Example sentences of "be [adj] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The stimulatory activity was found to be stable up to 60°C for 10 minutes . |
2 | I bet if Bedge 's hair was straight you know , it 'd be right down to here somewhere . |
3 | Why do n't they have it right down there at that end where there 's no smoking and the little children would be right out of the way . |
4 | ‘ I 'll be overdrawn up to my eyeballs … ’ |
5 | Doors will open 30 minutes before the advertised programme time and admission will only be possible up to 10 minutes before the programme . |
6 | Psychiatric they have erm not been there were proposals originally from the Conservative group to discontinue that service , but as part of the erm negotiations that took place that was withdrawn , but there is a , I think , a ten thousand pound efficiency cut to be made in the P S W service , so it is not being cut , but erm the sum is being reduced , and it will be self-financing out of efficiency measures . |
7 | There is one : Epsom Downs may be high up with plenty of air movement , but there is only a thin soil cover on solid chalk . |
8 | Why else should so many be high out of sight of the congregation , only sharply visible to us when using a telephoto lens ? |
9 | There is a certain elegance in having a state-of-the-art , pressurised hot water tank feeding a big round shower head that could be straight out of the Savoy . |
10 | As the car swings off the road into the technology park , the ducks rise from the man-made lake in the middle , while the surrounding buildings could be straight out of Silicon Valley , or a quieter version of the Thames Valley . |
11 | Do n't look so shocked , Claudia — he 'd never marry you ; you would n't fit in with his lifestyle and he 'd be bored out of his mind in a month . ’ |
12 | With the FTSE staging a modest recovery to be 6.5 down at 3032.1 having been 16.5 off immediately dealing began , City analysts believe the 100-index will fall to the 3000 level if the weakness on the New York stock market continues . |
13 | Donations will still be welcome up to 5th January . |
14 | As a result they may always be hard up without needing to be . |
15 | The FTSE , which moved ahead almost five points in early dealing , fell sharply soon afterwards to be 7.9 down at 3051.1 after the end of the first hour 's trading . |
16 | It was published by Stanley Paul , but it must be long out of print . |
17 | Meredith-Lee was a bit of a lefty — the sort of chap who would be all on for worker participation and that kind of rot . |
18 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
19 | If the manner of victory was nothing new , ushered by irresistible fast bowling from Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh on a degenerating strip , much of the preamble was a welcome refresher course in what cricket , and its intrinsic art , used to be all about in these parts . |
20 | Chasing a massive 287 for six , which included a powerful 122 off only 113 balls from Phil Simmons , South Africa succumbed to some accurate bowling to be all out for 180 in the 43rd over to give West Indies victory by 107 runs . |
21 | RAY WILKINS knows old club Manchester United will be all out for revenge today after Queens Park Rangers effectively cost them the title last year . |
22 | Despite an impressive display by the Flower brothers , Zimbabwe lost their last seven first-innings wickets for 47 runs to be all out for 322 . |
23 | And they 'd be all down in the cellar do you see . |
24 | Secretly Margaret thought he 'd be better out of the racing business . |
25 | If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed . |
26 | in actual fact , because they thought she 'd be better out of the way , had the baby last night ? |
27 | So you 're saying the chances of getting four aces , provided you put it back each time and shuffled them again , would be sixteen out of fifty two . |
28 | gon na be black down to there ? |
29 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
30 | It was not going to be safe out on the streets . |