 13 | Yearnings are as individual as yearners themselves , but nearly all are for foods which are high in sugar , salt or fat . |
| 14 | The link between these operas is that they are about men who had changed the world through the power of ideas . |
| 15 | Yes I 'm I 'm not quite sure the regulations are about subsids We , I mean we , it 's only quite recently that we have had a subsidiary , erm , last two or three years , we 've , for many years we did n't have one . |
| 16 | And if p is false then no matter how sure I am of p I do not know it . |
| 17 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 18 | It had been of course her suggestion that Mark 's pastoral visit should be no longer delayed . |
| 19 | Just er it might of been of course I had plants through there it might have been |
| 20 | All of these last examples are of course one sided and do not benefit the host , but the association between cleaner shrimps and plankton filter-feeding sea cucumbers is one step further removed and borders on parasitism . |
| 21 | As for rigs other than the hair for boilie fishing there are of course plenty of alternatives . |
| 22 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 23 | Most of the sales are of equipment which is then capitalised within the accounts of the group undertakings . |
| 24 | However , if cancers are of interest it is more appropriate to obtain data from regional cancer registries ; these data are morbidity rather than mortality data and are therefore more valuable . |
| 25 | Thus in a letter to his father of 3 June 1913 , all the names are of people who figure in Mrs Lowndes 's memoirs : |
| 26 | Although his initial performances have been below par it has by no means been the worst start to a Test career by a recognised English batman . |
| 27 | When we 're off tour I play those a lot . |
| 28 | That does n't there 's when you 're off duty it 's great but when you 're on duty it 's different . |
| 29 | Oh of course they 're of course they are a great success . |
| 30 | And that 's bad news , I mean , and I 'm sure you 'd feel that way yourselves in many I think basically no one welcomes the interfering busybody , as you may be looked upon , but then strangely , and again this is where the ambivalence comes in , when it suits us , you 're of course our knights in shining armour . |