Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Renton , of Wentworth Investment Services , was yesterday arrested by City of London police at Heathrow Airport after being out of contact since last Friday . |
| 2 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 3 | Popular Welsh jockey Tim Rooney expects to resume at the Llandeilo Farmers after being out of action since a fall with his first ride of the season . |
| 4 | Anyway coach Olsen actually before this game mentioned that some players was knocking on the door for a place — Fjortoft and Sorloth has kind of been out of form recently . |
| 5 | It 's really confusing , cos kids are they 'll all of been in at play time today wo n't they ? |
| 6 | This traffic was the object of UN toleration in spite of being theoretically in contravention of UN sanctions against Iraq . |
| 7 | P. C. Thomas Wheeler of Liverpool City Police was fined 40&shilling. by the Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate on a charge of being unlawfully in possession of two pounds of rice and some oranges , value 1/6d . |
| 8 | Doubts were raised over the course of events during the revolution , with the NSF accused of being already in existence six months before Dec. 22 , waiting in the wings and " stealing " the revolution from those who made it . |
| 9 | But under the circumstances of being there on trial , I did feel that he was very nervous . |
| 10 | She had no intention of being anywhere in sight when Ace returned . |
| 11 | ‘ In that house over there , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm not at all afraid of being out at night . |
| 12 | Now we must ask , what are the dangers of being out of work ? |
| 13 | But they were more interested in telling Mo about their experiences of being out of work . |
| 14 | But when people lose their jobs , they now stand a worse than fifty-fifty chance of being out of work for more than three months ( in July 1978 , 53 per cent of those who were registered as unemployed had been out of work for longer than three months ) . |
| 15 | The poorest people experience the longest periods of being out of work . |
| 16 | You agree that come twelve months er of being out of work |
| 17 | But in even-handedly denouncing ardent Europhiles and Europhobes as ‘ superannuated Sumo wrestlers ’ he was , in effect , accusing Downing Street of being out of date — even on worker participation in industry and the Social Charter . |
| 18 | They were accused of highhandedness , selfaggrandisement , venality , and of being out of touch with the everyday life of Orkney . |
| 19 | On March 20 Sanjaasureniyn Dzorig , co-ordinating secretary of the MDU , addressed a rally of 4,000 , accusing the new MPRP leader Ochirbat of arrogance and of being out of touch with the situation in Mongolia . |
| 20 | These feelings of being out of control can lead to inappropriate behaviour — maybe submissive behaviour . |
| 21 | She never again wanted to experience the feeling of being out of control and dependent on someone else 's approval , at someone else 's mercy . |
| 22 | Trisha says this was an emotional as well as a physical reality : ‘ This feeling of being out of control is like being on a roller coaster — there 's no way out . ’ |
| 23 | Fear of being out of control may mean a fear of appearing uninhibited , or seeming dependent . |
| 24 | This sensation of being out of control was frightening her . |
| 25 | With François Mitterrand 's re-election for a second seven-year term in 1988 , they had to face the demoralising prospect of being out of power for 14 years . |
| 26 | Following inter alia Feige ( 1967 ) and Sharpe ( 1973 ) , we assume that investors pursue a long-run target portfolio S* given by ( 2 ) subject to the costs of being out of equilibrium and adjusting asset holdings . |
| 27 | There are so many other exciting ways of being out in front in innovative housestyles … |
| 28 | The music immediately evoked the sensations , the enchantment , of being sillily in love , and simultaneously she was no longer in love . |
| 29 | Alastair and Flora came quite often and the four of them enjoyed the luxury of being totally at ease . |
| 30 | The speed was intense , but it was a feeling of being every shape and object within view ; of being all of creation at once . |