Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 2 | Littlewoods has been through the classic problems of succession for a company built by a single man . |
| 3 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 4 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 5 | Having been through the six months of the greenbelt local plan enquiry , I can say quite clearly to this er examination in public , that I doubt whether there is the land available erm er around the inner edge erm erm to increase the level of of housing development in and around the city without seriously prejudicing greenbelt objectives . |
| 6 | I 'm , I 'm an alternative medicine practitioner and I tend to get a lot of people who are depressed coming to see me , people who have been through the normal routes |
| 7 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 8 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 9 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 10 | He was , as golf professionals had been for a hundred years , a serf . |
| 11 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 12 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 13 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 14 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 16 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 17 | Yet his criticism has not , by and large , been for the tabloid newspapers whose standards fell to new lows during the 1980s ; instead , he has reserved his bile for investigative journalists , particularly if they worked for television , and for those newspaper reporters who decided to boycott his lobby briefings . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 19 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 20 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 21 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 22 | This is a good example of a local commemoration which almost slipped through the net , had it not been for the sleuthing abilities of north east enthusiast David Thompson . |
| 23 | There then followed a decline , and the old arts would have been lost , had it not been for the Buddhist monks who kept the arts alive in their mountain refuges . |
| 24 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 25 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 26 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 27 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 28 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 29 | Of course , the pictures are for the young readers — or are they ? |
| 30 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |