Example sentences of "be [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 2 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 3 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 4 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 5 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 6 | Erm Works , Q S , Business Manager , B E S have been through the same process as you 're going through today . |
| 7 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for the long hair and the high heels , we 'd have thought we had a squaddie on our hands . |
| 9 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 10 | It might even have been handsome had it not been for the dark scowl that currently shadowed it . |
| 11 | My own preference has always been for the rough-coated variety since these can withstand weather and rough going very much better . |
| 12 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 13 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 14 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |
| 15 | Then comes the fun of making the pattern — and do make sure that the dimensions you are going to work to are for the full pattern and not the kite frame shape . |
| 16 | This could be expressed in encouraging schoolchildren to think that careers in ‘ science ’ and ‘ maths ’ are for the brightest pupils while ‘ arts ’ and ‘ vocational training ’ are for others . |
| 17 | There are more differences between those groups than there are between the normal things that sociologists would look at ; for example , social class . |
| 18 | There is also a need for comparison studies to see what differences there are between the experimental situation and the classroom . |
| 19 | The uniform 's are about the only thing that 's changed . |
| 20 | We are about the only organization that can operate at all these levels . |
| 21 | Twice a week we have an assembly and , as a rule , assemblies are about the only occasions that Christianity gets a mention at school . |
| 22 | In his new job Mr Riddell will be chief executive of the UK and European operations , which are about the same size as the whole group was when he left . |
| 23 | Top footballers the world over are about the same standard but the hun-grier , more aggressive animal is the victor . |
| 24 | ‘ They are about the same age and build , a man and a woman , but beyond that — Some inflammable substance had been poured on them , almost certainly petrol . ’ |
| 25 | Again I accept the constant parental care has been of the highest calibre and I remind myself of the many tributes to the quality of that care in the evidence before me . |
| 26 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 27 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 28 | Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice . |
| 29 | If holders of speculative balances are of the general opinion that the price of bonds will fall in the near future ( i.e. their yield will rise ) , then they will not purchase these assets now because they will suffer a capital loss if their expectations are borne out by experience . |
| 30 | I know many of you are of the reformed faith and in your minds perhaps rightly so , but if you had seen what I saw then , you 'd still mourn . |