Example sentences of "be [prep] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 2 | One instance where this can arise is if there are two males of the same , or closely-related , species and they are of about the same size . |
| 3 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 4 | when when you 're in in the fucking station waiting for the old train you 're on the front of the fucking platform . |
| 5 | Aeroplanes currently win the ‘ but my are n't they dangerous ? ’ tag because that is the stage we 're at in the great evolutionary game . |
| 6 | This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years . |
| 7 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 8 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 9 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 10 | In five minutes , everyone he had been with on the long voyage over from Pompey was dead . |
| 11 | But Daedalus wonders what breathable foam would be like as a total environment . |
| 12 | Besides , what would your one shining summer be like without a few interesting male specimens in it ? ’ |
| 13 | He tries to imagine the process by demystifying himself , in other words , by ridding himself of the fantastic in the notion of labour , and by trying to see what it would be like without the strange construction of the system of his time . |
| 14 | God knows what it 'll be like in a real race . |
| 15 | What in the world would the company be like in a few years ' time if such people were in the driving seat ? |
| 16 | But until my anticipation turns into apprehension again I will be waiting , imagining what my life will be like in the new school and will I be able to remember where the toilets are . |
| 17 | Banks ' and brokers ' investment in London makes any rapid exodus unlikely , but some in the City are asking what ‘ business as usual ’ will be like within a prime terrorist target — and whether the benefits of doing it there , rather than somewhere else , outweigh the costs . |
| 18 | Obviously , if two objects are physically connected they must be at about the same distance from us , and yet many of these Arp associations include objects with redshifts that ‘ ought ’ to place them far apart along the line of sight . |
| 19 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 20 | What I 'd like you to do is put put a rectangle round three words , it does n't matter where they are on on the whole thought pattern , three words that are the highlights what were the three things that were the highlights or the most important thing for you yesterday . |
| 21 | We have seen that the bulk of taxation in Yugoslavia is raised by governments or communities of interest which are outside of the direct control of the federal government . |
| 22 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 23 | Certainly one thing is noticeable Leicester have n't er quite dropped back into the gear they were in in the first half Ron have they ? |
| 24 | New interests came into being which were outside of the established set-up . |
| 25 | It is important that blocks are at about the same level of complexity within one diagram . |
| 26 | It may have been at about the same time that monks were installed in the church of St Edmund at Bury . |
| 27 | Mr for the plaintiff argues for a figure of a hundred and thirty thousand pounds whereas Mr for the defendant submits that the claim is worth between a hundred and fifteen and a hundred and twenty thousand . |
| 28 | What do you think Pegasus Farm is worth on the open market ? ’ |
| 29 | you 've got two , that 's not your , you 've got two national speed limits , you 've got a sixty and a seventy , seventy is for like a dual carriageway and a motorway , sixty is a single carriageway cos it 's only two way traffic |
| 30 | At the beginning of his speech , the Home Secretary went to some lengths to compare what life on this subject was like under a Labour Government in 1979 with what it is like under a Conservative Government now . |