Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | , centre , with workmate , right , and ( retired ) who worked together for most of 's 20 years at . |
| 32 | What she could not have thought of was this sort of permanent liaison , almost a marriage . |
| 33 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 34 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 35 | And what they see the Conservatives coming forward with are harebrained schemes for vouchers , a handful of city technology colleges , and pushing opting out . |
| 36 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 37 | At the same time he took a very active part in the National Federation of Building Trade Employers , including being National President in 1966 . |
| 38 | Finding a foreigner to change money with was one way of obtaining the necessary dollars or changing money on the black market , a very expensive option . |
| 39 | Among the many distinctive books that Terry was involved with was National Anthems of the World , constantly updated and now in its eighth edition . |
| 40 | ‘ You see , dear boy , what you have stumbled upon are classic cases of what has happened to me . |
| 41 | Now , however , a comparison … has made clear that what the older version mainly suffers from are considerable deficiencies in ‘ discourse structure ’ , i.e. , in the way the sentences are combined into well-integrated paragraphs , and these in turn into a well-constructed whole . |
| 42 | thickened from being battered year on year |
| 43 | And , from being part-time entertainers on the toilet circuit , Suede have been disturbingly promoted to potential saviours of the entire music industry . |
| 44 | A few years ago , I wrote expressing my concern that the village of West Linton , Peeblesshire , had ‘ moved ’ from being 18 miles outside the GPO in Edinburgh to 16 and then to 14 miles . |
| 45 | The need is to move unions on from being state-controlled agencies for controlling industrial production to collective bargaining organisations . |
| 46 | For example , there are dual currency bonds , where the coupon payments are in one currency and the redemption proceeds are in another ; currency change bonds , where coupons are first paid in one currency and then in another ; deferred coupon bonds , where there is a delay in the payment of the first coupon ; multiple coupon bonds , where the coupon payments change over the life of the bond ( although in a predetermined manner ) , fixed-then-floating bonds , where the coupons change from being fixed rate to floating rate ; floating-then-zero bonds , where the bonds change from being floating-rate coupon bonds to zero-coupon bonds ; and missing coupon bonds , where a coupon payment is missed whenever a dividend payment on the issuing corporation 's shares are missed . |
| 47 | Despite this allusion to financial gentility , the truth was that Michael Joyce 's income derived from rented property , and from being general manager of the horse trams in Galway . |
| 48 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 49 | I mean , some people have kind of butterfly minds , with butterfly behaviour , and they switch from being one type of person or another type of person almost minute by minute . |
| 50 | From being one prince among many others he became the most powerful ruler in Europe , richer even than the Emperor , and completely overshadowing his own nominal overlord , the King of France . |
| 51 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |
| 52 | These two suggestions , far from being enlightened liberation of all children , are actually oppression of a deeply damaging kind to at least some , and Harris 's suggestion contains a capacity criterion in disguise . |
| 53 | Local authorities are changing from being direct providers of services to enablers . |
| 54 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 55 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 56 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 57 | Relaxed and expansive in his office , explained how he used a local policeman to obtain details from 's criminal record on the police national computer . |
| 58 | Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened . |
| 59 | The plans referred to are short-term plans for periods of from one week to one month . |
| 60 | Two are highly valued , namely lidya ( shy , timid , ashamed ) and höntugen ( frightened , fearful ) , and can be said to be integral aspects of the Chewong person ( Howell 1988 ) . |