Example sentences of "be [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret had not been through anything like the rebellion her sister had known , but they both shared a great sense of elation . |
| 2 | Cause : Irritation — but this is just as likely to be from something in the water as from flukes or protozoan parasites . |
| 3 | Note first , however , that categories being the invention of critics and books being the creation of writers , seldom will any of these sub-genres of crime fiction be without something of the others in it . |
| 4 | Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind . |
| 5 | Think of the bad example you are to anyone on the list for surgery . |
| 6 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 7 | ‘ Good taste ’ , ingenuity , intelligence , and energy — the sharply honed attributes of the would-be successful survivor — all were as nought in the absence of one other ingredient : hard cash , and lots of it . |
| 8 | The Cross-Rail and channel tunnel high speed link are at nothing like the state of preparedness of Jubilee Line , that 's going ahead now after a lot of work , er th it it will not be the case er it that you can do either of those very quickly , Cross-Rail 's only just started going through the House of Commons . |
| 9 | In short , the Regional Council and the District Council are at one on the matters referred to . |
| 10 | And then we have the third issue which is site selection and here they are at one with the local communities when they say this particular er selected site has been driven by economic consideration and not environmental consideration . |
| 11 | When it comes , it is worth everything in the world . |
| 12 | The tendency is for everyone in the team to touch the ball as it goes through and to shuffle back each time someone has completed their turn . |
| 13 | To whom in particular the blame for this disaster should be attributed , it is for someone in the ministry with all the facts at their fingertips to determine . |
| 14 | It 's not just the better the members that we 've got working in the Health Service , it 's about everybody in the room and everybody in the country who wants to use it and we 've got ta get it a bi a bit higher up on the agenda at this union and I hope Mick , that you can give us the confidence and give us the commitment , that that 's what we 're gon na get from this union . |
| 15 | They see a car coming from the direction they 've been told , and remember , it 's after one in the morning . |
| 16 | The one that killed MacQuillan is like none of the others , neither is the one from the pond . |
| 17 | White claims the hone is from something like the modern Pacific white-sided dolphin . |
| 18 | Besides , Marco is in something of the position of Anthony Hope 's Rassendyll : he is a representative , the royal candidate , as well as a boy of twelve , and we need to feel that he stands a little apart from the stance of an ordinary boy-hero . |
| 19 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 20 | I mean I 'm not , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not one of these formal you know want 's to everything but the idea of this is that we go we get it off the ground and then the management committee take over and run it , it will hopefully have two parish representatives , wo n't be overcommitted by being you know constantly hectored and badgered by people saying this is your ground . |
| 21 | It is half-past one in the morning . |
| 22 | Their private parts were firmly jammed in the wringer and all it needed was for somebody to the rescue . |
| 23 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 24 | The market was pleasantly stunned by the deal , since no-one had realised that the stake was worth anything like the sum agreed . |
| 25 | But it was as nothing to the humiliation which the unions would pour on his government in the last two years of its term . |
| 26 | You know her , Betty , the lively one ; she was into everythin' in the yard here . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When we were real little , my Dad was into anything from The Chieftains to Sly & The Family Stone , to Joe Cocker , to Buffalo Springfield ; there were so many different things that he loved . |
| 28 | The following was from someone on the League Of Ireland soccer list . |
| 29 | Gloucester 's receiver in East Anglia and the east midlands , Richard Pole , was from none of the duke 's land . |
| 30 | Gloucester 's receiver in East Anglia and the east midlands , Richard Pole , was from none of the duke 's land . |