Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been through no fault of local authorities , according to Noel Towe of the Local Government Drugs Forum . |
| 2 | Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation . |
| 3 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 4 | Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports . |
| 5 | Amstral has recently been through a combination of management buyouts and takeovers , including the acquisition of Crab Advanced Technologies ' sales and marketing division , and now goes by the name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd . |
| 6 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
| 7 | Right now the relationship 's good ; he 's like an old friend , we 've been through a lot of shit together . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been through a lot of stuff because of it . |
| 9 | Geraldine had lost both her parents the year before , so we 've been through a lot of the same feelings . |
| 10 | " We 've been through a lot of danger , " he said . |
| 11 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 12 | Not only is that generally helpful in being a recently approved structure plan that 's been through the Secretary of State 's hands , but of course it is also part of this region . |
| 13 | Dr Williams has been through the ranks of the order and now holds the post of County Surgeon for County Durham . |
| 14 | But Britain has already been through the ordeal of restructuring needed to meet the fierce competition from Asia and , increasingly , the Third World . |
| 15 | The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes . |
| 16 | He had been through the Night of Power . |
| 17 | Until now , the only speaking Barbara has managed to do has been through the mouth of her dog Millie by way of a book written in the pet 's name . |
| 18 | Here the approach has been through the use of APL ( pioneered originally in the Derby factories in the mid 705 ) . |
| 19 | This has been through the use of Repertory Grid Technique which , as a practical application of construct theory has been defined as , ‘ Any form of sorting task which allows for the assessment of relationships … in matrix form ’ ( Bannister and Mair , 1968 , p. 136 ) . |
| 20 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |
| 21 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 22 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 23 | In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives , the pickers have been through the contents of the bins . |
| 24 | She would have recovered some of her old high spirits if it had not been for a bout of measles and turning more and more to alcohol . |
| 25 | But we had nobody been for a couple of times , now . |
| 26 | It was brought home to Charles for the first time how much of a strain the last weeks must have been for a girl of her age . |
| 27 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
| 28 | One of the important trends in recent years initiated in this country by John Hodgson ( 1972 , 1973 , 1975 ) has been for a number of drama specialists to undertake an editorial role in an attempt to raise the standard of literature on our subject . |
| 29 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 30 | Fortune having smiled on them , and I mean if it had n't been for a lump of expanded foam out of one of the life boats that had blown up at , if it had n't come floating past me , I mean I would have been a goner as well , but I got hold of that . |