Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broken states I have named are in a condition of near ruin . |
| 2 | The only tackiness I 've discovered was in the two paintings kept pressed together . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of the worst designs I have seen are by architects for themselves . ’ |
| 4 | And the ninth photograph she had taken was of a school . |
| 5 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 6 | Birmingham has a fascinating heritage which has left is with a wealth of attractions for the visitor . |
| 7 | The only error I have detected is in the captioning of a photo of soloists outside Bath Abbey . |
| 8 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 9 | Capitanchik : This particular contract you have signed is with BP . |
| 10 | The only payment she had received was from Charles Briant who had given her a generous bonus for her extra work on his boots . |
| 11 | None of the nursemaids I had engaged were of any use at all . |
| 12 | Clearly there is more to memory than the reproduction of numbers or lists and another distinction which has arisen is between episodic and semantic memory . |
| 13 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 14 | Now lip service has been paid to the length of transport policy in the South East , on off er donkey 's years er in fact an organisation roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Picc was working towards one but we know what happened to that . |
| 15 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
| 16 | About two-thirds of the sacks of refuse had gone , and the pit she had seen was as if it had never been , under a litter of dead leaves where a couple of blackbirds foraged . |
| 17 | This is the stage when the bereaved person often feels that the person who had died is with them in the house , talks to them , appears during the night , etc . |
| 18 | The example I have given is by no means the only one that exists . |
| 19 | The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this . |
| 20 | The entropy we have calculated is for the system only-the system being the reactants and products involved in the combustion of methane gas at 25°C . |
| 21 | It 's so childish of him — any argument he 's got is with the organisers , not me . ’ |
| 22 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 23 | The only other recording I have traced was from the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Ronald Thomas , coupled on EMI with both of the flute concertos and the Sinfonietta No. 3 ( 7/80 — nla ) . |
| 24 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |
| 25 | The address they have selected is in that envelope . |
| 26 | The chance that Britain would work with the French on the new air-launched nuclear missile they have developed is on again , after Mrs Thatcher had all but made up her mind to buy American . |
| 27 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 28 | Most of the information I 've got is about residential homes and that is because Social Work Services Group is an awful lot better at pulling together statistics and putting them out again than the Scottish Home and Health Department . |
| 29 | An inland walk I 've enjoyed is around a five mile route starting from Bosullow Common , south of Morvah , an area rich in prehistoric remains . |
| 30 | The last thing she had wanted was for Luke to make a pass at her . |