Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , despite her attachment to an extra-textual and pre-linguistic domain of mental activity , Nathalie Sarraute 's work , according to Heath , should not be limited by interpretative strategies which are fundamentally referentialist in orientation . |
| 2 | You men are so conformist in love , so provincial in imagination ; that is why we have to flatter you , to prop you up with little lies . |
| 3 | Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’ |
| 4 | Even supposing they could have pushed that up to 150,000,160 … we 're still way off track . ’ |
| 5 | And you 're now Director of South East Arts , having left the Arts Council . |
| 6 | and he 's having a punch up with his brother and he keeps letting his brother hit him he 's got this holographic image he , who accompanies him with this fucking computer , and working out what 's going on why they 're there sort of thing cos he goes back in into to different times to help these people out |
| 7 | I mean they 're very sort of vandal easy or whatever . |
| 8 | Not having set off from directly overhead Gransden ( a practice advisable in murky conditions ) we are slightly south of track . |
| 9 | Their attraction is based on an image which is at the other extreme from the uncertainty and powerlessness which are also part of adolescence . |
| 10 | A Christmas tree growers ' charter has been announced to make sure that the festive firs are really value for money . |
| 11 | Aid agencies are warning of a severe shortage of food in Central Bosnia and with Winter approaching , an estimated one and a half million people there are now dependant on aid . |
| 12 | His catchphrases like ‘ What a peach of a shot ’ and ‘ That 's a dream of a pass ’ are now part of tennis language . |
| 13 | So I feel that our power has grown very much and that we are now hand in hand with the comrades in Namibia . |
| 14 | Another consequence of this pattern is that ( c ) and ( g ) are now side by side — a configuration which was ruled out by every group . |
| 15 | He imagined labour as it would be , had it not been formulated by capitalism , and say that it would then be merely an aspect of the total business of living , unseparated from such activities as recreation , consumption , family life : that it would be just part of existence . |
| 16 | And her son too , if I 'm any judge of character . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm any good at marriage , Julius , except perhaps in bed , and even that did n't last , it all went wrong . |
| 18 | That that seems to me to be slightly back to front as as a justification for increasing the figures . |
| 19 | We 've heard tonight , and I do not believe it , a plea from Councillor , the Chairman of Social Services , that he wants ring fencing of Local Government money , I E the Government sends us our money and says , you will spend it on that and that and that and there will be now power of Local Councils to decide what the needs are in their areas and what their priorities are . |
| 20 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 21 | It must be almost time for lunch . ’ |
| 22 | Tullock ( 1971 ) neatly resolves the apparent paradox of there being much rhetoric about redistribution but very little actual redistribution between income groups . |
| 23 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 24 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 25 | It seemed to me that hardly any left the building in those weeks of May without murmuring apologetically that they were only leaving in order to get some baking done at home ! |
| 26 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 27 | As one of the architects of Northern Ireland , he sat in its parliament for county Down ( 1921–9 ) and then for mid-Down and Down from 1930 , and held high office for over twenty years , being successively minister of labour ( 1921–37 ) , minister of finance ( 1937–40 ) , and prime minister ( 1940–3 ) . |
| 28 | Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory . |
| 29 | True , he had become used to being interrupted — there were , in the category of interrupters , young feckless poets who thought nothing of calling and expecting to be subsidised without there being any thought of reimbursement . |
| 30 | However , it has been argued that certain clauses operate at an earlier stage so as to define and restrict the extent of the contractual obligation undertaken and so prevent there being any breach of contract . |