Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris auctioneer Jacques Tajan , partner in France 's largest auction company Ader Tajan , is facing further staff redundancies after being forced to take out a mortgage on his FFr40 million premises on rue Favart as security on bank loans . |
| 2 | These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome . |
| 3 | Only by having fought every battle and won can we be free from the constraints of being used to act out the wheel of life and be truly ourselves . |
| 4 | In his press release the Secretary of State says : ’ Many of the new measures are designed to protect children from being influenced to take up the deadly habit of smoking . ’ |
| 5 | Frightened by events in Eastern Europe , Vietnam 's ageing leaders appear to be trying to shore up the authority of the party by cutting down the independence of an already tightly-regulated press . |
| 6 | The risk , however , is that come the day of dispute adequate proof of the business practices will be difficult if not impossible to assemble and that the default provisions of the Partnership Act ( see below ) will have to be applied to sort out the problem . |
| 7 | It is understood that the Bank of England backed higher rates to protect the pound but was less convinced that they needed to be raised to cool down the economy any further . |
| 8 | Particular institutions were to be authorized to carry out the ‘ main validation procedures ’ leading to the Council 's approval of courses in their ‘ well established subject areas ’ , with their freedom to organize their affairs in this way being subject to a quinquennial review : |
| 9 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 10 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 11 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 12 | A great deal of work now needs to be done to work out the details of the new arrangements . |
| 13 | Whoever had washed up last night had n't cleaned the cooker , there was no light-bulb in the one cell in the basement and someone had had to be dispatched to wake up the ironmonger because nobody could find a spare . |
| 14 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 15 | The mackintoshes were still missing , however , and an outside stocktaker was to be appointed to draw up an annual inventory of all stocks of the institution . |
| 16 | Traditional assumptions about professional boundaries and working practices will have to be challenged to bring about a more cost-effective deployment of trained staff . |
| 17 | Now bills for other bands from next April will have to be increased to make up the shortfall , says the Local Government Information Unit . |
| 18 | This was to be jointly owned by twelve area distribution companies , which were to be created to take on the distribution role of the existing twelve area boards . |
| 19 | This option requires the name of the package , the name of the LIFESPAN user to be designated to carry out the approval , and the date by which the approval decision is required . |
| 20 | A window and a section of wall had to be removed to take out the body and twenty men were needed to lower the coffin into his grave in St. Martin 's Churchyard , where his tombstone states ‘ in personal greatness [ he ] had no competitor ’ . |
| 21 | Salmond called on Sept. 27 for a referendum to be held setting out the choices for Scotland as full independence within the European Communities , limited self-government or continuing with the constitutional status quo . |
| 22 | When the veins of coal were mined , pillars of coal had to be left to hold up the roof of the mine , rather like the pillars in a multistorey car park . |
| 23 | Stand-by or supply teachers are needed if community language teachers are to be released to carry out the necessary development work . |
| 24 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 25 | The illusion soon faded , and an administration of dull Bavarians had to be imported to sort out the Greeks ' affairs for them . |
| 26 | Home income schemes involved using funds obtained via a mortgage to be re-invested to pay off the loan and provide additional income . |
| 27 | For dry lining , the plasterboards used are the type with tapered edges which allow a reinforcing tape and filler to be used to finish off the joint flush with the board surface . |
| 28 | Though it is meant to be used to keep out the cold , we had brought six of them to cover the tents and reflect away the sun 's heat , and to signal for help if needed . |
| 29 | The problem each system faced was that the matching process created a large number of partial solutions , and various heuristics had to be used to cut down the search space . |
| 30 | Even then she had found it difficult to get up in the morning , had begged and pleaded to be allowed to lie in a little longer , had gone back to sleep more often than not , the forerunner , Cecilia supposed , of her present practice of often lying in bed till noon . |