Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
| 3 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
| 4 | You definitely are on along the right lines . |
| 5 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
| 6 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 7 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
| 8 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 9 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 10 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
| 11 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 12 | A third are down to the thermal imaging capability . |
| 13 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
| 14 | At the time of this Report , knitters ' order intake volumes for Autumn 1993 are down on the previous year , in part as retailers delay ordering and in part reflecting recessionary conditions in key export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 15 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 16 | Instead of presenting a strong , clear answer to this misconception , many Christians show that their defences are down at the very place where modern unbelief is most devastating . |
| 17 | Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists . |
| 18 | Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists . |
| 19 | It 's nice to have new owners who do n't think we are down among the dead men . ’ |
| 20 | We are in for the long-term benefits which imply a long-term strategy and involvement ’ . |
| 21 | And with Robert Jones — another triumphant Lion of '89 — the ace in the Welsh scheme , Australia are in for the biggest examination of their status since they acquired it at Twickenham last year . |
| 22 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
| 23 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 24 | Others , of course , are in between the two extremes . |
| 25 | The players gave En Shao his required speed , demonstrating what fine form they are in despite the financial problems which have clouded the organisation of late . |
| 26 | That is correct , and the privatised noses are in among the privatised silver , getting the benefit . |
| 27 | I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything . |
| 28 | ‘ No one knows what I 've been through in the last 12 months , ’ he said . |
| 29 | What we 've been through in the last few years has brought us a lot closer , and that 's part of the reason I 'm getting out of the rat race of international cricket … certainly for a few years , anyway . |
| 30 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |