Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 2 | The examples that Freud talks about are for example er , the Trojan War in early Greek history . |
| 3 | and erm I just think that women are so strong and , and another thing that I find er that is very important , is perhaps there 's women here we should look at why there 's only one female prison in Scotland and about fourteen male lot and including young offenders institutions and er , I mean what is it we are as agenda er just less criminally minded , more controlled , more clever , what , you know we should be teaching men . |
| 4 | My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on . |
| 5 | Er the only formal apology I er have is from Judith , we are of course er as yet still missing er Malcolm and Liz . |
| 6 | Well , er first of all , it 's a smaller er Authority , er the er meetings of the Authority area are of course er going to be in public , just as er always , and er I think probably the key er advantage is going to be the new emphasis that we 'll be able to place on buying health care services . |
| 7 | Er but there are of course h n while we 're on that point there are , I 'm afraid , there are s people who take advantage of Marks and Spencers , erm because they know there 's going to be no problem about having goods exchanged so what they do , they buy something from Marks and Spencers wear it on one evening for , for a party or special occasion |
| 8 | The pigeons are of cause er er er a cause of debate in the city centre some people like pigeons some do n't some say there are far too many pigeons . |
| 9 | As soon as the bell goes you 're in trouble int you ? |
| 10 | So , the runners are under starter 's orders.Between now and polling day attention will shift away from Westminster to the individual seats that the parties have targetted for victory . |
| 11 | Premier League favourites Aston Villa are under Doctor 's orders . |
| 12 | On the other hand , I strongly believe that if people consume a normal , adequate and balanced diet , they should receive almost all the vitamins that they need , unless they are under doctor 's orders . |
| 13 | Punjab had been under president 's rule since May 1987 and its assembly , suspended at that time , had been dissolved in March 1988 [ see p. 36692 for constitutional amendment passed at that time allowing for the continuation of president 's rule for three years ] . |
| 14 | On April 8 state Governor C. Panigrahi invited the leader of the local Congress ( I ) to form a government in Manipur , which had been under president 's rule since Jan. 7 [ see p. 38727 ] . |
| 15 | In any event , if you are within arm 's length , you are too close for optimum speechreading . |
| 16 | And what about ‘ Butter has been in man 's diet for thousands of years , so you can have confidence in it ’ ? |
| 17 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 18 | The texts are from Ulpian 's work on trusts , and the immediate context some constitutions of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 19 | I think Chris and I are are in agreement e about the technical issues here . |
| 20 | Erm I would just like to stress that er again that the structure plan needs to be read as a whole and that there are in fact erm several of the policies in the plan which are certainly encouraging of development , certain forms of development in the countryside . |
| 21 | We are there to fight for people who are not getting equality , who are in fact 52.4% of the population . |
| 22 | But there is often a strong temptation to see things as either/or when they are in fact both/and . |
| 23 | That way it can be dealt with through the departure process and the checks and balances the departure er introduces erm are in place erm to protect local interest . |
| 24 | No , I , I , I , just , just a cover note , I think it 's quite true that this is one of the small steps one can make to make it a little bit more possible for people with dependents to take a full part in local government , and the majority of the people who are excluded at the moment are in practise erm , women with dependent children , but there are many other people including men , and including people with dependent elderly relatives , and I think we need to make it the rule rather than the exception that local government has a carer 's allowance scheme . |
| 25 | So my theory is that while we are in Earth 's shadow and intended to be dreaming , our minds may be wider open than by day . |
| 26 | But if we get , we , it seemed to me I mean Deborah raised it and I think there is a way of doing it , which would be for example erm looking at the agreements , how many schools have got agreements ? |
| 27 | And clearly that would be of benefit er to Road in terms of relieving the pressure from that traffic . |
| 28 | Oh erm I 'm sure er who do you think will perhaps be of benefit erm for me to talk to them as well you know to discuss this with them ? |
| 29 | The main difference between the ‘ Oracles ’ and the Created God is that the former were believed to be of ‘ divine ’ origin , whereas the latter would be of mankind 's own creation , and therefore under human control . |
| 30 | Er trading standards continue to be under pressure er we ought to agree on that er and we I I believe we may not have difficulty er in achieving the additional value of this type of almost on an annual basis if we are short of the trading standards . |