Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 2 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 3 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 4 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 5 | You 're back to that situation of commonsense again ai n't you ? |
| 6 | So there is there is a wider acceptance on the one hand , of erm , sort of freedom , erm , and I know we 're back to this idea of sexual freedom , but there is the violence within our society , and and the the the question probably is , are those two connected , as we give greater freedom on the one hand , do we get a higher incidence of violence on the other hand . |
| 7 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 8 | And secondly , I mean obviously parents are more worried if they feel that their child is not doing as well as somebody else 's child , and we 're back to this question of expectation again — where did they get the expectation that this other child is , as it were , some sort of norm that they ought to be living up to , and parents should talk to teachers and to other people who know their child and have got experience of their child as against other children to find out really whether their worries are truly grounded , or whether they are just groundless . |
| 9 | We 're back to this business of quality is conformance with requirements . |
| 10 | If , after all this time , we 're back to this sort of malarkey , they can fuck it , I 'm going on hunger strike . ’ |
| 11 | He took care of him and the Greek verb means that he literally took total charge of his case , in other words he probably stayed up all night nursing him , and so he made the inn into temporarily a nursing home and we 're back into another area of the Board 's concerns . |
| 12 | The Master Level Index is the main entry point to the entire system , below which there are up to three levels of functional refinement . |
| 13 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 14 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 15 | You are back in that cloud of desire . |
| 16 | The next morning , Aj had said , he 'd be down with six tons of red shale and then the real work would begin . |
| 17 | But it will certainly not be down to any shortage of hard work or effort beforehand . ’ |
| 18 | We could be in for another round of musical manager 's chairs |
| 19 | ‘ It 's when questions of loyalty will be up to individual captains of ships that confusion and misunderstandings could happen , ’ said one . |
| 20 | This will equal half the cost of the factory , which should be up to full production of body panels by the end of next year . |
| 21 | I mean , they should n't be out at this time of year cos the you know , the |
| 22 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 23 | Mr Hooker estimates that 12 years ago , when he paid £1.50 for his first grip , there were up to 100 collectors of whom he knew a couple of dozen . |
| 24 | ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 26 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 27 | It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else . |
| 28 | It was on to this scene of uncompromising paganism that the erratic bishop Wilfrid of Ripon came . |
| 29 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 30 | I mean it was down to that kind of detail . |