Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At Cambridge , NUPE put a picket around the Union building where I was taking part in a debate and the police wanted to take me in by a side entrance .
2 After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ?
3 This means it 's good for applications where you 're collecting data by picking from prepared lists ( surveys , insurance claims , and so on ) , and poor if you want to enter a lot of text and numbers using the pen .
4 Where we 're taking measures from the image er such as height width etcetera we 'd have to know a lot about the image to take those measures .
5 By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time .
6 In the following analysis , most of the examples have been drawn from one classroom of 9–11 year olds where we were studying collaboration in writing .
7 where they 're including things like that
8 Where you do need to include them is where they have an interface with the rest of the organisation and where they 're keeping records of things for the rest of the information .
9 We need to have some idea what the cells are picking up from , and where they are sending information to , in order to apply those two principles I gave you earlier , the selective trigger feature , and the selective projective zone .
10 They marched down the road , stopping outside every public house — where they were handed drinks by the landlord — and outside cottages whose inhabitants were awaiting them on their doorsteps .
11 For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife .
12 THE former prime minister of Pakistan , Mohammad Khan Junejo , has died of a heart attack in Baltimore in the United States , where he was undergoing treatment for leukaemia .
13 The kidnapper has absconded from the probation hostel where he was awaiting sentence after admitting committing the offence.Since going on the run , Thomas Rennie has phoned the woman 's family to say he 's ’ going to get them . ’
14 He joins Yuill from Twyfords where he was marketing manager for four years .
15 After just two years at Max Factor , which he joined in 1986 and where he was marketing director of colouring and skincare products , he was appointed marketing director .
16 After a detailed survey a large area of stone was removed to the Dorset County Museum where it is given pride of place .
17 Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage .
18 I do not know whether you are at home or in London , so I am sending copies of this letter to both places .
19 We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover .
20 ‘ I 've been thinking , it 's a long time since the two of us went out together , so I 'm taking Ruth for a bite to eat .
21 Furthermore , although you are losing weight without hunger , feeling better and enjoying increased energy and vigour , you look forward to more food freedom at the end of the fourteen days …
22 Yes , so , so , so you 're taking decisions in terms of well which are the most efficient
23 So you 're adding forgery to your many other dubious talents . ’
24 That 's four hundred and eighty , what we 're doing right , okay , so you 're doing trade at the moment in lectures , and er , Bob has asked you to collect some data on er , world trade in wheat and cotton , is that correct ?
25 The request was politely refused , although we were given directions to the Avila headquarters .
26 Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent .
27 Correll thinks herbicides , more potent than they are given credit for , may be to blame .
28 But they , and the set-piece speeches to the party faithful , have also done more for Tory morale than they are given credit for .
29 Whilst these may be significantly cheaper in terms of cost and so written off as mere toys they are often far more capable of producing simple documents than they are given credit for .
30 He thinks people 's musical perceptions are wider than they are given credit for .
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