Example sentences of "be [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 2 | There is one other point I 'd just like because yo you 've been on about Labour controlled Councils . |
| 3 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 5 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 6 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 7 | New works by her are on at American Fine Arts from 6 to 27 March ) while Michael St John , also smitten with folks from ‘ toon town , paints cartoon characters in the act of doing double takes against vast white backgrounds ( at Amy Lipton until the end of the month ) . |
| 8 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 9 | The lights are on for twelve hours a day , and filtration is by two Fluval 4s . |
| 10 | Lighting is by a 20W Triton and a 20W Gro-lux and these are on for ten hours a day . |
| 11 | Lights are on in some of the windows as milkmen and postmen swallow mugs of hot tea . |
| 12 | At Reitzel , Emily Chang 's newest abstractions are on until 30 May and at June Kelly there are recent works by Edwin Rudz ( 15 May–23 June ) . |
| 13 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 14 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 15 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 16 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 17 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 18 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |
| 19 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 20 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 21 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 22 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 23 | But this is not a fight Mason imagines he can lose and much of the interest tonight will focus on his ability to handle a taller opponent who has been in with better men . |
| 24 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 25 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 26 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 27 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 28 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 29 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 30 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |