Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His fantasy would more probably have been of Robyn as the first female , naked centre-forward for Birmingham City .
2 They 're in Blackpool for the Labour Party Conference , determined to put their case onto the agenda .
3 The streets of Prague are like London in the early Sixties , an idea sustained by the old-fashioned local cars — the ubiquitous rear-engined Skodas and the chauffeur-driven Tatras .
4 He had been with Liddie through the various pre-natal classes , lying on the floor with her and learning the breathing exercises .
5 Herrmann , a Wharton MBA who has been with Solbourne for the better part of a year , has a components background , having previously run Amphenol in Hong Kong .
6 Jack Handy had been with McKinsey in the 1930s before setting up his own management consultancy and ‘ executive recruitment ’ business as early as 1944 .
7 He 's been with Hitler since the street-fighting days , he was in the famous putsch in twenty-three .
8 All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months .
9 ‘ From what he says , he has been in Amsterdam for the last six weeks , and rarely went far from the airport .
10 The breed has been in Britain since the eleventh century , when by William of Orange reputedly owner the first .
11 ‘ You can win money but you can not eat , ’ said a member of the Ukrainian-Russian squad who have been in England for the past fortnight .
12 The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine .
13 The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original .
14 The next was a city man , a former civil service clerk who 'd been in FAKOUM from the early days .
15 ‘ I 've been in Australia for the entire time .
16 Well , here we are in Leicester at the final resting place of the White Boar himself .
17 To help visitors who are in Zurich for the first time , the tourist office has worked out four planned itineraries .
18 Some of the country 's best shots are in Herefordshire for the British Open Sporting Championship .
19 And I would be always be with John in the stable and I got until I got into er some danger walking er underneath a horses legs and he 'd he 'd send me out banned me from the stable and shut the door .
20 The youths are likely to be in Scotland at the same time as the New Zealand national side and Auckland provincial side .
21 ‘ They just all happened to be in Washington at the same time .
22 Both will be in Britain within the next 14 months , and the firm is planning further UK launches , including a smaller sports-utility vehicle .
23 As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote .
24 Have you any means of finding out whether any T. and T. line ships are likely to be in Bilbao over the next few days ? "
25 Kingswood used to be in Gloucestershire before the last boundary changes in 1974 .
26 Around 30 writers will be in Derry during the five days and will be involved in a series of readings , workshops and discussions .
27 For credit managers , most of the Infocheck services are already available , Jordans ' will be on Prestel in the near future and Prestel also has the ability , not currently carried by Telecom Gold , to interrogate the BT Directory Enquiry phone- base .
28 IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships .
29 Their games will be at Jordanstown for the first two days , with games being shared between Jordanstown and Valley on the final day .
30 ‘ It is part of the expectation of the President that I should be available to represent the Church , so I have been to Strasbourg to the European Parliament and also on visits to the churches in Nigeria and Kenya .
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