Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the commitment the application and operating system developers are showing , DOS is going to be around for some time yet . |
| 2 | Well before Cordoba made his debut over today 's course two months ago , his name was being whispered behind many a well-respected hand as the one to be on for next year 's 2000 Guineas . |
| 3 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 4 | because that 's only supposed to be up to this week three more weeks in April what she doing ? |
| 5 | ‘ We expected all the equipment to be up to Olympic standard . |
| 6 | ‘ All I know is that we ought to be up in that tower , plannin' how we get back to our own lines , and not wastin' any more time quarrellin' down ‘ ere . ’ |
| 7 | By 1916 it had become obvious that the war was not likely to be over for some time and the government round that it was necessary to introduce military conscription in place of voluntary conscription , in order to ensure replacement of the thousands of soldiers being killed and wounded on the battlefields . |
| 8 | It was not unknown for Herbie Connors to be about at this time , and Yanto had done enough running for one night . |
| 9 | Staff Nurse Target needed to be back for visiting hour , as there were always some visitors asking questions . |
| 10 | But they 're likely to be back at any time . |
| 11 | I 'd like to be back in that time again … |
| 12 | The decks must be clear , hatches fastened , Stripey out of sight , and above all the girls ought to be back in regular education . |
| 13 | The restored thirty-seater coach is expected to be back in public service for the bank holiday and will be made available for private party hire . |
| 14 | AFTER a two-and-a-half-year lull I fully expect my great friendship with Graham Gooch to be back in full swing on the tour to India . |
| 15 | At the half-year stage profits are expected to be down on last year — around £35m against £39m . |
| 16 | I , I have n't actually got to be in at any time except I did say I 'd be in at half nine . |
| 17 | . Answers on a Christmas card , to and the Christmas cards please , with your answers , to be in by first post , next Friday , the seventeenth . |
| 18 | In other instances medical intervention via naso-gastric feeding may be necessary to aid the child gain weight sufficiently to be out of immediate danger ( Goldbloom 1984 ) . |
| 19 | The ring or the spade-end would need to be out of all proportion to the size of the hook . |
| 20 | Even so , the ruin of his career and the disgrace of imprisonment seem , to most people , to be out of all proportion to the crime . |
| 21 | I 'm real glad to be out of that place . |
| 22 | For he was aware of the violent frustration of her unused sensuality , aware too of her longing to be out of that place , that role , that trap of a life . |
| 23 | And she was so relieved to be out of that place that she ran after and even overtook him . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Dysart paid over the odds for charring , and my Wilfrid thought I was mad to give it up , but I was glad to go , believe you me , glad to be out of that house for good and all . |
| 25 | They can hardly bear to be out of physical contact with the machine and when they are they carry their printouts around with them . |
| 26 | He wanted nothing so much at the moment as to be out of this man 's piercing sight and withering scrutiny . |
| 27 | There 'd appear to be out of this office . |
| 28 | He wanted to be out of this place , this vale , this county , this country , these clothes , these accents , this whole binding suffocating poisonous England … |
| 29 | She was said last night to be out of intensive care and making progress . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a fantastic feeling to be out on that field for the last 10 or 15 minutes , ’ he recalled . |