Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] and be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Youngs , whose Slipperclub had finished third , were embraced by the hyperjoyous Unwins and were invited to their table , leaving the poor Flokatis to seek solace with others whose hopes had died on the last bend . |
| 2 | The last example is situated in tropical Latin America and is taken from Posner and MacPherson ( 198 1 , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | The Stamford and Rutland Infirmary stands on the site of the Franciscan Greyfriars and was endowed by Henry Fryer , surgeon , in 1828 . |
| 4 | The next morning , a Sunday , he agreed to Dick 's suggestion to see a West German doctor , had tests done the following Wednesday and was referred to Zurich for an operation a week later . |
| 5 | Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic . |
| 6 | He was placed under military arrest in early September and was retained in army custody , despite a civilian judge 's order for his immediate release . |
| 7 | Turkish maritime experts are warning of the dangers of an increase in oil and gas traffic through the crowded Bosphorus and are calling for a revision of the 1963 Montreux Convention , which guarantees freedom of navigation through the waterway . |
| 8 | Thomas , 43 , was born in a sharecropper 's shack in rural Georgia and was educated in a series of Catholic schools before reading law at Yale . |
| 9 | The woody monocotyledon , Cordylinefruticosa ( Agavaceae ) , is involved in ritual and magic from eastern Asia to eastern Polynesia and is planted around gardens , being readily propagated from stem fragments . |
| 10 | I currently had a Cavalier SRi and was looking for a GSi . |
| 11 | Jorge Chávez Alvárez , the president of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru , resigned in late April and was replaced by German Suárez Chávez . |
| 12 | In our experience , CBD stricture is seen at ERCP in 30% of patients with severe CP and is associated with persistent cholestasis , jaundice , or cholangitis in 9% . |
| 13 | It became quite common in southern Ireland and was registered in the new Kerry herdbook established in 1887 . |
| 14 | Subsequently this craft turned up on the south west coast of Southern Ireland and was proved to be a regular smuggler in those waters . |
| 15 | Mola found himself commanding difficult campaigns in northern Spain and was damaged by the Carlist connections about which he himself felt uneasy . |
| 16 | Zhang Zhongxian was dismissed as political commissar of -Guangzhou MR and was replaced by his deputy , Lt.-Gen. |
| 17 | The quarries were situated just below Upper Halling and were linked to the factory by a tramway which crossed the A 228 by level crossing just south of the Church and then passed across the S.E. Railway line by means of a bridge . |
| 18 | ( 1978 ) and observed on satellite images by Lyons and Dooley ( 1978 ) covered vast areas of the north-eastern USA and were associated with polluted air mass advection from the Midwest . |
| 19 | Most of the nationally owned forest is in the western USA and is dominated by softwood , while almost 90 per cent of private commercial forests are in the east where hardwoods are more important ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 20 | Another Mill Hill priest , Fr Greg Rice from the States , is local director of the relief-agency Caritas and is battling with the refugee problem . |