Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too late in the day because all the hotels are full and I end up tramping round in the dark , lugging my pack and money ( cash , a great wad of hard currency ) , nervous of the hatchet-faced youths who watch me meandering round , concentrating so intently on making it look as though I know exactly where I 'm heading that I soon have no idea where I am on the mapless streets of Algiers . |
| 2 | And on the landward side of all the trenches ( except those between the Solomons and the New Hebrides , where they are on the seaward side ) are the island chains — Japan to New Zealand — whose birth is in whole or in part a consequence of all that colliding and jostling beneath the blue horizons . |
| 3 | Do not put fluffy rugs in front of open fires , where they are in the direct line of sparks . |
| 4 | told him that er seeing he 's on the sick he was n't allowed to go . |
| 5 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 6 | CHILDREN IN SEX CASES Save in exceptional circumstances where it is in the public interest to do so , newspapers should not , even where the law permits it , identify children as victims , witnesses or defendants involved in cases concerning sexual offences . |
| 7 | It wants to be among the top three software-systems integration houses in France by the end of 1994 , where it is among the top five today , Tordjman said . |
| 8 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 9 | Although she was in the front row and next to the window , leg room was cramped and there was no champagne on ice on the eight-hour flight . |
| 10 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 11 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 12 | ‘ So you were in the sick bay , and naturally Hilary came to see you . |
| 13 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 14 | Fly Delta from Gatwick to Cincinnati or Atlanta and once you 're through the convenient immigration and customs , you 'll be greeted by Delta Passenger Service Agents . |
| 15 | , once you 're in the clear you really it 's the silliest in the world to have a little actually . |
| 16 | He 's dead nice , Mr Fleming , just treats you like an adult ; see once you 're in the Sixth Year , you could say Anything to him . |
| 17 | Once you 're in the thieving habit … ‘ |
| 18 | Just start the program from 3DMenu or type in PHANTD once you 're in the PHANT directory . |
| 19 | Never bounce up and down once you are in the squatting position . |
| 20 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 21 | Once one is in the right frame of mind , it is a relatively easy exercise to play spot-the-sexism within curriculum materials ; indeed both teachers and pupils now use this serious game to highlight gender biases in their books and , rather than toss them out , make the best of distorted material to act as a starter for discussion . |
| 22 | ‘ What you observe there is that in the battleground seats , the seats where this election will be determined , Labour is doing even better than we are in the national , overall polls , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Erm , so we are at the lower end of the authority charges . |
| 25 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |
| 26 | ‘ So we 're on the second floor . ’ |
| 27 | I mean once we 're on the other side it does n't really matter |
| 28 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 29 | And I would rather be yours than anybody 's in the whole world ! |
| 30 | There are more differences between those groups than there are between the normal things that sociologists would look at ; for example , social class . |