Example sentences of "be [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for ! |
| 2 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 3 | Surely all three are for us among the great achievements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ? |
| 4 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 5 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 6 | It can be carried out at any time when you feel the need , for example , when you are near anybody with a cold or ‘ flu ; when you are experiencing any form of fear ; when others are indulging in negative emotions ; in noisy surroundings ; first thing in the morning and last thing at night ; after meditating or giving intuitive aromatherapy massage . |
| 7 | The plot centres around an aristocratic sportsman who in turn becomes the subject of a manhunt : he is alone against the world , but we are with him through every breathless paragraph . |
| 8 | Many who are with him on a daily basis support him because he is their only hope . |
| 9 | After more than 20 years of Medau teaching in Edinburgh , Muriel Jessop is taking the step of handing over her class — much to the sadness of her class members , some of whom have been with her for a larger number of those years . |
| 10 | I think that had you not been with me on the black nights I would have died . |
| 11 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 12 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 13 | They had climbed all over him in Tatton Park , looked at Granada TV studio sets with him , been with him to the Industrial and Air Museums . |
| 14 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 15 | Whitaker had been with him from the very start , a solid , dependable man who knew his own limitations . |
| 16 | During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) . |
| 17 | In a postscript Dr. Yeats reported that he had subsequently seen both Dr. Thackeray and Mr. Leech who had been together since he had been with them on the previous day . |
| 18 | I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months . |
| 19 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |
| 20 | Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time . |
| 21 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 22 | Well we all know from our own history books that fire has been with us for a long long time has n't it ? |
| 23 | When Shanti had been with us for a few days , a friend said to me , ‘ I saw Michael out with the baby in the pram , and I do n't think I 've seen a man look happier in my life . ’ |
| 24 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 25 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 26 | I suspect that tensions concerning rights , freedoms and responsibilities have been with us since the earliest days of humanity . |
| 27 | CFCs — the main problem — have been with us since the 1930s , a valued invention because they are non-toxic , non-flammable and cheaper to make than any known substitute . |
| 28 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 29 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 30 | It is considered more conventional for girls to take arts subjects than sciences ; as convergers tend to be more conventional in outlook , girls are in something of a double bind — they have to decide whether to follow their inclinations or to make a ‘ conventional ’ choice . |