Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] [conj] " 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 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | them two have not been for a while so they 've crossed off so , you have another |
8 | 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 . |
9 | His damp hair was slicked back as if he 'd recently been for a swim or taken a shower . |
10 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it 's over lunch and only then if you 're involved in a takeover bid . |
13 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
14 | 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 ’ . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Golf clubs can rest assured that our members are of a standard as suggested by their handicap certificate and not being confronted with a ‘ worthless piece of paper . ’ |
17 | The company 's predicament and that of its 5,500 employees in the UK are of a kind that would respond to sympathetic treatment intelligently applied by the Government — the kind of assistance , in short , given by a previous Tory administration which nationalised Rolls Royce to save it . |
18 | Most tone-units are of a type that we call simple , and the sort that we call compound are not discussed in this chapter . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Beautifully made and beautifully decorated , Kamares vessels are of a quality and refinement never again to be achieved in the Aegean world . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | For the changes that threaten this country , either from a majority Labour government or one kept in power by the Liberal-Democrats , are of an enormity that still has not sunk in . |
23 | Because most of the lawyers and judges are of an age where they 've considered , or are already , divorced . |
24 | Some of the solutions adopted are of an intricacy that to a British observer seems almost unbelievable . |
25 | They 're worth a bit when they 're like that are n't they ? |
26 | Unless unless you 're worth a bob or a hundred . |
27 | I had , I had five names here , that would give you sixteen , you 're worth an A but I 'm afraid |
28 | Mother-of-so-many said : ‘ You 're of an age and you could do worse . |
29 | what they do , they 're like a leg and |
30 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |