Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 My friends who lived nearby were all envious for I was the only one who had ever been down into the depths of the mysterious cellar .
2 In rugby , Bicester are through to the semi-finals of the Provincial Insurance Cup .
3 We 're back in the trenches of World War One , it 's raining and the men are ankle-deep in mud .
4 And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region .
5 With it , we are back with the problems of identity , specifically those of projection , the process by which certain aspects of the self are seen as located in some object external to the self , and of introjection , the process by which certain aspects of external objects are seen as being located within the self ; we are firmly back in the area of object-relations .
6 But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar .
7 Woolwich says six-month arrears are back to the levels of February 1988 and the Abbey National says short-term arrears have been declining since the end of last summer and repossessions are stable or falling .
8 The change has been a major exercise , and while the civil war may not be over in the eyes of the excise collectors , the next issue of Guinness Today will carry the story of the people behind the massive change to End Product Duty .
9 They must n't be out of the perimeters of the pallet .
10 We will be back to the failings of Management Budgeting .
11 And one suspects it might be back in the days of the nineteen fifties , nineteen sixties when the labour party opposed anything at local level , of course , but at local level that might tend towards helping people to be upwardly mobile on the grounds that upwardly mobile people stop voting labour .
12 We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus .
13 Every week they were out on the streets of Highgate or Chalk Farm preaching , and Eva belonged to the cadet 's singing brigade .
14 ‘ This was when you were out in the wilds of Oxfordshire , right ? ’
15 FORMER Northern Ireland champion Michael Duffy is through to the quarter-finals of the European Snooker Championship in Helsinki , Finland .
16 He 's through to the semi-finals of the nude mud-wrestling , and he 's in training .
17 The plan 's changes should go a long way to drag Lloyd 's up to the standards of other financial markets .
18 The type of material used for this project is up to the whims of the individual , and may run from a soft cedar to the more expensive hardwoods , or a combination of woods , depending on the grain pattern and colour contrasts desired .
19 No other sort of mind is up to the demands of the system , which needs to seem to have judicial impartiality and a rocklike permanance while also being quickly responsive to the latest political fads .
20 Alongside these , the seasonal range of edible flowers is back on the shelves of stores causing great media and customer interest .
21 IVAN Boesky is back on the streets of New York City .
22 Once it is back within the confines of home , however , it may immediately decide to go to the toilet .
23 AN IRA victim is back in the arms of the woman he loves — because he was injured in a bomb blast .
24 They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads .
25 But in any case I 'm not complaining if it 's back to the days of sitting downstairs with a brandy and soda while midwives rush about boiling water and collecting towels .
26 When both worked , it was down to the skills of the two drivers and there seemed very little to distinguish them .
27 She was back in the offices of the business services agency .
28 At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again .
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