Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | large corporations and organizations , such as are likely to have in-house language training services . |
| 2 | The most sought after are those containing glass animals , such as a curled snake or salamander . |
| 3 | Masur beat compatriot Jaime Morgan 3–6 4–6 6–3 6–4 7–5 after being two sets down and then 5–0 down in the final set . |
| 4 | At best , a family might be given two shillings weekly if , after being willing to submit to a very strict investigation into their financial position ( this was called a ‘ Means Test ’ ) they were found to be at starvation level . |
| 5 | WALLY the wandering wallaby was last night keeping many hops ahead of his worried owner and police after being unable to resist the call of the wild . |
| 6 | The jury in the Mona Bauwens libel case have been discharged after being unable to reach a majority verdict . |
| 7 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 8 | As Byrd begins the long rehabilitation process which doctors hope will enable him to regain some movement , former team-mate Al Toon , one of the game 's top wide receivers , sits in retirement after being unable to shake off the effects of the ninth concussion in his eight-year career . |
| 9 | This architect specified radiused gutter proved extremely difficult for the builder to obtain , until the problem was solved by Apex after being able to fabricate the specification requirement |
| 10 | but he must of been all worked up and since then I 've had a right struggle , most nights |
| 11 | and er it would of been impossible to rest your feet on the rail them performing the most uncomfortable |
| 12 | Yeah well I remember that then just sleep overcame me and I , I closed me eyes and the next thing I knew John says well I wished you 'd of been awake to see that |
| 13 | They I mean in a time when it 's sort of been difficult to make money erm why is that one got not gone by the board and more amateur production put in there ? |
| 14 | Well er , she said they had this This is Your Life on and Neil was in the room in the lounge like and he 'd sort of been half watching it and then he said urgh mum ! |
| 15 | Ah no , oh would it of not of been kinder to put it to sleep as soon as it were born ? |
| 16 | For one 's frailties to be known by someone else , someone who does not add their voice to the clamour of internal judgement , is the first step back towards being able to view one 's predicament simultaneously with accuracy and equanimity . |
| 17 | One facility used for making helicopter blades is now finding new use for producing jointless Wings which have the added benefit of being cheap to import because of the weak state of the Rand . |
| 18 | And I suspect it 's the same kind of actual physical complaint that women who complained of being depressed have . |
| 19 | The effort of being diplomatic left her depressed once more and miserable . |
| 20 | First , instead of being content to rest his case on the distinction between commonsense and scientific language , he insisted that certainties in science , having once been established , should be regarded as aids in biblical exegesis . |
| 21 | This had the advantage of being simple to operate and relatively cheap . |
| 22 | They have the advantage of being easy to carry around , and with care can be used anywhere — in bed , on a beach and so on ( but not in a meeting with a client ) . |
| 23 | It is still relatively expensive and can not go into subjects in depth in the same way as print , but has the advantage of being easy to watch , in an idiom or genre which is very familiar to most people , and it can be viewed by groups of staff simultaneously . |
| 24 | Block pavers have the big advantage of being easy to handle ( they 're usually the same size as conventional bricks ) . |
| 25 | The civil service , like the private telegraph companies , found its female employees to be competent , ‘ docile ’ workers , with the additional advantage of being cheaper to employ than men . |
| 26 | He had little conviction that he could fulfil this role properly , his own experience of being fathered having been so grossly inadequate . |
| 27 | But mental and emotional factors are of prime significance , and ultimately it is the breakdown in cohesion and the naturally occurring communication between these areas of being that becomes the main underlying cause of cancer . |
| 28 | She had wild visions of being obliged to invite him to dinner every night . |
| 29 | However I had perceived that he had been caught in that familiar predicament of being obliged to continue to the end of a story which half-way through he repented of having begun . |
| 30 | Press bias ( that is , reading a right-wing or left-wing paper ) had a relatively large influence upon Thatcher 's image of being willing to listen , caring , and likeable . |