Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 2 | Aggers ' biggest worry was that he might make a fool of himself bowling at Gooch after being out of the game for two years . |
| 3 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 4 | Seemed a bit daft to me though you 'd think they , mind you they 'd , they 'd supposed to of had erm er sub contractors down there , in that , that is disgusting , some of these should of been out of the door the . |
| 5 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 6 | ‘ At least you have the advantage of being here on the spot to sweet-talk him . |
| 7 | She could tell by the angle of the light that it would soon be sunset , and the prospect of being here in the dark appalled her . |
| 8 | One danger of taking the downward spiral of self-imposed isolation is agoraphobia , the fear of being away from the security of the home . |
| 9 | The difference from six months before was that The O'Neils were near the end of the first half instead of being just after the opening . |
| 10 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 11 | ‘ We believed in the wisdom of being there at the beginning when customers most need financial advice , and we still do , ’ says Mr Foulds . |
| 12 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 13 | Its main problem is that it can cause psychological dissociation , resulting in hallucinations and phenomena which may include subjective experiences of being out of the body or states similar to the near death experience . |
| 14 | Back in the warm , silken night air , beneath the massive arc of bright stars , she breathed in greedily , revelling in the blessed contrast , the giddy relief of being out of the cave . |
| 15 | It was all question of being out on the track at the right moment close to the end of the session when it was drying . |
| 16 | The nip of alcohol causes the blood vessels to dilate and so warm the skin and make us comfortable in spite of being out in the cold . |
| 17 | I mean even I understand you were talking about the children sort of being out in the dark on their own erm even just something as simple as that . |
| 18 | She had had enough of being out among the crowd , enough excitement . |
| 19 | A perverse testimony to the feeling that most Romanians had of being constantly under the scrutiny of an all-embracing network of human and electronic observers were published by an official Romanian journal in the summer of 1988 . |
| 20 | This in turn causes far more crack-ups than the usual pressures of being constantly in the public eye , a symptom that has now been identified as charity-fatigue . |
| 21 | Only at the end did his voice thicken : otherwise brimming self-confidence , he overcame lack of sleep , the exhaustion that comes from travelling 8,000 miles in 21 days , and the pressure of being constantly in the spotlight . |
| 22 | He obtained his freedom in 1610 , and thereafter built a successful business as printer and publisher , despite being frequently at the centre of political and religious controversy and at odds with the more established members of his company . |
| 23 | Let it be noted that J , head of was actually in the room at the time of this meeting . |
| 24 | Among the dozens of glues now available the arguments for and against are mostly on the grounds of ease of application , durability and cost . |
| 25 | It 's just like being back in the dorm . ) |
| 26 | This suggests that make expresses antecedent causation , since it evokes a process of causation giving rise to a state of affairs that comes into being only at the end of the process . |
| 27 | Finally , our most recent results have shown that ( 1 ) the differential perspective cues described here also affect the perceived absolute distance to the surface ( such that a surface containing perspective cues appropriate for near viewing is perceived to be closer to the observer ) , and ( 2 ) the shape of the apparent fronto-parallel surface systematically varies with the differential vertical perspective cues generated by surfaces at different absolute distances from the observer , as Helmholtz informally demonstrated over a hundred years ago . |
| 28 | The latter would seem to be closer to the truth . |
| 29 | Taking alone the synoptic gospels , for they are likely to be closer to the words of Jesus , the facts are as follows . |
| 30 | I have moved the patient in there to be closer to the turret , the better for me to nurse her . |