Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 2 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 3 | ‘ And , Sir Richard , ’ Cranston continued , ‘ you have now been through all the memoranda , documents , household books and accounts in your brother 's possession . |
| 4 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 5 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 6 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 7 | People say that Lee is either precious or lazy ( make up yer minds , f—wits ! ) , but it 's become manifest that these songs are worth all the tons of grief and introspection and the endless re-tuning . |
| 8 | His principle is to maintain the gardens and grounds as they are for all the residents , so that from outside it is not apparent that the building has been divided up . |
| 9 | ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’ |
| 10 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 11 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 12 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 13 | " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . " |
| 14 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 15 | We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish . |
| 16 | Erm we 've feel we 've gone as far as it 's practical to go to meet erm what are after all the genuine needs of genuine needs of our own population . |
| 17 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 18 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 19 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 20 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 21 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 22 | Children 's books today are of such a high standard , they are too luscious to ignore . |
| 23 | in part this reflects the fact that occupational skill levels are of such a low order that they present no real requirement for educational preparation . |
| 24 | From a subjective viewpoint , these differences do not seem to depend on linguistically-represented concepts , and moreover are of such a general character that it is implausible to ascribe them uniquely to human perceivers . |
| 25 | The changes identified by the Tomlinson report are of such a magnitude and involve so great a culture change that the planning and decision making will need to be made with a great deal of care and integration . |
| 26 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 27 | a single prostitute who provides services in private premises to one client at a time without spectators is guilty of the common law offence of keeping a disorderly house if it is proved that the services provided are of such a character and are conducted in such a manner … that their provision amounts to an outrage of public decency or is otherwise calculated to harm the public interest to such an extent as to call for condemnation and punishment . |
| 28 | We consider for the moment only the case where His non-negative and D is positive , and assume they are of such a size that overflow does not occur ( see problem 2.4 ) . |
| 29 | No particular form of words is necessary to create a floating charge ; it suffices if the intention is shown ( a ) to impose a charge on assets both present and future , ( b ) the assets are of such a nature that they would be changing in the ordinary course of the company 's business , and ( c ) the company is free to continue to deal with the assets in the ordinary course of its business . |
| 30 | Where a product is entirely integrated within the TNC or its captive suppliers ' networks , or where the intermediate components or materials used are of such a specialized nature that there are simply no available suppliers outside the existing TNC network , then backward linkages are literally forbidden by the logic of global production . |