Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that basis , Mr Williamson , and on the basis that you propose and acknowledge others do not accept that this new settlement should at least in this plan period be for about fourteen hundred dwellings , what level of employment land provision can be taken out of the Greater York figure and assumed to be in the new settlement ? |
| 2 | It is compounded when several people are involved in the aggravated taking of a vehicle — my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden ( Mr. Mills ) said that such people were not content with being in a car but wanted to be in the boot as well — and by the speed and lethal power of the Cosworths and other vehicles which they steal . |
| 3 | He was facing the window and seemed to be in a state of dreamy somnolence . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's has abandoned a two-year struggle to sell the Sevso Treasure of late Roman silver ( see The Art Newspaper , No.11 , October 1991 , p.1 ) belonging to the Marquess of Northampton Settlement and estimated to be worth £40 million . |
| 5 | He considered good personal relationships between teacher and taught to be of paramount importance : the core , around which all other aspects of Basil 's teaching philosophy fitted into place . |
| 6 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 7 | At their wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve , 1873 , John took embarrassing matters into his own hands and nominated a Thomas Tiller as his father and claimed to be of full age . |
| 8 | For all that , the way in which he was publicly rebuked by Peter May , the chairman of Selectors , after returning home , and appointed only for the first Test against India , annoyed many people by its insensitivity and seemed to be about as productive as the shooting of Admiral Byng on his quarterdeck . |
| 9 | The sequences around both the initiation and termination regions of each clone was determined by the di-deoxy method and confirmed to be in frame with the N-terminal 6-His sequence of pET15b . |
| 10 | Milk traffic was a big revenue earner and continued to be until around 1950 . |
| 11 | Kernaghan suffered the agony or relegation and looked to be on the way out of Ayresome Park when he joined Charlton Athletic on loan last season . |
| 12 | Maidstone had the best of the early exchanges but the Seasiders were under little real threat and seemed to be on course for at least a draw . |
| 13 | Today , the Daily Mirror reveals the contents of a letter written on what appears to be Buckingham Palace notepaper and said to be from one official to another . |
| 14 | Since the Queen was more spiderlike than humanoid in form , ‘ she ’ could safely be shown in more detail and had to be for the climactic battle , Queen versus Ripley plus power loader . |
| 15 | The Commission refused to characterise the demilitarisation as an international servitude , but held that a territorial arrangement made in the general European public interest and intended to be of long duration , would have this objective effect . |