Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus has been through the agony in the garden he 's been arrested he 's been abandoned by his apostles he 's been through a trial and he has actually been through the crucifixion and he 's been buried in the tomb . |
| 2 | ‘ Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans have been through a lot and seen a lot of players come and go . |
| 3 | The poor darling had been through a lot and could n't be expected to … well , she was sure Melissa would understand how he must be feeling . |
| 4 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |
| 5 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 6 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 7 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
| 8 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 9 | Convince them you are worth a look and , almost out of the blue , you might end up with 300 words in Kerrang or Echoes or the NME . |
| 10 | Section 27 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , adding to the text in the CEA at s.6(1) , states that ‘ it is immaterial for the purposes of this subsection how many removes there are between a copy and the original ’ . |
| 11 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 12 | The convergence of geopolitical events , of the consequences of the technology that has been fermenting in the post-war years , of new ideologies , of government processes are of a scale and significance unprecedented for half a century . |
| 13 | Beautifully made and beautifully decorated , Kamares vessels are of a quality and refinement never again to be achieved in the Aegean world . |
| 14 | We shall begin to see in this and the next five chapters that the evils and problems of modernity are of an intensity and subtlety unimaginable a mere two hundred years ago . |
| 15 | Unless unless you 're worth a bob or a hundred . |
| 16 | I had , I had five names here , that would give you sixteen , you 're worth an A but I 'm afraid |
| 17 | Mother-of-so-many said : ‘ You 're of an age and you could do worse . |
| 18 | what they do , they 're like a leg and |
| 19 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
| 20 | If you 're not doing it like that and you 're in a conversation or atmosphere in the room , when I find it , this little gadget is wonderful , this will pick up for a long way , this will pick up the dogs next door , if there was no other noise in this room . |
| 21 | We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government . |
| 22 | What a waste of time , we all know that the county council is the the highway authority and is fully responsible for traffic management , we 're in a minority and to set up a working party is a complete waste of time . . |
| 23 | Now what is the point of saving money if you 're in a job and you 're worried about being made redundant when , if you become redundant you are ineligible for housing benefit because you 've been saving money . |
| 24 | Yeah , like somebody else , like , you 're walking down the street , like , you 're in a house and , and you check it for a minute and you 're like |
| 25 | What a bloody disgrace when you 're in a democracy and they want minimum |
| 26 | But it 's only when they 're in a crowd but course , among that crowd are some that are bad and some that are good get carried along with them , that 's |
| 27 | But if it 's in space , you 're in a spaceship and then you throw your pen out through the window . |
| 28 | Or you know you 're in a meeting and the chairman what 's your opinion John on this where you what do you think about this ? |
| 29 | If you 're in an organization and you 're leader , you , you have to encourage them . |
| 30 | I think having a car you do make more unnecessary journeys — when you 're on a bike or public transport you really have to plan well ahead . |