Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the uninitiated this may seem surprising and unfair , but to those who have been through the mill the situation is very familiar . |
| 2 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 3 | ‘ The more anonymous I am as an actor the easier it is to make you believe I 'm someone else . ’ |
| 4 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 5 | For the reasons given above , I am of the opinion the judge 's answer to the question posed was correct and I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 6 | The Parish Council are of the opinion the satellite dish requires planning approval and it appears that no application has been made . |
| 7 | but you 're in the water the whole time . |
| 8 | When they 're outside the window every morning ? ’ 'It 's all worth it , ’ the Perm replied . |
| 9 | But while we 're on the subject a dose of hard living might do you the world of good . ’ |
| 10 | You 're on the move every three every three weeks you get to know another group of people . |
| 11 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 12 | He 's only been with the club a few weeks . |
| 13 | But I 've been up the road every day this week , not shopping but just out for a walk , you know ? |
| 14 | I can tell you now it 's going to have some of that salty humour to it , that salty talk , but I am in no way a misogynist . |
| 15 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 16 | He had been in the village the previous evening and I had n't bothered to wait up until he returned . |
| 17 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 18 | Long ago , thousands of years ago perhaps , a rune had been carved in the centre of the broad flat stone , and the faint marks which still remained indicated that the rune had been in the shape the shadows of the Foinmen made at sunset . |
| 19 | While she had been in the shower the bedroom door had drifted open a few more inches , and if Carson were to cross the lounge on the far side of the hallway he 'd probably be able to see her ; but there was still something wrong , and it was obvious that an analysis of her appearance would be pointless . |
| 20 | You have to have been in the karate the same time . |
| 21 | But most of it 's an attack by our own union against what has been in the past the most active members of this union . |
| 22 | She had hardly been in the country a month when she had the privilege of speaking on TV during a midnight service from George Square , Glasgow , on Christmas Eve . |
| 23 | He had been in the boot the first time , and masked on the floor of the back seat the second . |
| 24 | And er so er er I said to my friend , like me pals I said , Well look we we have n't been in the Army a year , so we 've got to be in two more years before it comes our turn our turn to be demobilized , so we just might as well sign up for a couple year , get two months leave and twenty quid , because we shall do that if we do n't . |
| 25 | Showing one 's been in the sun a lot |
| 26 | The Defence Secretary also said that now he had been in the post a year , he was reviewing defence spending priorities to see if they were correct . |
| 27 | Publicans whose premises backed on the harbour were interviewed and , over local radio , people were being asked to come forward if they had been in the neighbourhood the night before , especially those who had used the car-park . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been in the game a long time and you do n't last forever . |
| 29 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 30 | Jefferson has been in the business a long time and is no fool , is he ? ’ |