Example sentences of "[prep] be [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 House Funnily enough I was going to say to you when we were out at erm Dartington instead of buying that ice cream , we should of had a cup of tea probably would of been about the same price , and so
2 She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him .
3 Charlie might have quite enjoyed the lesson if Trentham had n't left the impression that none of them was worthy of being in the same regiment as himself .
4 Despite being on the same latitude as Stockholm and Churchill ( Canada ) it was a renowned stock-rearing area .
5 When it comes to pay and conditions at work we 're nowhere near being in the same class as our European counterparts .
6 They all come into being at the same time .
7 ‘ I do n't think our friendship has much to do with being in the same business .
8 ‘ It would appear to be over a former girlfriend . ’
9 Inspector Steve Clapham , of Chester Police , said : ‘ His action appeared to be over a former girlfriend . ’
10 He was determined to be under the same roof as his chapel .
11 Taken broadly , this view of philosophical knowledge as having to do with ‘ causes ’ shows Hobbes to be under the same Aristotelian influences as Bacon .
12 You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association .
13 From my viewpoint , major upgrades have to be worth the few pounds it might cost .
14 Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon .
15 So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking
16 The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top .
17 The fact of Jesus ’ maleness then would seem to be of no more import than is his or her sexuality in the case of any other human being .
18 If temporary workers are to be brought in , they will press for them to be of the latter category .
19 While Mulroney appeared to represent the former when he was elected , he has in fact turned out to be of the latter kind , and that exposed position may also have contributed to his loss of support .
20 The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind .
21 Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex .
22 Colonel Peter Young was a popular officer , well liked by everyone , always seemed to be of the same temperament , in action , or sitting at the bar in a country inn .
23 The matter has received our closest and most careful consideration and although the details were worked on in 1886 for another canal in the Manchester district ( but not used ) they are all to all intents and purposes equally applicable to the Grand Union Canal , when that canal is improved , to be of the same working capacity as the Grand Junction Canal and to carry the same vessels .
24 This model did not have to be of the same sex .
25 Hibberds workshops behind the shop were beautifully timbered , not a straight line to be seen anywhere , whilst the Post Office buildings , including an old bakehouse , appeared to be of the same period .
26 In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time .
27 The transcendental practices of the Australia Aborigines seem to be of the same order as those of the Tibetan practices , even if not so highly developed .
28 The masters in painting , Reid says , ‘ know how to make the objects appear to be of the same colour by making their picture really of different colours ’ .
29 Isolated bacteria usually prove to be of the same type normally found in the human gut , but why some men should suffer rather than others is unknown .
30 The straps to be of the same material as the coat and of the colour of the facings of the arm . ’
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