Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 2 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 3 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 4 | Crime Squad officers had quickly been on to the address in Wiltshire Lane . |
| 5 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 6 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 7 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 8 | And the programmes that are on during the day , but erm this sort of thing is slightly more important I feel . |
| 9 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 10 | I do n't want to turn round cos the lights are on at the moment . |
| 11 | I think we are on to a loser with this one , but good luck … |
| 12 | All I can say on that is that , as regards the delivery of patient care in the areas from which we have received trust applications , we are on to a winner . |
| 13 | With our high standard of food and a quality presentation , we are on to a winner and the school has been very impressed so far . ’ |
| 14 | If er , scientists and his team works on a , or think they are on to a discovery or something that needs researching , can get , the necessary funding , office , or firms that they benefit , say this in the previous paragraph , that 's fine , but to concentrate on topics which are I do n't think that happens . |
| 15 | No we 're not putting any more films on Aaron cartoons are on in a minute |
| 16 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 17 | It would have been down to the Academy to appoint the next ruler of the Seven Planets . |
| 18 | I 've just been down to the grubber . |
| 19 | That must have been down to the policeman . |
| 20 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't been down to the sea yet . |
| 22 | Adam said , ‘ I have n't been down to the cottage in an age . |
| 23 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
| 24 | Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast . |
| 25 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just been down to the market . |
| 27 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 28 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 29 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 30 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |