Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 2 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 3 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 4 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 5 | But this is not a fight Mason imagines he can lose and much of the interest tonight will focus on his ability to handle a taller opponent who has been in with better men . |
| 6 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 7 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 8 | IF charities are concerned because sales of their Christmas cards are down on previous years , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 9 | You are in for some surprises . |
| 10 | He suggested that in the days before his election Yeltsin had had to clarify and adjust his policy on a number of key issues , but commented : " If he is playing political games , then perhaps we are in for difficult times . " |
| 11 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 12 | SSP is payable for up to 28 weeks in a PIW , but most periods of sickness are over in three weeks . |
| 13 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 14 | You 're in for four lectures are n't you ? |
| 15 | ‘ The radio says we 're in for heavy showers , ’ Aunt Becky glooms . |
| 16 | Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi . |
| 17 | Now we 're off along some alleys , cutting west till we reach the railway viaduct . |
| 18 | But does this mean that our friends from Dixieland — the Intelligence Service lived south of the river ‘ — are going to give us a hint of what they 're up to these days ? ’ |
| 19 | you know erm daily , just so we know when somebody does appear , if they 're , you know , if we , you know , wanted a chat with them or , you know , to see what they 're up to these days that yeah but I w er yeah yeah . |
| 20 | We 're up to 81 subscribers right now , which is pretty good . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're out of ginger-nut biscuits , ’ she said severely . |
| 22 | And for the disabled , for a short while , you 're back on equal terms with life . |
| 23 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 24 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 25 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 26 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 27 | The fact that IUD users are up to nine times more likely than non-users to contract a sterilising infection is enough to rule it out for large numbers of women , despite it 's reliability as a contraceptive device — if they are aware of the dangers , that is . |
| 28 | The vast majority of these incomplete schools are in rural areas where classes are also large — the teachers ' union COLPROSUMAH claims that in some rural schools there are up to 120 children in a classroom . |
| 29 | These moves would not disgrace a HVS climb were it not for the fact that two sets of in situ threads protect them perfectly : a good testing ground to see if you are up to greater things . |
| 30 | Comparison of present rates of denudation and orogeny allowed Schumm ( 1963a ) to deduce that the production of a planation surface could take between 10 and 110 million years and to show that present rates of orogeny are up to 10 times faster than rates of denudation . |