Example sentences of "be [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've been through it a dozen , twenty times already . |
| 2 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 3 | When Thompson asks about the emergence of classes he enquires into the choices and intentions of individuals , which are for him a crucial kind of evidence , and sees the process of class formation as one of self-making . |
| 4 | You have been with her a long time . ’ |
| 5 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 6 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
| 7 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 8 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 9 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , sometimes you create this illusion for yourself , because you 've been with it a certain number of hours , but it can also go the other way : you might think something 's horrible and then come in the next day and realise it 's actually pretty good . |
| 11 | And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too . |
| 12 | The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae , published in various centres between 1605 and 1610 when he was in the service of the Brunswick court at Wolfenbuttel , are in themselves an astonishing monument of skill and industry . |
| 13 | New breed : from The Blue Lily Strip Search : Cleveland Art Gallery , Middlesbrough COMICS may be for me a closed book . |
| 14 | His language , so familiar and so foreign , will always be for me an acquired speech . |
| 15 | With difficulty she repressed comments on the writer 's own linguistic proficiency , and how in her view it disabled him from judging Walter 's scholastic achievements ; with difficulty , too , she refrained from rebutting the idea that she was not getting any younger , for that was precisely what she felt she was getting , these days ; and she ended with best wishes for the future , mentally hoping it would not be for him a long one . |
| 16 | Being human there can be for us no other benchmark with which to operate . |
| 17 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 18 | The earth upon which God has placed us should be for us a special trust from one generation to another . |
| 19 | He found that the rooms next door were occupied by Selwyn Lloyd , whom he discovered to be like himself a strong Liberal and with whom he was therefore soon friends . |
| 20 | He 'll be with us a few days . |
| 21 | Since a staggering degree of behavioural complexity can be generated by a set of individually simple subroutines , mere complexity of behaviour can not be in itself a trustworthy guide to intelligence . |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , the obstacle is of such a kind as to jeopardize the integration of the market , it may seriously be doubted whether it is still proportionate to be in itself the legitimate objective pursued by the measure . |
| 23 | And every time the Sun shall display His Rising Light , It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day ; And when he sets , a new Nuptial-Night , |
| 24 | The absence of a market rate of interest will obviously be a disincentive to lending but the law deals with this too : ‘ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates … thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : But thou shalt … surely lend him sufficient for his need , in that which he wanteth ’ ( Deut. 15:7–8 ) . |
| 25 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 26 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 27 | ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses . |
| 28 | Those were for us a real burden . |
| 29 | However , if each enterprise is a different company , each company being in itself a separate and distinct legal entity and thus taxed separately , the balancing of profit and loss between the enterprises so as to minimize overall tax liability can not be achieved . |
| 30 | In the period leading up to and immediately following the introduction of the National Curriculum , such qualitative gains were in themselves an essential resource . |