Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually fell , seven short of a century , ‘ gated ’ by the offspinner after being stuck fast for 25 minutes , but Dermot Reeve , in his first Test , and watched by his mother Monica , who had flown halfway around the world to see him play , and Lewis , who unfurled drives and cuts of genuine quality , ensured progress was maintained as the weather closed in . |
| 2 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |
| 3 | Mm , it would of been better really , but never mind |
| 4 | A six would of been nice there though . |
| 5 | Yeah I suppose it would of been alright like , but I do n't like keeping them |
| 6 | As I hope to demonstrate later , by far the largest majority of infants are biased towards being social rather than antisocial . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is one of the interests capable of being legal under s. 1(2) ( e ) , Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 8 | He was aware of being awake long before he opened his eyes . |
| 9 | Professor Barrer 's timely book has the merit of being comprehensive yet readable , and beautifully produced . |
| 10 | It should be flexible : not in terms of changing.to meet the inputs but in terms of being broad enough to channel different inputs in the required direction . |
| 11 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 12 | Indeed , I recalled the Government 's commitment to ‘ work towards ’ the quality that we were studying , and could not understand exactly what I had envisaged by the notion of working towards the condition of being alive rather than dead . |
| 13 | He was saying that the very fact of being alive inevitably leads us to experience doubts , fears , anxiety . |
| 14 | Here in a land where you expect Lapp to fight Norwegian for the privilege of staying Lappish , Lapp was fighting Lapp for the privilege of being Norwegian rather than Swedish . |
| 15 | In short , the habitual way of being that so many of us are encouraged to fall into from a very early age is bound to affect our physical , mental and even our spiritual well-being . |
| 16 | The trust for sale has the enormous advantage of being available also for trusts of personalty , or of mixed land and personalty , and is also more convenient for creating discretionary trusts , which of course have no life tenant . |
| 17 | Governors not wishing to be accountable to local government have the choice of being accountable directly to central government by taking the school into grant-maintained status . |
| 18 | ( 6 ) The procedure for acceptance of a cash underwritten alternative which is capable of being shut-off early must be prominently stated in relevant documents and acceptance forms . |
| 19 | During this time they had also become accustomed to a pattern of corporeal proximity , nothing like horseplay of course , or holding hands , or significant touching , but just an ordinary sort of being close together like two friendly animals in a stall . |
| 20 | So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day . |
| 21 | I dug the idea of being free enough to just goof off from incessant maths homework . |
| 22 | Rapturous as the circumstances of its conception may have been , the genesis as a whole could only , in retrospect , seem an extraordinarily painful business , as he intimated to Rohde shortly after the book was out : " No one has any idea how such a book comes into being : the trouble and torment it is to keep oneself as clear as this of other ideas pressing in from all sides ; the courage needed to conceive of it and the honesty needed to carry it through ; and above all , perhaps , my tremendous task vis-à-vis Wagner , which has certainly been the cause of many heavy clouds in my heart " the task of being independent even here , of taking up an , as it were , alienated stance . " |
| 23 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 24 | Ludens was suddenly conscious of being hungry again . |
| 25 | It was the strain — deep down she knew — the strain of finding herself in this diabolical situation , the strain of being alone here , like this , with his contempt and superiority , struggling constantly against the physical awareness of him , the electricity that his presence produced . |
| 26 | More areas are included in the map where the user is willing to be wrong 10 times out of 100 , but far fewer in that which they are willing to run the risk of being wrong once in a hundred times ; a comparison of the 90 and 99 per cent maps will make this clear ( figs 6.5a and f ) . |
| 27 | The greenhouse effect is deeply in danger of being Branaghed largely because of the mind-numbing saturation with which it is being covered . |
| 28 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 29 | But it still needed to follow ‘ the art of being local worldwide ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Vinnie had an agent who did not take the necessary precautions of being able either to edit or vet what was said on the video . |