Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOW NORSK DATA ASKS FOR ITS OSLO LISTING TO BE CANCELLED FOR TWO MONTHS |
| 2 | His authority for the date is the chronological list in Nuruosmaniye 3080 , one of the two reproduced by Menage , the base date of which Husameddin takes to be 857 rather than 858 . |
| 3 | Immunization studies using irradiated sporozoites have indicated that responses to pre-erythrocytic-stage antigens , those expressed by sporozoites or liver-stage parasites , can provide complete immunity both in rodents and in humans , and that similar protective mechanisms , of which CTL appear to be an important component , may operate in each species . |
| 4 | She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy . |
| 5 | Life as ritual and art is a belief we associate very much with those ‘ long-forgotten ’ Nineties when sins were still scarlet against which Eliot professed to be reacting in 1917 when he declared that their ‘ aesthetic eccentricities may now be ignored ’ . |
| 6 | Result : defeat which left Neath effectively and more or less openly pulling against what Ryan perceived to be the national interest . |
| 7 | But it is a task with which John seems to be coping remarkably well . |
| 8 | He paused , then with what Robbie considered to be an unutterably complacent smile , ‘ And I doubt very much whether Petula would approve of your presence either . ’ |
| 9 | 1992 marks a major change in which Europe ceases to be a matter for specialists and becomes the concern of everyone in local government . |
| 10 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 11 | As in the 1920s , Morocco provided the scenario in which Franco appeared to be endowed with a special mix of luck and divine protection — baraka as his Moroccan soldiers called it . |
| 12 | In Scale 1 Hilton defines the obstruction to the sight and sound of Jesus as the body of sin and death from which Paul cried to be delivered ( Romans 7:24 — 5 ) and which the anchoress encounters in the progress of her meditative life . |
| 13 | Susanna held out a thin , freckled hand , and parted heavily glossed lips in what Christina assumed to be a smile . |
| 14 | The Matron pursed her lips , in what Alida took to be sympathy , but she did not comment . |
| 15 | ‘ It should be easy for you , ’ remarked Brian , addressing his stepdaughter in what Scarlet felt to be an ill-advised tone of patronage , ‘ with your grandfather 's reputation and my experience . |
| 16 | In what Ashley considered to be a shameless playing to his audience , the little boy bestowed another wide smile . |
| 17 | It corresponds to what Gandhi conceives to be necessary in the quest for Truth . |
| 18 | It is no doubt for this reason that the Syrian foreign minister , Farouk at-Shara , has gone out of his way to emphasise that continued Syrian support depends on the way in which the West responds to what Syria perceives to be the fundamental problem of Middle Eastern security — the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue . |
| 19 | It lacks the grandeur of Macbeth 's earlier apocalyptic image of pity , Yet it is no less the response to what Macbeth knows to be his ‘ horrid deed ’ . |
| 20 | Only a strong working parliament on what Weber took to be the British model , working in committees which make policy and supervise bureaucrats , could generate strong leaders who prove their mettle in parliamentary and electoral combat . |
| 21 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |