Example sentences of "[vb -s] and [pron] [be] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rehearsals are over , the audience arrives and it 's very nearly the moment of truth for David and Fiona from Wiltshire about to play Blockbusters . |
| 2 | Rehearsals are over , the audience arrives and it 's very nearly the moment of truth for David and Fiona from Wiltshire about to play Blockbusters . |
| 3 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 4 | The relentless drive to attract more and more foreign investment ( high tech by preference , but practically any would do ) that characterized the 1980s continues and there are now very few countries anywhere in the world that do not have some incentives to attract FDI . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the partners dies and it 's often very difficult for the one left alone with the big garden , particularly if they do n't drive . ’ |
| 6 | She sits there she goes and she stops and you 're just about to go to sleep and she goes so loud ! |