Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 2 | General Pershing is the one to be on at the big race . |
| 3 | IF THE truth be known , Ian Woosnam would probably just as soon be down at the Golden Lion in Oswestry tomorrow night , having a pint or two with the lads . |
| 4 | Otherwise , it will be down to the usual international brinkmanship in Rio itself , and that 's no way to run a planet . |
| 5 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 6 | In his opening speech , the hon. Member for Birkenhead said that we should ’ bring forward ’ the arrangements which will prevail after 1993 , but it will not be down to the local adjudication officer to assess people to decide the appropriate care and to assess the reasonable rate . |
| 7 | It would probably carry on like this for at least another hour , and then the first of the departures would begin ; the ones with an early start in the morning , the ones with teenaged babysitters , the ones who rarely went out anyway … an hour after that they 'd be down to the hard core , and an hour after that it would just be a case of guiding out those last drunks who were too far-gone to find the door . |
| 8 | That fine weather will contin ue this afternoon , with plenty of sunshine , although the east coast again could be in for the odd shower . |
| 9 | All entries must be in to the Green Dragon Museum Theatre Yard , Stockton , by May 23 . |
| 10 | This bereaved pensioner was glad to be in at the present death . |
| 11 | These days , it always seems to be in at the deep end for Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 12 | Novell believes systems software is one of the least assailable markets to be in during the coming decade . |
| 13 | In the past , Freud has had very little place in such sociological reappraisals , but he needs to be in alongside the other major thinkers about society . |
| 14 | However , the worst may not be over for the embattled Chancellor . |
| 15 | Glasgow High/Kelvinside are hopeful that Shade Munro 's prolonged absence will be over in the New Year . |
| 16 | Just give you one quick smack and that 'll be through to the other side ! |
| 17 | The padlocks would be off at the main entrance by now , for the late-morning mail and for bar deliveries . |
| 18 | " Many more schemes are due to be completed in the next few years , so that by 1995 virtually all our bathing waters will be up to the required standard " , Trippier claimed . |
| 19 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 20 | ‘ It will probably take a few more days before we know the source , but it would be up to the Disciplinary Committee to decide whether it will be made public , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Speaking to MEPs on Jan. 21 Poos declared : " There is a structural weakness in existing political co-operation and it will be up to the intergovernmental conference [ opened in December 1990 — see p. 37905 ] to tackle and reverse that " . |
| 22 | After that it would be up to the German socialists to respond , pressing their own Government to adopt positions convergent with the emergent consensus among the Allies . |
| 23 | It would then be up to the American deterrent to avert war . |
| 24 | This year a bumper crowd is expected to turn out for Northern Ireland 's premier triathlon event at Portaferry in July , and Alastair should be up with the front runners . |
| 25 | I mean , you could be up with the fucking could n't you ? |
| 26 | I honestly believe that because they 're certainly not strong enough erm to be up with the top boys , well they 're not going to disgrace themselves having said that , as I said before , the League 's pretty well evened out , but I think they 'll be at the lower part rather than the top part . |
| 27 | One final boost and he would be up among the true stars , all guidance systems go for a seat in the House of Lords upon retirement . |
| 28 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 29 | Time they get to about sixteen or seventeen you know they can be up in the top players . |
| 30 | they might be out of the divisional area but you , they might just as well be for the amount of you 're spending on them . |