Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the presiding officer in charge of a polling station has the right to ask questions of any voter whose identity or capacity to vote is in doubt , no one who attended at the station said they had been challenged . |
| 2 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 3 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 4 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 5 | Everywhere in public life , old families , old money and titles have been in decline , while business has advanced . |
| 6 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |
| 7 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 8 | Data creation and data capture are at odds with each other ; the protagonists and the interpreters of history are still at cross purposes . |
| 9 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 11 | Thus the practical stress of Marxist movements and parties has been on individuals sublimating their own ethical beliefs and judgements to a collective , party-defined line . |
| 12 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 13 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 14 | A magnificent example of the ‘ Paxford says ’ routine is provided when Maureen and Minto have been into Oxford to get two wireless sets on approval . |
| 15 | Further down on the same side are the remains of Foxholes Side Lock , which served Foxholes Basin , now filled in. the banks hereabouts are in a poor state of repair and restoration has been in progress between here and the m62 Trans-Pennine Motorway bridge . |
| 16 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 17 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 18 | The problem is to seek the correct balance , and to this end monitoring and studies have been in progress since 1989 . |
| 19 | The preliminary findings about staff ratio and staff contact are of interest . |
| 20 | In the past nine years , he says , he and Kinnock have been to hell and back together but ( unless Sisyphus intrude these columns again ) paradise now seems tantalisingly close . |
| 21 | The three wanted men were close friends from Armagh , and Duffy and Gorman had been in Derby with Magee for several weeks before Monday 's shooting . |
| 22 | ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since . |
| 23 | Tehran , Baghdad — Andropulos again playing both sides of the fence , Iran and Iraq had been at war for six years now — Tripoli , Damascus , Beirut , Athens , Rome , East Berlin , New York and London . |
| 24 | Since the ‘ two-plus-four ’ process began , Britain and France have been in tune , notably on a place for Poland when the talks turn to frontiers . |
| 25 | IBOA and its members have grave concerns about this development and negotiations have been in progress for the past number of months . |
| 26 | And Tim has been to nursery today . |
| 27 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |
| 28 | Dr. Crocker and Wexford had been at school together . |
| 29 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 30 | it 's just that my mum and dad have been on ones where they do n't know where they 're going , Greece |