Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to persuade those who exercise authority in conventional terms that there are other forms of power than theirs : more diffuse but more pervasive ; less aggressive but more enduring , to be round in small towns and rural villages . |
| 2 | ‘ We expected all the equipment to be up to Olympic standard . |
| 3 | Staff Nurse Target needed to be back for visiting hour , as there were always some visitors asking questions . |
| 4 | She asked without looking at him , ‘ Were you unhappy ’ to be back with fashionable people ? |
| 5 | Train services expected to be back to normal by rushhour . |
| 6 | Further water samples will be tested today when supplies are expected to be back to normal . |
| 7 | Clare felt cheered to be back among like-minded people , doing something worth while . |
| 8 | He said it was a delight to be back among old friends on the North-East circuit . |
| 9 | Half nine it finishes so we 're supposed to be back by tennish I should think by the time we 're finished . |
| 10 | The decks must be clear , hatches fastened , Stripey out of sight , and above all the girls ought to be back in regular education . |
| 11 | The restored thirty-seater coach is expected to be back in public service for the bank holiday and will be made available for private party hire . |
| 12 | AFTER a two-and-a-half-year lull I fully expect my great friendship with Graham Gooch to be back in full swing on the tour to India . |
| 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 | They should be encouraged to be out for short walks from the second week after they arrive home . |
| 15 | And there 's no taping to be out of joint — as with plasterboards . |
| 16 | In other instances medical intervention via naso-gastric feeding may be necessary to aid the child gain weight sufficiently to be out of immediate danger ( Goldbloom 1984 ) . |
| 17 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 18 | They can hardly bear to be out of physical contact with the machine and when they are they carry their printouts around with them . |
| 19 | She was said last night to be out of intensive care and making progress . |
| 20 | The framework is due to be out with major OEMs and key users in early 1993 . |
| 21 | Even in the heavy rain she had to be out in clean air , running among the trees , anywhere other than inside the hot chamber of her skull . |