Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone believing that the personal computer price wars have abated are in for a rude shock this week when Compaq Computer Corp brings out a plethora of new machines , including its first stab at a multimedia model , and cuts prices significantly on its existing products . |
| 2 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 3 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 4 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 5 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 6 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 7 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 8 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 9 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 10 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 11 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 12 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |
| 13 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 14 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 15 | He thought and then said easily , " She was wondering whether there was a chance he might ask for a transfer now that Howarth has been in post a year . |
| 16 | They claim that employers are unlikely to consider anyone who has been out of a job for so long . |
| 17 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 18 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 19 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 20 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 21 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 22 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 23 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 24 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 25 | Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd been out with a client , and one thing led to another . ’ |
| 27 | And I says er you know when I came back from Rio de Janeiro , she 'd been out as a kiddy then . |
| 28 | I mean he 's such a good son in law to me , he really is , I mean he , he , he 'll help Pete with any thing , especially when they lived here , he 'll help Peter with any thing and erm , he 's very , very good to Deb , he get 's in after a days work , he does the shopping and housework , look 's after the cats which he does n't particularly like |
| 29 | Wassall must have been in with a chance of winning the £10,000 first prize because he was the fifth fastest qualifier , with a time of 11.92sec for the 100 metres . |
| 30 | I do n't want to detail the mistakes I made and quite clearly I have done things quite differently the second time around — otherwise , I 'd probably have been out of a job again at Sheffield Wednesday . |