Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem that the movement just discernible towards " spirituality " would be wholly to the benefit of religion , yet it is not necessarily so . |
| 2 | So I must be somewhere on the edge of — of Steel City . |
| 3 | The weather was beautiful and those who were fortunate to know that his special was operating and were able to be somewhere along the route were fortunate to share a most attractive experience . |
| 4 | Seems to be somewhere along the road or otherwise your gon na get nowhere nobody . |
| 5 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 6 | But then it was this I thought any minute it 's gon na be Somewhere over the Rainbow . |
| 7 | You ca n't do that , because unless everyone is identical , the average will always be somewhere around the middle . |
| 8 | He had n't been dead for very long — my earlier estimate of around six hours will be somewhere near the mark . |
| 9 | Many pitched their suggested figure at a level considered to be somewhere near the price of an average house mortgage . |
| 10 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 11 | You must have guessed I 'd be somewhere in the hotel . ’ |
| 12 | The county council would appear to be somewhere in the middle , based on the range of views that have been submitted to this E I P . |
| 13 | The county council appear to be somewhere in the middle , er at around forty one thousand er two hundred dwellings . |
| 14 | There should really be somewhere in the building a place which tells you who is in the building at what times . |
| 15 | It was in keeping with the determination of the man , and he 'd probably only held off because those bobbies had to be somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 16 | He must be somewhere in the district . ’ |
| 17 | Prices vary enormously for group holidays but a typical price would be somewhere in the region of £25 per person per day . |
| 18 | Unfortunately I am unable to give you a firm price for the software as we have not yet completed the development stage , but it will be somewhere in the region of 65 . |
| 19 | So what we say is that if you took all of our products all our ads they would be somewhere in the region of six hundred pounds . |
| 20 | would be somewhere in the region of a hundred and fifteen pounds . |
| 21 | The telephone number would be somewhere in the house and in the morning Alain would be at his office and not likely to answer the phone . |
| 22 | I ca n't think where well it must be somewhere in the office . |
| 23 | I suppose it must be somewhere in the flat … ’ |
| 24 | The damage seemed to be mostly at the back . |
| 25 | Fenella 's complaints continued to be mostly about the way he treated her on stage . |
| 26 | This slightly understates the true cost of credit union lending for their members , as credit unions can work only if their members save as well as borrow , and the interest paid to members on savings with the unions ( though at the moment tax-free ) may be rather below the interest they could get from other institutions . |
| 27 | Closer to home we have to decide whether , for example , to recognise that an increase in food prices imposed as a result of welfare standards demanded by the middle classes would be rather like the poll tax . |
| 28 | If this is done , the tyres should be right on the tip and not half on the ground , otherwise if the glider does move , the tip will slide out from under the tyre and be freed . |
| 29 | Most chairmen remained implacably opposed to any rethinking of their basic commercial philosophy as a result of the limited investigations which were possible , and Schiller 's results were deliberately and systematically suppressed , since they showed the outside critics to be right on the space heating load . |
| 30 | He may well be right on the evidence she thought , but he 's rather too glad he 's got something on Wheeler at last . |