Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The dressing room was charged with venom , jealousy , spite , and also total and undisciplined panic , which stemmed mainly from Stefan , who had been through most things with Gesner in the course of the various Seasons , but never anything like this ; never before an open confrontation between Gesner and the Direktor in the middle of a performance .
32 And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ?
33 ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers .
34 You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them .
35 A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place .
36 The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’
37 The kind of assistance that governments have offered has usually been through self-help schemes , the giving out of land titles to the inhabitants or offering loans .
38 Our Regional Association has been through difficult times , mainly due to isolation and communication problems .
39 Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education .
40 Such legislation has been through detailed preparation including the publication of draft clauses .
41 Appendix B. Right , Chris has already been through this part of it .
42 Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ?
43 People who have been through this experience will describe how angry they feel with the doctor when having asked , ‘ How long ’ , they are told something like , ‘ We ca n't really say .
44 Anybody been through this experience before ?
45 And the unions had also been through this scene recently .
46 As a result , an Inservice Panel was established in June 1983 , and it has been through this body that project-related INSET development can be traced .
47 Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there .
48 Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening .
49 All we 've been through this evening
50 To date , three cases have been through this process .
51 If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this .
52 Have you actually been through this process at all in one of these meetings .
53 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
54 Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction .
55 It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision .
56 Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell .
57 If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy .
58 The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel .
59 Yeah I ai n't been for blooming ages .
60 Had the recommendation been for industrial action and the crews voted against , I have no doubt Mr Clarke would have applauded the triumph of democracy .
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