Example sentences of "be [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has been through fur twenty-four hours and the telephone to Chilete , the last village before the summit , is out of action . |
| 2 | It reminded me how quiet my rocky tooth had been for at least a week or two now … |
| 3 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 4 | The ministry , it declared , had been for over a generation " merely the faithful executor of the intentions " of Alexander I and Nicholas I , so that " its every action was carried out under the orders and instructions of the tsars themselves " . |
| 5 | cos I have n't been for about a month , three weeks . |
| 6 | Such stones , I am told , are worth between two hundred and fifty dollars and three hundred dollars a carat . |
| 7 | As Anthony Alexander , the group 's chief operating officer in Britain , put it , ‘ If we think we can get more for them than they are worth to us , we will sell . ’ |
| 8 | Kroll estimates that shareholdings controlled by Mr Hussein are worth at least $1 billion : not bad for one man 's retirement savings . |
| 9 | About 400 were broken — but John said : ‘ The survivors are worth at least £100 each and the two demo tapes a few thousand . ’ |
| 10 | But they are my bread and butter , and I rather hope they are worth at least a quick read . |
| 11 | This latter point is particularly important since the further into the future the benefits of projects are deferred the less they are worth in today 's values . |
| 12 | Higher education students have the lion 's share of the access funds , which are worth in total nearly £26 million this year . |
| 13 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 14 | By its nature , it is a long term investment and some of the dispensers may remain where they are for at least a year . |
| 15 | But they they are for for teachers under the age of sixty . |
| 16 | Lot of the calls we get are for like Jackie or Coldwell , they 're not based here |
| 17 | there are between between genders . |
| 18 | Yes Chairer er I think Vince 's report is a very fair summary of the er the the issues which face us erm truth is , is what we 've been as in this proposed consortium which no doubt will go through with it 's most of the reforms of the N H S despite the er consultation mechanism which they 've gone through you know , but largely these are beforehand given the unaccountable of the N H S management ! |
| 19 | The Rock and Ice imprint must have been worth at least a grade . |
| 20 | Lehmann must have been worth at least two billion yuan . |
| 21 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 22 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 23 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 24 | Well they 're about to , five in a , in a big wrapper that 's why they 're lose . |
| 25 | I heard somebody they 're behind over there in Australia |
| 26 | Sergeant , first thing in the morning , you exercise your limbs round at Connon 's and see what you 're like at climbing trees . |
| 27 | Well every year erm we 're like at the moment a couple of light years away from it |
| 28 | We encourage people to play with the cosmetics , feel what they 're like on their skin , and we do n't try to sell them anything . |
| 29 | ‘ We encourage people to play with the cosmetics , feel what they 're like on their skin , and we do n't try to sell them anything ’ |
| 30 | But they wo n't share , you know what they 're like in my team it 's , it 's |