Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
2 | I suspect , though , there can be no doubt about which side she would have been on in the public debate about fox-hunting prompted by last week 's Private Member 's Bill . |
3 | I said three flights that I 've been on in the last fortnight . |
4 | You definitely are on along the right lines . |
5 | you are on to a good thing , you 'll end up with knitteds that suit you because they fit . |
6 | Many directors who take dividends in lieu of salary may think they are on to a good thing . |
7 | Judging by the trade and the spirited bidding , Scotland 's hill farmers now know that they are on to a good thing . |
8 | ‘ We have been down to the bare bones before . |
9 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
10 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
11 | Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’ |
12 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
13 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
14 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
15 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
16 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
17 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
18 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
19 | A third are down to the thermal imaging capability . |
20 | All that has long since changed and , while talent can still win the day , both fields are down to the hard graft of making money . |
21 | At the time of this Report , knitters ' order intake volumes for Autumn 1993 are down on the previous year , in part as retailers delay ordering and in part reflecting recessionary conditions in key export markets in Europe and Japan . |
22 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
23 | Instead of presenting a strong , clear answer to this misconception , many Christians show that their defences are down at the very place where modern unbelief is most devastating . |
24 | Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists . |
25 | Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists . |
26 | It 's nice to have new owners who do n't think we are down among the dead men . ’ |
27 | ‘ We are in for a long afternoon , ’ he said cheerfully . |
28 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |
29 | If you can swallow the unlikely nature of the killer 's powers , then you are in for a good rough ride down a murky road . |
30 | Thus we are in for a prolonged battle to win over public opinion . |