Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 2 | We ourselves are to some extent part of this problem , but we do at least live and work in the village full time . |
| 3 | I said , ‘ I 'm at One fifth Avenue , that 's Spring 7–7000 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm on this milk shake diet , and it 's really working . |
| 5 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 6 | Mhm I 'm in three squeak societies , four squeak societies . |
| 7 | I do n't feel I 'm in any sense vaudevillian or melodramatic . ’ |
| 8 | Put I 'm in full time education tick it pay for it she said er what you on then ? |
| 9 | Suddenly I was on first names terms . |
| 10 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 11 | My boyfriend knew nothing of these habits and the first move was to tell him , which relieved me incredibly ( actually to admit to someone how unhappy I was with these eating habits ) . |
| 12 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 13 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 14 | ‘ He was absolutely weighed down with medals , ’ he recalls , ‘ and by that stage , with so many royal people there , I was in automatic bowing mode . |
| 15 | ‘ I was in that telephone kiosk within a minute of the shunt . ’ |
| 16 | I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " |
| 17 | I dyed my hair every colour under the sun , and I was in this all-women band , we wore lots and lots of make-up and these really baggy dresses in wild colours , which covered our whole bodies — we all dressed the same . |
| 18 | When I woke up I was in some back alley . |
| 19 | It is significant that under imitation forms , he states that ‘ the above , i.e. Nos. 170 — 178 , are dated by the Sigillata forms they imitate , which are of first century type . |
| 20 | I suspect there may well be areas in Greater York for example which are of high landscape value . |
| 21 | The hope of everyone campaigning for the survival of the 130-year-old warship builder is that work will be allowed to continue on three frigates which are at various construction stages . |
| 22 | I argued that the representational theory of mind , with its assumption that thinking is the possession of determinate ‘ mental states ’ which are in some sense encodings ( pictorial , syntactic ) of actual or possible states of affairs , contributes to the difficulty of the mind-body problem . |
| 23 | Not only was he going to be absolutely furious about her being in this police station , but she dreaded having to tell her cousin about it too . |
| 24 | Hooks were tied onto substitute gut and we used ’ Lincoln ’ brand silk lines which were on 25 yard cards . |
| 25 | Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type . |
| 26 | And paragraph twelve , erm towards the the middle , erm you can see the sentence in paragraph twelve To my mind , these sites , which were in that top corner lie well beyond the present I 'm so sorry . |
| 27 | 2 In psychology , generalisation refers to the process that occurs when one stimulus , which is to some degree equivalent to another , can substitute for the other in arousing a conditioned response ( behaviourist psychology ) . |
| 28 | The Engineering Council also operates the Technology Enhancement Programme which is for 14–19 year olds and aims to increase capability in technology , mathematics and science , developing skills that are matched to the needs of industry . |
| 29 | THE Scottish Pig Industry Initiative , which is behind Scottish Quality pork , is looking for pigperson of the year . |
| 30 | The capitals are Corinthian except for one which is in Romanesque animal form . |