Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As BS knows everything relevant about the physical state of affairs , the things that he does not know about are not physical states of affairs . |
| 2 | For what we are really talking about are merely linguistic symbols and the manner in which such symbols are manipulated within certain contexts , and all that can be detected here are certain similarities . |
| 3 | Many of them will be already known as are almost all texts . |
| 4 | ‘ Buying , renting and various options in between are simply different ways of obtaining a piece of electrical equipment , ’ said Mr Nigel Whittaker of Kingfisher . |
| 5 | ‘ Buying , renting and various options in between are simply different ways of obtaining a piece of electrical equipment , ’ said Mr Nigel Whittaker of Kingfisher . |
| 6 | At the end of October Jacje fell after being under Serbian siege for five months and in the largest exodus in the war to date the entire population of 25,000 left for Travnik . |
| 7 | Oh , cheap , oh I thought it would of been about fifty pounds |
| 8 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 9 | Well , I 've spoken about how we remember you but I know you have far more memories of being here those years ago and I know you 're really itching to get up off your seats and go and have a good look round to see where you were stationed and if it 's at all possible to see the huts , the billets or anything where you were . |
| 10 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 11 | Not only were the surroundings very different from Rustenburg , but the climate , too , in spite of being not many miles removed ; its elevation caused bitterly cold winters in contrast to the hot summers . |
| 12 | if that was it on the agenda that I miss because of being so early bit in the wrong place |
| 13 | Beautifully situated on a sunny mountain plateau high above the Inn Valley , and surrounded by flower filled meadows , Igls is a charming and peaceful village with the bonus of being only four miles from Innsbruck , the lovely capital of the Tyrol . |
| 14 | Regarding the bladder and rectum , Hunter was especially precise : ‘ Instead of being only 10 minutes about this Process you must be ½ an Hour to an Hour about it . ’ |
| 15 | Apart from the concern about CFCs destroying ozone in the stratosphere , CFCs pose the problem of being very efficient greenhouse gases . |
| 16 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 17 | Malcolm has served the church very faithfully during his term in office in spite of being under severe pressure of work during much of that time . |
| 18 | In several instances I have observed women successfully give an impression of being about ten years younger than they really are , until a major event happens in their lives , a death in the family perhaps , or a divorce . |
| 19 | Despite being so many years his junior , she had instinctively known how to handle him . |
| 20 | ‘ Most of the women I 'm photographed with are simply social acquaintances . ’ |
| 21 | Where we are not dealing solely with our own affairs but forming general preferences as to the kind of society we would like to live in , the main pleasures and pains we are concerned with are precisely these pleasures and pains of sympathy . |
| 22 | Your insults to myself I can stomach ; those you choose to demean an innocent young girl with are quite another thing . |
| 23 | Yes I do , but with being back first day . |
| 24 | I was signed to RCA at the time , and the music I was into was really hard dance music . |
| 25 | Point two is this , that I made the bottom border there er about be exactly five centimetres . |
| 26 | That being so , the only way to get more computing power to attack any given problem — and the sort of problems I 'm interested in are very complex problems — the only way to get enough computing power to tackle these may be to make a number of computers work together in co-operation ; what we call multiprocessor systems or , since we 're interested in microprocessors , small computers , we talk about multimicroprocessor systems . |
| 27 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 28 | Far from being just another Rolls-Royce clone with winged ‘ B ’ badges , the Mulsanne went straight back to the first act where raw performance and driving reward shared equal billing with cossetting comfort and refinement . |
| 29 | The canal route led through pleasant scenery and was more congenial in every way apart from being quite hard work through the many locks . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ Apart from being under new management , it 's business as usual in the department . ’ |