Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deeply though a great deal of crime fiction today is rooted in the blueprint detective story , there is now only a small public for such books in their pure form and , I think , there are not so many writers who want to produce them . |
| 2 | Thus , banks suggest that each private key password also be used as an integral part of the encryption algorithm . |
| 3 | The living room inside is lit by the remains of a log fire , collapsing now into ashes . |
| 4 | Spring water only is used for drinking and cooking food . |
| 5 | Tea output worldwide was hit by drought in 1992 , resulting in a shortfall of 130,000 tonnes . |
| 6 | For after 1933 the labour movement internationally was faced with a problem which was to preoccupy it and to change its focus from domestic to international affairs . |
| 7 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 8 | THE intensification of the ambulance dispute yesterday was marked by increasing friction between management and crews , who were accused of putting lives at risk . |
| 9 | This could fit in well with the growing concern with money management now being shown by the National Association of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 10 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 11 | The LIFESPAN configuration file currently being used on the system should be the one pointed to by the logical LIFESPANCONFIGURATION . |
| 12 | The asking price now is rumoured to be in the region of £15m . |
| 13 | The reversal need not be great : as Appendix III puts it , some people 's budgets are ‘ in a delicate balance … . and even a minor fluctuation ( eg. a new child benefit book not being issued on time , the late arrival of a supplementary benefit giro cheque , a child needing a new pair of shoes ) can tip the scales against them . ’ |
| 14 | As the control group , 100 µmol of Krebs-Ringer solution alone was injected into the left gastric artery . |
| 15 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 16 | The large gap between the bassoons and the next woodwind part above is filled by the brass . |
| 17 | The recovery action now being recommended for any stall is to move forwards on the stick to unstall the wings by reducing the angle of attack . |
| 18 | He declared that he would submit the trade agreement for the required congressional approval only after the passage of a more liberal emigration law currently being debated by the Soviet parliament . |
| 19 | The release appeared to confirm speculation that South African agents imprisoned in neighbouring countries , including Zimbabwe and Botswana , were to be involved in the amnesty and repatriation process currently being negotiated by the ANC and the South African government . |
| 20 | Much of this ground has been reclaimed by man 's activities , the peat cover gradually being removed for fuel to leave ‘ skinned land ’ which is now fenced and reseeded . |
| 21 | By 1623 the disafforestment and sale of the woods and wastes of Chippenham and Melksham Forests had been accomplished : Bowood Park alone was reserved to the Crown in that part of Wiltshire . |
| 22 | In November 1717 Byng and his ships returned home , to counter another , far more threatening , invasion plot now being hatched by a far older enemy of England , Spain . |
| 23 | However , bargains were to be had in this depressed time , with a Cessna 0–2A expected to sell in the $85–105,000 range actually being sold for $56,000 . |
| 24 | Guinness Brewing Worldwide is committed to achieving a consistently outstanding financial performance and a competitive edge on quality and customer service in all areas of the business . |
| 25 | The front cover of this brochure says that Guinness Brewing Worldwide is committed to being the world 's foremost brewer . |
| 26 | GUINNESS BREWING WORLDWIDE IS COMMITTED TO BEING THE WORLD 'S FOREMOST BREWER . |
| 27 | A couple of minutes later the night silence outside was broken by the sound of a vehicle , presumably an ambulance , starting up and moving off . |
| 28 | The paper has been drafted in response to the UK National Sustainability Report currently being prepared by the Government . |
| 29 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 30 | A report published by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) says there is an underlying trend of real and sustained improvement in the quality of coastal bathing waters , which appears to be the result of the extensive capital schemes for sewage treatment currently being undertaken by the water companies . |