Example sentences of "be [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will there be too many conflicts ? ( c ) Will plaintiff personal injury work preclude other types of work you are or wish to be engaged in , such as corporate and commercial business ? |
| 2 | But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects . |
| 3 | And the fact that I say that a lot of these accidents happen because perhaps you 're not paying the attention , very often I 've been or know of situations where the bloke is really paying attention to what he 's doing and the still the unfortunate occurs . |
| 4 | On the very narrowest level , it seemed to him , Rudolf Hess must be a gold mine of strategic information , although the experts at SIS had said his position in the Nazi hierarchy was not perhaps all it had been or appeared to be . |
| 5 | I just do n't know where the towns are that go with them . |
| 6 | The LOS was identified by a sustained resting pressure are that relaxed with swallowing ; it was measured in centimeters from the nose . |
| 7 | ‘ But I do n't think people in business are that open to contacting a firm they do n't know for a health check . ’ |
| 8 | The most important Romanesque churches of this type in the city of Cologne are that dedicated to the twelve apostles ( S. Aposteln 328 , 330 ) , S. Maria im Capitol , the earliest of the group , constructed on the foundation walls of the Roman Capitoline Trias , S. Martin ( Gross S. Martin ) , S. Gereon ( 329 ) and S. Pantaleon . |
| 9 | The principal cemetery area , however , appears to have been that discovered during turnpike road construction in 1739 to the south and south-west . |
| 10 | The legal arrangements for unification were contained in a second state treaty ( the first state treaty having been that providing for economic and monetary union — see pp. 37466-67 ) . |
| 11 | In December 1923 , the key decision had been that made by Baldwin not to resign immediately . |
| 12 | It follows , then , that an evolutionary argument must attempt to establish exactly what the continuity may have been that led from the level of the higher animals to that of Man . |
| 13 | Under such an arrangement the electoral system in East Germany would have been that used in March for the elections to the Volkskammer ( East German unicameral parliament — see pp. 37300-02 ) . |
| 14 | One of the most influential categorisations of social class , other than those of the OPCS , has been that used by the Oxford Social Mobility Study . |
| 15 | If you 're that spare about the images you choose to show of a city , you can create a feeling of an entire world just seen through very limited vision . |
| 16 | you know , and they 're and sat on sinks and whatever else , so you know , you could , you could get twenty guys on that urinal that you can get for seven . |
| 17 | He sounded as enthusiastic as I might have been if talking about paving stones in Manchester . |
| 18 | They 'd been and looked at a few and there , |
| 19 | The school he 'd wanted me to go to so that I could be as clever as he had once been and go to Oxford the way he 'd done and not waste it as he had been foolish enough to do . |
| 20 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 21 | ‘ Here , mister , would you like to see what you 've been and done to me ? ’ |
| 22 | The Tree Collection , as purchased in 1972 from Tree 's last surviving daughter , the late Lady Cory-Wright , has been and remains of incalculable value to biographers and researchers into Tree 's production and turn-of-the-century staging in general . |
| 23 | We 've been back to some of the places in the film to see what changes there 've been and to talk to some of the people who were in the original film . |
| 24 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 25 | The fact that evaluation has been and continues to be a matter of concern probably reflects the uncertainty amongst librarians of user education methodologies . |
| 26 | It is not therefore surprising that Barth 's work has been and continues to be controversial . |
| 27 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 28 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 29 | When he finally left the bikes , he ambled down to the stream just where we had been and sat in the water to cool off . |
| 30 | A Midland spokesman said : ‘ The assets of the trust have been and continue to be under the control of the trustee whose objective remains that of insuring that the interests of the investors are protected . ’ |