Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the bits in between are hard work and ultimately are not really worth the bother . |
| 2 | Tony Greener was appointed chairman of Guinness PLC in January 1993 , after being chief executive from January 1992 . |
| 3 | it must of been about Tuesday , it must of been first day |
| 4 | So it must of been this afternoon when |
| 5 | But I mean there was er , they were so kind to them in the hospital if there would of been any sign of distress they would of , you know , usually anyway you do n't usually have distress at the end you 're usually at peace are n't you ? |
| 6 | would there of been any problem at all in your providing it ? |
| 7 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 8 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |
| 9 | Must of been clean mud , I du n no ! |
| 10 | It must of enlightened them on what the scriptures meant , by the sacred secret , cos before it must of been some kind of weird mystery to them |
| 11 | it 's sort of in relation to it , there must of been some reason why he said that to take them to , hear more to other people |
| 12 | That must of been some time ago |
| 13 | there must of been some relation problem with each other , the earlier erm thing |
| 14 | some local paper or even , might of been Daily Express or summat like that you see |
| 15 | you know got enough to go to university , things like that to of been top dog all your school life , it might do you good not to be |
| 16 | Well there 'd ought to of been more control but apparently now , you know how the Indians come over here , all the time do n't they ? |
| 17 | Must of been last Christmas cos |
| 18 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 19 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 20 | I have no intention of being chief cook and bottle-washer for the fortnight that you 're around . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 22 | But no doubt some of the original Hooligans — ‘ instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried ’ as Baden-Powell had somewhat indelicately described the goal of reclamation — were buried alongside them , remembered only in the writings and memoirs of youth workers which act as their tombstones . |
| 23 | Both have been designed to meet fully the requirements a set out by the County Council and we 're quite happy , we can actually meet that requirement of being one kilometre from Flaxton , in fact we greatly exceed that distance , despite and that is a on the design of a larger new settlement than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 24 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 25 | In a sense we were still in the aftermath of being one person . |
| 26 | ACTORS dressed up as Vikings for a Welsh S4C documentary were challenged by local people in Swansea and accused of being New Age travellers . |
| 27 | There is a CND symbol on the front of this record , therefore we have been forced to ban it , in the interests of being Right Wing . |
| 28 | The upper surface is olive green , while the lower surface is pale to purplish green , and the entire leaf gives the appearance of being brownish green . |
| 29 | Ironically , he made the accusation in 1931 shortly before he himself exercised ‘ power without responsibility ’ as the dominant figure in Ramsay MacDonald 's National Coalition government , controlling MacDonald 's government without bearing the responsibility of being Prime Minister . |
| 30 | But when the new Parliament assembled on 31st May the balance of parties was the same as before , and in negotiations which followed , Disraeli offered Palmerston a seat in a Conservative Government , with the possibility of being Prime Minister . |