Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is again referring to the needless deaths of youths and Owen 's emotional feelings for the subject having been through it all himself . |
| 2 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 3 | The most common way for the virus to spread is through unprotected sexual intercourse between two people , one of whom is infected . |
| 4 | Negotiations for the sale have been in progress since Mr Hern left Random House last August , with agreement reached before Christmas , but the legalities consumed several more months . |
| 5 | The only way in which she has made any reference to what happened during the night has been in the form of two pictures . |
| 6 | The entire replica fleet aboard the carrier flown was from the deck into the rising sun of the east in some of the most visually stunning scenes of the film . |
| 7 | The government was well aware that the very survival of the church had been in no small degree due to the coherence and discipline imparted by the episcopate . |
| 8 | Certainly the growth of the church has been in part due to the excellence of its leadership . |
| 9 | The implications of family life and upbringing in the sexual development of the individual have been in the forefront of considerations throughout this book . |
| 10 | He had filled his pockets with stones , but the drama of the landscape had been beyond his understanding . |
| 11 | Thirdly , some of the legislation has been on the statute books for a considerable time , perhaps long after the original and primary intention of the law had been forgotten , e.g. the Vagrancy Acts of 1824 and 1838 . |
| 12 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
| 13 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 14 | In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane . |
| 15 | If on the other hand the latest version of the module had been in state 15 ( above the state inheritance boundary ) then a new unapproved version of the module would not inherit state and would enter state 10 ( the inheritance boundary ) . |
| 16 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 17 | ‘ That is how vital the help of the Mirror has been in this crisis . |
| 18 | Everything you need to know to get either version of the software to run is in there — but the problem is finding it . |
| 19 | Most of the stuff missing was from Mr Marr 's extensive collection of material dealing with invasions from other galaxies . |
| 20 | Much of the cider produced was for local consumption , with farmers bringing in their cartloads of apples for processing . |
| 21 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 22 | More sensitive than their counterparts at the beginning of the decade had been to the technical qualities of Hollywood films , the critics of the time constantly drew attention to the gap between the aspirations and the achievements of British films . |
| 23 | The first part of the dream involved being in a room talking to some friends . |
| 24 | You would probably choose to use materials of this kind because the aspects of the culture featured are of relevance to your students . |
| 25 | Fourteen per cent of the sample had been in a mental hospital at some point . |
| 26 | Most of the assistance has been for the purchase of new or secondhand fishing boats , including the virtual rebuilding of the Western Isles fleet . |
| 27 | Well nowadays I do n't know whether you should record this or not , but nowadays erm they 'll not go unless they 've been to the bar or something before that well unfortunately Leslie 's not able to drink now , he ca n't after his operation , he ca n't take , it just upsets him altogether so he ca n't go to the bar and all the rest of the company have been to the bar and they 're in a different mood than what Leslie is , so Leslie 'll just not go , and it just , it 's kind of , cut him off |
| 28 | Thirty-eight per cent of the workforce had been in the company for 32 years or more and 55 per cent of them were 50 years old or over ( RENFE 1984b : 160–1 ) . |
| 29 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 30 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |