Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit that I was not on the Committee and that I am on a steeply rising part of the learning curve , but I shall reach the asymptote fairly soon . |
| 2 | ‘ It means that I am in a liaison role here . |
| 3 | Consider the statement that I am in a jolly mood , which clearly is not one of the chosen kinds . |
| 4 | My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ The side has been doing really well without me but I 'm out to convince everybody that I 'm worth a place in the side . ’ |
| 6 | And he said : ‘ The side has been doing really well without me but I 'm out to convince everybody that I 'm worth a place in the side . ’ |
| 7 | They ca n't say that I 'm in a druggy haze or that I 'll get out of it . |
| 8 | I feel that I 'm in a rainbow , that the rain will stop , the light will change , and it 'll vanish and I 'll never be certain it was ever there . |
| 9 | It 's just that I 'm in a hurry to get away . ’ |
| 10 | Now I 'm not for a mom , I 'm not for a moment suggesting that it 's something that would be picked up on a regular basis , but I think it does mean , as you rightly say , that er , if , if , if such a procedure does arise then I 'm conscious that I 'm in a one off situation , I know there 's at least one of our colleagues on our benches who has this on , with children on a more regular basis . |
| 11 | ‘ However , I can see that I 'm in a no-win situation . |
| 12 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 13 | Er I might also say , on open access which is something that I was at a meeting for yesterday in London . |
| 14 | The excitement of the adventure started to dissipate and I was left with the cold reality of knowing that I was on a train with hardly any money , no ticket and nowhere to go . |
| 15 | I never doubted that I was on a road that led somewhere . |
| 16 | Oh well last I got out I found that I was about a foot too far forward out into the |
| 17 | the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need , that I was like a child in his hands . |
| 18 | The format of the interview was that I was in a single chair placed to the side of a panel of six sitting in two rows . |
| 19 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
| 20 | By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT . |
| 21 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 22 | I do n't think that I was in a minority of one in finding this performance , particularly the absolutely shattering playing of the Finale , incredibly moving — the thunderous howl of approval that greeted the final chord bears that out . |
| 23 | ‘ I realised that I was in a good position , I had a little bit of work , which fitted in with my family life . |
| 24 | I did n't lose consciousness , but pretty soon it dawned that I was in a lot of pain . ’ |
| 25 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 26 | It felt churlish to tell him that I was in a hurry , that the coffee would have to be quick . |
| 27 | I have never felt so much that I was in a foreign country with seemingly infinite resources available for any purpose you care to name , from stretch automobiles to space travel . |
| 28 | The field was laid out in strips about two feet apart and only after pushing into the crop did I realize that the plants were trained up a trellis of almost invisible wires and that I was in a hop field — a ‘ beer field ’ , as Duncan would have called it . |
| 29 | Well that would imply that I was in a pretty bad way and normally would n't do |
| 30 | But surely the fact that somebody 's of a different generation will erm th th they would have a different |