Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE tone to use is with the bass selector switched in : the resulting mellow tone is classic , full-bodied jazz . |
| 2 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
| 3 | Guideline 1 : The best time to start is at the very beginning |
| 4 | Constructionally , I did n't make the tables easy for myself , but the detailing seems to have been worth the extra time spent . |
| 5 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 6 | There now occurred something , that in retrospect , I believe to have been of the greatest significance to this journey . |
| 7 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 8 | The Kitchings ' workplace which is believed to have been on the grassed wasteland in front of North Road museum became known as Hopetown Foundry . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 10 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's supposed to have been at the Versorelli Institute in Geneva from the fourth to the fourteenth of November . |
| 12 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 13 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 14 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 15 | Another record that would require a Herculean effort by any contender and a large amount of time and money to break is in the underestimated art of domino tumbling . |
| 16 | The opportunity you really want to take is on the other side of that wall and it will remain there until you manage to puncture your own pomposity . |
| 17 | Mr McCormick submitted that if any one of the mother 's reasons was possibly valid then it could not be said that the mother 's refusal to consent was outside the reasonable band . |