Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd be on to central heating systems next . |
| 2 | So I put them two and a half up to press with this one and then I can turn it over and I 'll be on to third side . |
| 3 | Now the hunt must be on for tryp-killing drug molecules which will actually penetrate into the choroid epithelium . |
| 4 | Yeah but just phone up and just be on for more , more than a minute , you know , would n't be so bad but you start hanging about . |
| 5 | Well before Cordoba made his debut over today 's course two months ago , his name was being whispered behind many a well-respected hand as the one to be on for next year 's 2000 Guineas . |
| 6 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 7 | She ruled their lives with a rod of iron , would not let TV be on after 10 p.m. , cancelled the daily papers , and insisted that her daughter continue to share her bedroom , while he slept alone in the spare room . |
| 8 | You 'll be on from 7.30 A.M. to 4 P.M. this week ; next week , 1.30 P.M. to 10 P.M. ; third week 3 P.M. to midnight . |
| 9 | Apart from exhibitions from its stock of artists such as Mary Cassatt , Maurice Prendergast and John Singer Sargent , which Adelson plans to hang in the new gallery , a show of contemporary sculptor Jim Ritchie will be on from 12 November to 5 December . |
| 10 | Certainly , the only go , the only way I run a shift , the way she runs checkouts , is erm , by going , you , it 's the same thing every day , you 've got to run through everything on the same point order , because you know , you 've been doing it , it 's got to be done at the same time , like bread the last lot 's got to be on by four . |
| 11 | The next morning , Aj had said , he 'd be down with six tons of red shale and then the real work would begin . |
| 12 | Mind you , we 'll go buy some and your Corrinne 'll be down with half a bag or summat daft like that ! |
| 13 | There were problems with the warrant , and the Legal Attaché was going to be down at New Scotland Yard for the morning , and probably for the afternoon . |
| 14 | Everyone will be down for early breakfast . |
| 15 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 16 | At the same time , interest rates were reduced , the supply of money was relaxed , and the National Bank forecast that by the end of the year the annual rate of inflation would be down to 55 per cent . |
| 17 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 18 | But no allegations would be made against any individuals , and it would be down to each authority to decide whether to make inquiries with Leicestershire police or social services . |
| 19 | We shall be down to 80 per cent . |
| 20 | A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen . |
| 21 | Well that 's fine , but why should it be down to thirty percent ? |
| 22 | Much of that must be down to erstwhile Spector/Young arranger Jack Nitsche . |
| 23 | By dawn it will be down to 8 celsius . |
| 24 | It had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 25 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 26 | In two years it could well be down to single figures . |
| 27 | On the M forty between junctions four and five for High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow system for a short stretch about mid-way between the two junctions , also that can be down to single line traffic at times , so it is likely to slow you down a little . |
| 28 | Some 1,400 new vehicles have been added to the fleet to replace much older stock , and by next year the average age of vehicles will be down to seven years . |
| 29 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 30 | There are twenty six er coal-fired power stations now , I believe they 'll be down to ten within the next three years , and I think in the electricity generating industry another ten thousand jobs could go . |