Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salaries are believed to be above NHS levels . |
| 2 | Slow start but in the end realises ambition to be to blaxpoitation movies what Airplane was to disaster movies . |
| 3 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll have to be to Mr Rosen , Frank . |
| 5 | Lighting columns now have to be to regulation safety standards , and it is hoped that the new lights chosen will be complementary to the street . |
| 6 | The US Navy , despite the episode involving the Stark and another in which the USS Vincennes , believing herself to be under air attack , released the missile that shot down an Iran Air Airbus , had the satisfaction of catching an Iranian makeshift mine-layer , the Iran Ajr , with its mines on board , and confiscated both ship and cargo . |
| 7 | In 1989 Gray had been reported to be under FBI investigation concerning alleged payroll padding . |
| 8 | However , as of late March both bases were still believed to be under rebel control . |
| 9 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |
| 10 | Col. Iafai Camara was reported to be under house arrest in November [ see p. 37842 ] , but charges were reported to have been dropped and he remained in post . |
| 11 | In 1988 Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid , war hero of campaigns in the south and described at one time as having fought a ‘ perfect tank battle ’ in the desert near the Howeizah marshes , was said to be under house arrest . |
| 12 | The choice seems to be between Stoke backroom staff Chic Bates and Peter Henderson . |
| 13 | If any divide is to emerge , it is more likely to be between adult care and child care services . |
| 14 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 15 | You mention the prevention of the equal user five and ten percent level , right , but bear in mind that the more confident you want to , to be about inference I E the smaller the significance level , right , the , the lower is the power of the test . |
| 16 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 17 | From the look on their faces during the opening session , it was plain they had imagined an ‘ environment ’ conference to be about rain forests and whales . |
| 18 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 19 | ‘ The biggest point that hit me was how much Pay and File was going to be about cash management — juggling around with over- and underpayments . |
| 20 | I know it 's a cliché to be into Derrick May , but I am . |
| 21 | No one with half an eye on current trends is mentioning that his main claim to fame used to be as Susan Sarandon 's toy boy . |
| 22 | More important , people interested in temporary working are more likely to choose to be as agency workers rather than direct employees . |
| 23 | The local store is rumoured to be considering Sunday closing after the loss of its most loyal customer ! |
| 24 | Dreadful for you to be without Mrs Howard — I was a day or two without Maria , so I can completely sympathize . |
| 25 | But they are set to be without injury victims Robert Lee and Carl Leaburn for Tuesday 's game against Tranmere at Upton Park . |
| 26 | MARTIN MISERY : Wigan look likely to be without Martin Offiah when they kick-off against Hull |
| 27 | Balanced tree indexing Indexes are said to be of order e when there are e records per index entry , and of height h , where there are h levels of the index . |
| 28 | A B-tree is said to be of order m when every node has at least m/2 children , and at most m children , except the root and the leaf nodes . |
| 29 | Established villages are likely to be of type A , that is , closed and integrated ; transitional villages will probably be of types C or D , that is , closed or open but disintegrated , while the re-established village is likely to be of type B , which is open and integrated . |
| 30 | Established villages are likely to be of type A , that is , closed and integrated ; transitional villages will probably be of types C or D , that is , closed or open but disintegrated , while the re-established village is likely to be of type B , which is open and integrated . |