Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children — aged between four weeks and six years — had all been given the drug while under intensive care , a report in yesterday 's British Medical Journal revealed . |
| 2 | Maybe we are getting the business because of the recession : rather than doing new things , people want to sort out what is wrong with the old ones . ’ |
| 3 | Sa so , in time you hope to get sufficiently accepted erm to be told the truth or in fact , a bit nearer the truth . |
| 4 | The problems I have to resolve under this heading are not made any easier by uncertainty , even in the short term future , as to who will be doing the caring and at what stages changes to the present regime will take place . |
| 5 | Against this has to be set the fact that in times of high inflation the real value of company debt diminishes over time . |
| 6 | Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) . |
| 7 | Our first object must be to antagonize the poison and at the same time uphold his powers . |
| 8 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 9 | I am making the extension because of the pressure from general practitioners who have asked me to extend the list size . |
| 10 | It would therefore follow that unless Molla Yegan were using the title though in fact an ex-kadi , he must have become kadi again in the years alter returning with Molla Gurani . |
| 11 | While the prosecution case is being presented the decision as to what course to take in these circumstances remains with counsel . |
| 12 | Earlier we were discussing the fact that at some stages of life we are , unconsciously at least , expecting the imminent demise of someone we love , as in the case of a very elderly parent . |
| 13 | In 1834 Playne and Smith were working the mill and in that year , with sometimes inconsistent water supplies and the need to improve efficiency , the engine house was built and a beam engine installed . |
| 14 | In any starting position , when the basis for change has been created the decision as to which stage should be contemplated is the key one . |
| 15 | They would have been chewing the carpet but for the fact that the floor was concrete . |
| 16 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives . |
| 17 | Insignia Solutions Ltd , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , is reminding the world that in the early days of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , all anyone will be able to use in it is Insignia 's SoftPC — integrated within NT to provide the MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows emulation environment that must suffice for almost all users until 32-bit applications come along — in the version of NT that supports the R-series and Alpha chips , Insignia emulates the iAPX-86 CPU and other hardware including graphics boards , disk controllers and floppy disk drives . |
| 18 | Dr Greenaway used The British Deaf News for making his own views known : " We do not intend to repeat yet once again all the arguments for and against the retention of the word " dumb " , he wrote in February 1970 ; " what is important , however , is to emphasise the fact that in the mind of the general public and even more completely in the minds of modem generations of deaf boys and girls the word " dumb " is out . |
| 19 | Tom Jones is topping the bill and among others , Joe Longthorne is guesting . |
| 20 | The American owned company is mothballing the plant and at the moment do n't have to repay the millions of pounds of grant aid its received . |
| 21 | One of them is called the Alamo and in 1836 became one of the shrines , not only of Texan history , but of the history of the United States . |
| 22 | because it is the creation of wealth that creates employment , not in the thing that is creating the wealth but in other things . |
| 23 | My preference , especially with a menagerie fleet and a relatively long line , is to approach the line as in Diagram 3 . |
| 24 | Buckinghamshire is monitoring the process and in 1987 Audrey Simpson reported : |
| 25 | ‘ This is to ignore the fact that in the administration of justice in this country , the authority of any judicial pronouncement depends not upon the personal authority of the judge concerned , but upon the capacity in which he gives a decision or expresses an opinion . |
| 26 | When Wittgenstein says that the linguistic expression is a substitute for the natural expression , and that there is no sharp line between the linguistic and the natural expression of a feeling , he is attacking the notion that in the relation between saying ‘ It hurts ’ and being in pain there must be a justifying element of reflecting on how one feels ( a ‘ ground ’ for the utterance ) , an element which does n't come into the relation between moaning and being in pain . |
| 27 | Dawn 's missing the football because of the final of the Grand Prix . |
| 28 | It was the commune that was to own the land and to be responsible for all peasant obligations , including the payment of redemption dues . |
| 29 | Prima facie their intention was to immobilise the ship and in so doing to interfere with the performance by the owners of their contract or contracts of carriage . ’ |
| 30 | Mrs. Fairfax had seemed more interested in who was attending the school than in what was being taught . |