Example sentences of "be [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 2 | , Thomas ( d. c. 1276 ) , revolutionary mayor of London 1263–5 , was a draper with considerable property in the city , whose family had been part of its aldermanic ruling class since at least the 1220s . |
| 3 | It would have been part of their worship and prayers to say with confidence , ‘ Glory belongs to God ’ . |
| 4 | In many other trades , crafts and professions , vocational qualifications have been part of their prosperous development and I therefore commend to you that we be attentive . |
| 5 | And two women pictured chatting at a cottage door ‘ Miss Jewitt and Miss Carter , Mickley 1921 , ’ as Louisa 's typically matter-of-fact caption notes sport fanciful bonnets that ca n't have been part of their everyday dress . |
| 6 | Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people . |
| 7 | The only evening dress she had brought with her was the colour of well-polished copper , which added a little colour to her pale complexion , but it was not going to be warm enough and so she took the mink that had been part of her trousseau from the wardrobe and slung it around her shoulders . |
| 8 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 9 | Fully awake now , Polly lay absolutely still , her mind racing as she tried to work out what was real and what had been part of her dream . |
| 10 | That had certainly been part of her reason for slipping away . |
| 11 | Been part of my mental baggage for many a year . ’ |
| 12 | When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh . |
| 13 | As we did so he explained he had taken the day off , instead of next Sunday , which would have been part of his free week-end . |
| 14 | This may , however , have simply been part of his lifelong preoccupation with correct dress : one friend remarked that his clothes were English , his underclothes American . " |
| 15 | I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years . |
| 16 | The confrontation between President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and opposition forces , including those who had once been part of his regime as fellow nationalists , continued throughout October . |
| 17 | You can at least see or hear , which has been part of your ordinary physical development . |
| 18 | well please do n't rely on imagination would it of been part of your duty to ensure it was updated in September nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 19 | ‘ Can you imagine what it must be like to lose someone who 's been part of your life for so long ? ’ |
| 20 | But one facet of the Wild West which has never been part of our social scene is surfacing now in cinematographic form . |
| 21 | " He was convinced " , wrote Tupper , " that the German man-in-the-street was participating in this senseless and savage struggle because the Prussian system forced him to ; the ordinary subject of the Kaiser might be misled into believing his cause just — but he could not conceive it possible that the German sailormen who had been part of our Merchant Service could have anything but hatred for this catastrophe " . |
| 22 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 23 | This requirement may have been part of our own history too . |
| 24 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 25 | If she 'd fought the rape there 'd have been skin from her attacker under the fingernails . |
| 26 | It is maintained , accordingly , that an ontological existent can be fully described and distinguished from any other similar existent in terms of its properties alone , and that its " relational " no less than any of its other properties are part of its essential description . |
| 27 | Although they are characters they can not move or fight on their own , because they are part of their Mob . |
| 28 | Both the problems which individuals fix upon , and the methods they employ to solve them , are part of their theoretical heritage , so to speak , enshrined in the practices of which they are the supports . |
| 29 | The evidence shows that these incidents reported in the media are merely the tip of the iceberg ; for many black people in Britain , physical assault or violent verbal expressions of racial hatred are part of their daily life . |
| 30 | Sometimes the word that they use , no only terms of endearment , er but other words , er special words to them , you know , are part of their own language of love . |