Example sentences of "[is] [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this week is for is going on appointments I 've made last week , and for setting up my appointments for next week . |
| 2 | AFIRM of auctioneers which sold two oil paintings for £840 five months before the works fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's after being attributed to the 18th century master , George Stubbs , won its appeal yesterday against a judge 's ruling that it had been negligent . |
| 3 | The danger now is of being lulled into a false sense of family security . |
| 4 | And that is despite being named among those who are the lowest paid in the country . |
| 5 | Getting into the thing is like being fitted for a tin wet-suit . |
| 6 | All your life you live so close to truth , it becomes a permanent blur in the corer of your eye , and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque . |
| 7 | Even for the world 's fittest men , riding up them and surviving is like being battered onto your hands and knees . |
| 8 | So far so good , but is like being compared to like ? |
| 9 | Being hit by a plastic bullet is like being hit by an ice hockey puck at 250 km per hour — without the benefit of the goalkeeper 's protective clothing ’ . |
| 10 | What it is like being married into a ‘ low status ’ family in the Midlands was described to me by Surjeet , a teacher in her early twenties who had grown up in Britain . |
| 11 | It is like being attached to the free end of a rope ; a gentle pull at one end means a vicious kick at the other . |
| 12 | You see it 's like being chopped in two in n it ? |
| 13 | It 's like being caught in huge sticky web – the more you struggle , the more entangled you get . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's like being caught in the jaws of a vice , ’ says Andrew Jones , head of tax consultancy and compliance at Ernst & Young . |
| 15 | You get that flatfoot looking to tie you in knots and it 's like being squeezed by coils and coils of a sodding boa constrictor . |
| 16 | It 's like being lectured to and bored at the same time . |
| 17 | It 's like being zipped into a sponge bag — yuck . |
| 18 | Any spell directed against Magnus or the unit he is with is dispelled on the D6 roll of a 4 , 5 or 6 . |
| 19 | Where it differs significantly from Gournia is in being situated in the bottom of a steep-sided valley instead of on a low hill ; in a sense , the Zakro site is the mirror image of that of Gournia . |
| 20 | They 're on show at Sotheby 's before being auctioned on Thursday . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's to be done with the body ? ’ |
| 22 | I honestly do n't see what 's to be done except wait and keep our eyes open . |
| 23 | He 'll know what 's to be done about Meredith Putt . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't know what 's to be done about my memory . ’ |
| 25 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 26 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 27 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 28 | We moved the roof to Ron 's to be stored with the rest of the carriage . |
| 29 | It it 's to be expanded beyond that , we need to find ways of storing power produced on blowy days to use when it 's calm . |
| 30 | And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . " |