Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , although what they are testing other people for are their own conventions , their own work does not necessarily provide evidence of them in practice . |
| 2 | Sarah Pope , 13 , has the distinction of being my youngest class member . |
| 3 | And , of course , of being your own boss . |
| 4 | For informal workers who genuinely do work for themselves the freedom of being your own boss does not often amount to much amid growing competition and soaring inflation . |
| 5 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
| 6 | She already had grave doubts about the propriety of letting him buy her things , but accepted that it was part of the deal of being his supposed girlfriend . |
| 7 | He wanted to recapture the feeling of being his own man , addressing his own problems , working as a member of a wider team that he had found in the RAF . |
| 8 | Another thing she disapproved of was his passionate interest in the other sex . |
| 9 | But , ’ with one last sigh and a brave smile , ‘ there 's nothing quite like being your own boss . |
| 10 | ‘ It was so chic , like being his rich uncle who died of the gout . |
| 11 | He got away with being what many others could only secretly aspire to be . |
| 12 | I will pay attention to these things , but one aspect of the specificity of the locales I am dealing with is their relative unimportance . |
| 13 | All he has to cope with is his own shame . |
| 14 | Piggy was seen as a responsible and dependable person and was left to look after the little-uns and to begin with was their parental figure . |
| 15 | Well ’ — she leant slightly forward — ‘ the fellow that Rosie went off with was your dear Andrew , the loving father . |
| 16 | Until the recent arrival of Joanna Lumley , the only thing Lovejoy was likely to leap into was his open-topped Morris Minor , but for the last few episodes he 's been gleefully doing more bedding than bidding . |
| 17 | I mean the heels have got ta be what two inches ? |
| 18 | It was , of course , far from being his only achievement . |
| 19 | Far from being his only subject , eroticism — along with politics , aesthetics and theology — is a seamless part of life for Kundera . |
| 20 | It was far from being his best film . |
| 21 | Women interested in being their own boss are invited to attend a seminar in Women 's Skills offices , Sun Alliance House , from 9.30am to 3.30pm tomorrow . |
| 22 | when is the , the sale in is it next Saturday ? |
| 23 | ‘ All we are interested in is our own form there and then . ’ |
| 24 | The advantage that it should build upon is its multiple ownership , House argues . |
| 25 | I think its very difficult to be yourself these days because you , you see so many magazines with beautiful people in and you think that 's how I want to look and its , its a sort of , pressure thing all the time |
| 26 | Moreover , members of other cultures are understood to be themselves active participants in such model building and so their social and linguistic ‘ grammars ’ have to be taken into account also . |
| 27 | Fundholding practices have more control over staffing , and many consider counsellors , along with physiotherapists and chiropodists , to be their highest priority . |
| 28 | It 's got to be their best choice erm it is closer to home , with no worries about overseas travel erm plus the backing of every major Tourist Board means they 're guaranteed quality . |
| 29 | Even if Nicu was intended to be their ultimate successor , he was not allowed to appear as dauphin , particularly not after making the critical remarks to his father about the economic problems and social conditions in Sibiu . |
| 30 | And what he enjoys even more is the knowledge that their affection is based upon patronizing him from what they take to be their greater radicalism ; while in fact , under the surface , he is more radical than they will ever be . |