Example sentences of "be [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to give an undertaking that he will consider this matter very fully and in consultation with the Home Secretary between now and the report stage and secondly , that his consultation will extend across Your Lordships House , because I do think that in the light of the discussion which we have already h had there is a consensus emerging among Your Lordships which had will be worth my Noble friend following up . |
| 2 | Yet vestigial gestures towards value persist , usually at the end of an exposition , where the critic in a final flourish claims , or at least hopes , that something valuable has emerged from the analysis ; a revelation of the quality of the author 's imagination ; or of the inevitable tendency of all texts to be about their own processes of composition , or to come apart in the reader 's hand ; or of the aesthetic fascination of the patterns of imagery that have been revealed ; or , at the very least , and least interestingly , that something ‘ interesting ’ will have been said . |
| 3 | Even with overtime £3 15s to £4 would be about their maximum weekly pay . |
| 4 | Generally , they were the cast-offs of two children in the house who happened to be about her own age , and this could mean a pretty frock coming her way , but only if , Mrs Aggie said , she kept her nose clean . |
| 5 | He thought the guy would be about his own age , certainly not more than mid-thirties . |
| 6 | It may be during your first week at work when a colleague asks you to join him or her in a group activity , such as a drink after work with friends . |
| 7 | During the week , she lives in her Chelsea flat , but come the weekend she joins the ‘ down-from-town ’ M3 pilgrimage to Lymington to be aboard her beloved Q2 . |
| 8 | — come on , I must be off my tiny thorax — |
| 9 | they all sit there looking at her and saying bloody hell she ai n't got her own hat on , we 've been here quarter of an hour and she walks in the door , takes her coat off and says come on ladies you 're suppose to be off your hind by two o'clock , leaving here at two |
| 10 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 11 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 12 | The best she could hope for now was that they could form some sort of working relationship , even though every minute they spent together would be for her sweet agony . |
| 13 | A writer should suffer and all that — it would be for her own good in the long run . |
| 14 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm tired of being manoeuvred into painful and irritating situations that are supposed to be for my own good . |
| 16 | I 'm subbing Neil but that 's out of money which he gives me and which really in theory ought to be for my own , own use you know for fun but I get housing benefit for him , from the council . |
| 17 | So what I 'm suggesting is that A is in fact your address and telephone section , B should be for your goals , and strategic plans , C , D , E , and F , er , would be for your specific functional areas . |
| 18 | If you are caring for an elderly parent who is at some stage of grieving for a lost partner , whether she is experiencing the shattering despair that follows soon after bereavement , or the long sad loneliness and feeling of deprivation characteristic of its later stages , her deepest need will be for your practical and emotional support during her period of sorrow and adjustment . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 20 | ‘ Well ’ — he pursed his lips — ‘ I sometimes think you should be for your own good . |
| 21 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
| 22 | Officials said yesterday that Robert Lock , 29 , from Cambridge , had been on remand after a court hearing last week when police detected the heroin , believed to be for his own use . |
| 23 | It may be through their particular knowledge , abilities , experience , or contacts — or all of these . |
| 24 | It might be expected that the main means by which teachers would become acquainted with the concept of SSE would be through their own LEA scheme . |
| 25 | Roger : Their main route will be through our local offices , particularly through Jobplan Workshops . |
| 26 | But if the average level of prices is above the level generally expected , P , then , as we have shown , the quantity of output will be above its natural level , whereas if the general level of prices is below the level expected , then aggregate output will be below its natural level . |
| 27 | HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant . |
| 28 | The memory for the Second Division club will be of their historic 10-9 triumph over West Hartlepool last year , a victory secured with a last- minute try that ensured their promotion from the Courage League Division Three alongside their immediate rivals . |
| 29 | It must be of their inward mental and subtle structure . |
| 30 | They frequently have to deal with awkward and unpleasant problems which may or may not be of their own making . |