Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daresay th 's been through enough to kill most souls . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You have been through enough to know what this world is like . ’ |
| 3 | It does not protect the farmers since so many are now in difficulties and the long-term trend has been for many to leave agriculture altogether . |
| 4 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
| 5 | The last set of Home Office statistics for animal experiments which are for 1991 show that : |
| 6 | Our pricing system means rates quoted are for two sharing a cabin but when three travel together considerable savings are available . |
| 7 | At least two teams here , one at Hammersmith Hospital in London , and one at the University of Edinburgh , are about ready to screen 2-4 day old embryos . |
| 8 | There are about 20–40 confirmed cases of toxic shock syndrome a year in the United Kingdom , not all of them associated with menstruation , and with three or four fatal cases . |
| 9 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 10 | We are after all teaching these children to count |
| 11 | We are after all representing you , the British ; we are your team . |
| 12 | The first version suggests that women can gain authority by using men 's linguistic strategies , while the second is more sceptical about this ; linguistic strategies are after all chosen within particular social contexts and relations . |
| 13 | The oldest stories in Indian mythology are after all love stories , accounts of the relationships of lovers , and specifically of married couples . |
| 14 | Commercial fluid replacers ( iso- and hypotonics ) are of most benefit during exercise and they are not very rich in nutrients . |
| 15 | Tours are of most benefit to visiting students and specialists . |
| 16 | But these later pieces are of most use for the light they shed on the earlier development . |
| 17 | They are of most use in monitoring the investigative and administrative workloads of the different agencies together with giving some insight into the agencies ' changing priorities and interventions with children and families . |
| 18 | Er er I 'm afraid they 're about all passed on , now . |
| 19 | He does n't look at your face they 're like that looking at her , well I hate that . |
| 20 | Sh they 're like all clubbing together and giving her some money to go in with cos she 's got to have some money to go in with . |
| 21 | and we 're on all play all the time . |
| 22 | because you 're on all play you 're stuck there forever . |
| 23 | I think I I mean it' ironic really , I think they 're at last getting erm the kinds of shops that that best suit the area , on Road now . |
| 24 | It would have been like Donleavy to try to clear up the Asmar mess himself . |
| 25 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 26 | So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ? |
| 27 | The later recognition analyses are unlike those used in the previous two studies where relationships between risk and recognition sensitivity were explored within individual junctions . |
| 28 | Perhaps such volumes are amongst those lost . |
| 29 | Although only 6 per cent of children are educated in them , they exert considerable power , because the social elite are amongst those educated there and they in turn become successful in industry and business . |
| 30 | Marc Bazin , the leader of the MIDH , who was a liberal economist and former Finance Minister and World Bank official , and who was considered by most observers to be the most likely candidate to win fair and free presidential elections , was not believed to have been amongst those detained . |