Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careful management of such clumps can result in the production of high-quality timber while the areas in between are available for the natural regeneration of trees , shrubs and ground flora . |
| 2 | After being involved with The Hitman , a show that celebrates its own lightweight tackiness , establishing her credibility as an artist could be a problem . |
| 3 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 4 | New signing Mark Bright returns to the attack after being ineligible for the Spora tie . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Scarborough have sacked groundsman John Carter after being unhappy with the state of the McCain Stadium pitch . |
| 6 | that 's it , I was , I was , I must of been addictive to the Coke |
| 7 | I did n't think it was very wobbly , but she said she swallowed it and there 's a load of blood at the ramp at school so , so I said that must of been nice for the teachers , mind , but the other one I found |
| 8 | you must of been dead to the world , what with working |
| 9 | Does this really show that the public of are worried about the Trusts ' hospitals . |
| 10 | Can I assume that we sort of are happy with the format that there should be a national curriculum level and there should be a general skills and abilities ? |
| 11 | Taking teachers in the different phases separately , a similar tendency towards being negative about the Oxfordshire scheme was evident amongst the non-respondents . |
| 12 | Also , his different bonds to conformity are not fully independent of each other , with a tendency towards being reducible to the primary bond of attachment — particularly to parents . |
| 13 | Can I also say that , er yes , we were badly served by the press but I think that er the onus now is on those of us who went to Canberra to be able to share with others and we have been going round to tell others about Canberra to share with you and with others the experience of being present in the World Council of Churches in Canberra . |
| 14 | Such a suggestion has at least the face validity of being consistent with the research done by Labov and others on language variation ( see Hudson 1980 : Chapter 5 for a review ) . |
| 15 | ‘ But instead of being delighted with the result he complained to us about the beer . |
| 16 | And , and I I think we 're in danger of being complacent over the D S O. Now I have over many years been involved with the D S O , and er , and I I support their efforts . |
| 17 | ? ) On a more serious note , my thanks are due to Dr. Peach , the Tutor for Graduates , for being available and interested without being intrusive , and to the Principal for understanding so well the fears and uncertainties of being new on the job . |
| 18 | So individuals may only have rights against their government in the strong sense of being immune to the countervailing claims of general utility if those rights may be derived from that overriding principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 19 | So two different calculations are made ; the effect of being rich among the young is 0.433–0.391 , or +0.042 , and that among the old is 0.266–0.172 , or +0.094 . |
| 20 | It has the advantage of being possible through the enactment of secondary legislation . |
| 21 | That is , it must be considered as historically transcendent in the sense of being unaffected by the same , historical , process that Lukács describes for class consciousness . |
| 22 | His lassitude , his great size and beautiful , well-groomed appearance , his unhurried air of having all he wanted and of being unaffected by the newcomers one way or the other — all these presented Hazel with a problem unlike anything he had had to deal with before . |
| 23 | where C SL is the transactions cost of being long in the spot index ( buying shares in the index ) ; C FN is the transactions cost of being short in the future ( selling a future ) ; C SN is the transactions cost of being short in the spot index ( selling short every share in the index ) ; and C FL is the transactions cost of being long in the future ( buying a future ) . |
| 24 | where C SL is the transactions cost of being long in the spot index ( buying shares in the index ) ; C FN is the transactions cost of being short in the future ( selling a future ) ; C SN is the transactions cost of being short in the spot index ( selling short every share in the index ) ; and C FL is the transactions cost of being long in the future ( buying a future ) . |
| 25 | The latter reality , behind the ‘ surface ’ reality , is readily experienced , being entered when we are ‘ transported ’ by a particular musical experience , by a breath-taking piece of prose or poetry , or by just having an upsurge of feeling of being right with the world . |
| 26 | But now the water flowed , water as from a spring whose source he had forgotten , the lost energy of young and wasted years ran into his limbs and mind and spirit so that he looked everywhere with honesty , with a sensation of being right in the world . |
| 27 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 28 | Olongapo has the distinction of being adjacent to the US naval base in Subic Bay . |
| 29 | May I make it clear to my hon. Friend that this is a document that the Labour party simply could not write , because the principle of being critical of the producer is anathema to a party that is totally in thrall to the producers ? |
| 30 | The possibility of reason-giving , of being capable of the awareness that one 's life was one way , that it is now different , and that futility is the result , involves , as I have contended at length , the possibility of language . |