Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huts are predominantly in valleys near rivers , and invariably the local area was swarming with mosquitos . |
| 2 | I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing . |
| 3 | FILMS about the human sex act are rather like books on the same subject . |
| 4 | The similarities , however , are mostly in matters of device ( the piano arpeggios in the first movement Coda , for example , and the six-eight ending of the Rondo , tragic in Mozart , brilliant in Beethoven ) . |
| 5 | Comics are mostly by men with a masculine audience in mind . |
| 6 | Dr Gordon Moore , Intel chairman , said : ‘ We are badly in need of extra systems capacity and this part of the project will go ahead extremely rapidly . ’ |
| 7 | And , while they are badly in need of such innovations as a massive reafforestation programme , desalination facilities , an organised fishing industry , means to exploit their few mineral resources , and perhaps even tourism , they will not give up easily their island heritage . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is here above all that the contemporary ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts who slap down ‘ permissiveness , as a postwar invention are badly in need of a history lesson . |
| 9 | And my teeth are in bad , all my teeth are badly in need of repair . |
| 10 | This small herd of 40 or 50 animals , though enclosed , still has the freedom of 135ha of land and the animals are rarely in contact with humans ; they live as a wild herd and exhibit many interesting behaviour patterns , which have been studied in the past by famous artists and very recently by Cambridge zoologist Stephen Hall , who has published his observations . |
| 11 | Members of the general public usually only respond and react to media content : they are rarely in control of media work . |
| 12 | Hole have been right up front with the anger thanks to newly pregnant Mrs Cobain , Courtney Love . |
| 13 | We 've both been rather like hermits since … ’ |
| 14 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 15 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 16 | When people fall short of their standards , and are thereby in breach of their injunctions , somewhere inside they start to feel badly about themselves , and to begin to doubt their worth and acceptability . |
| 17 | Despite differences of emphasis between different unions , union policies have been overwhelmingly in favour of technological change , while at the same time seeking increased involvement in the process of change to " maximise the benefits and minimise the costs " of such changes . |
| 18 | The latter said ‘ We are wholly in favour of a move away from E2L provision being made on a withdrawal basis , whether in language centres or separate units within schools . |
| 19 | It will be noted that the children had already been effectively in care on a voluntary basis for the previous six months . |
| 20 | In contrast , school-age children are most at risk to hazards in the outdoors environment , particularly in the roads and in the school playground . |
| 21 | The Employment Training Programme , set up in 1988 to help the long-term unemployed , gives a low priority to workers over the age of 54 who are regarded as non-mainstream ( indeed those over 60 are not eligible to participate ) , even though it is older workers who are most at risk of experiencing long-term unemployment . |
| 22 | However , contrary to popular myth , it is n't heroin injectors who are most at risk of contracting HIV . |
| 23 | The challenge is to identify at an early stage those who are most at risk of developing serious complications so that appropriate treatment may be given . |
| 24 | Within the elderly population , it is the very old ( i.e. those aged over 80 ) , women , those living alone , those from manual occupations and the disabled who are most at risk of experiencing poverty in later life ( Victor 1989a ) . |
| 25 | 4 Identify and explain which patients are most at risk of pressure sore development . |
| 26 | Spenser , or the inheritors of his estate , are most at risk of catching the same savage disease . |
| 27 | They are most at risk along our roads where the average family car can deposit a pound of lead ( 454g ) per year out of the exhaust pipe . |
| 28 | The soft and acid water areas of Scotland , and north-west England are most at risk from lead , and the East Anglian and Staffordshire areas from nitrates . |
| 29 | As children are those that are most at risk from impact by vehicles in housing areas , any search for safer streets should focus principally on them ( Figure 2.5 ) . |
| 30 | Although it is probable that the same applies to established onshore centres , the fact is that it is the offshore centres , especially those in the Caribbean , that are most at risk from drugs money . |