Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 2 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 3 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 4 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 5 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 6 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 7 | All the samples you make are of use to you . |
| 8 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 9 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 10 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 13 | The diachronic evidence shows that , for a century or more , the trend has been towards retraction and backing . |
| 14 | His poems can be awkward and blunt but you feel any revision has been towards truth rather than beauty . |
| 15 | The main thrust has been towards breeding Tridacna gigas and T. derasa , the common edible species , but with aquariums in mind commercial breeders are now raising the beautiful T. crocea . |
| 16 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 17 | This ancient wetland has been under threat ever since the £50 million Hereford Eastern bypass was announced in 1988 . |
| 18 | THOUSANDS of people will take to the streets of Glasgow tomorrow in support of the Albion axle factory , which has been under threat since the financial collapse of its Dutch parent company last month . |
| 19 | CCETSW has been under government pressure to raise the number of newly-qualified social workers to 5,000 a year , partly to meet demand from the shift to care management . |
| 20 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 21 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 22 | The report from the three wise men concludes : ‘ The significance of Super-SARA , from a Community point of view , has already been severely eroded during the years that the project has been under discussion and it is expected that its significance will be yet further undermined before the completion of the project . ’ |
| 23 | Since 1980 a proposal has been under discussion for a Directive which could require companies to introduce procedures for informing and consulting employees ; it became known as the ‘ Vredeling Directive ’ . |
| 24 | There is no legislative assembly , although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980 . |
| 25 | The project for the dam , which would be largest in the world , has been under consideration for nearly 70 years . |
| 26 | The idea of a move into Europe has been under consideration since at least 1989 , the year when Darty was first approached by Kingfisher . |
| 27 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 28 | The combined numbers of these three are perhaps 100 or 200 at the most , although an urgent conservation programme has been under way since 1980 . |
| 29 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 30 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |