Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buildings of Cambridge colleges are predominantly of stone , while those of domestic Cambridge are mainly of brick and slate . |
| 2 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 3 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 4 | The change has meant that fund managers have , as John Harrison says , ‘ begun to realise that charities with their gross funds are rather like pension funds : they have an institutional nature with trustees involved and this makes them a fund management proposition ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You are right of course , my lady . |
| 6 | Because it considers that capitalist economies are fundamentally in dis-equilibrium and each regulation system which controls them breaks down eventually , its view of history does not include the regular and predictable cyclical pattern of long-wave theory . |
| 7 | He remarked however that there was little to choose between kitchen and living-room in respect of air , since the oven had been on since dawn . |
| 8 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 9 | But for that he would have got his sword out of its scabbard , and the fight they could not afford would have been on in earnest . |
| 10 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 11 | Such people are effectively under house arrest . |
| 12 | A barn owl 's body feathers are mostly for warmth , while the wing and tail feathers are used for flight . |
| 13 | It is also worth noting that , whereas the mills of the Lancashire cotton trade on the west side of the Pennines are mostly of brick , the wool mills of Yorkshire , on the east side , are of the readily available stone . |
| 14 | They are mostly of brick , unlike the woollen mills of Yorkshire , which are nearly always of stone . |
| 15 | Its street frontages are mostly of glass , separated by stone mullions designed to look like cast iron , and the windows are constructed as oriels in very slender iron frames ; it is included in this book because it was a pioneering metal-framed building . |
| 16 | For those who are mostly in bed or in a wheelchair , there are various types of bags , which can also be used at night . |
| 17 | Dr Gordon Moore , Intel chairman , said : ‘ We are badly in need of extra systems capacity and this part of the project will go ahead extremely rapidly . ’ |
| 18 | And , while they are badly in need of such innovations as a massive reafforestation programme , desalination facilities , an organised fishing industry , means to exploit their few mineral resources , and perhaps even tourism , they will not give up easily their island heritage . |
| 19 | Indeed , it is here above all that the contemporary ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts who slap down ‘ permissiveness , as a postwar invention are badly in need of a history lesson . |
| 20 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 21 | Their disadvantage is that the less exotic goods like fittings are rarely on display so you will need to know what you are after . |
| 22 | This small herd of 40 or 50 animals , though enclosed , still has the freedom of 135ha of land and the animals are rarely in contact with humans ; they live as a wild herd and exhibit many interesting behaviour patterns , which have been studied in the past by famous artists and very recently by Cambridge zoologist Stephen Hall , who has published his observations . |
| 23 | The justification usually advanced is that the facts are rarely in dispute and that the judge who has witnessed the incident is the person best equipped to deal with it . |
| 24 | Members of the general public usually only respond and react to media content : they are rarely in control of media work . |
| 25 | Hole have been right up front with the anger thanks to newly pregnant Mrs Cobain , Courtney Love . |
| 26 | She had been right of course . |
| 27 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 28 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 29 | When people fall short of their standards , and are thereby in breach of their injunctions , somewhere inside they start to feel badly about themselves , and to begin to doubt their worth and acceptability . |
| 30 | Despite differences of emphasis between different unions , union policies have been overwhelmingly in favour of technological change , while at the same time seeking increased involvement in the process of change to " maximise the benefits and minimise the costs " of such changes . |