Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renewed executions , he suggested , would act as a deterrent to counter a recent upsurge in political violence ( more than 20 people had been assassinated in Turkey so for in 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Born in the 1880s he had been educated in Switzerland long before Reza Shah 's establishment of a dynasty in his own name , and had been exiled to the north-east of Iran . |
| 3 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 4 | The forerunners of the railway stations of the Trans-Siberian were the ètapes , the stockaded rest stations with barrack-like rooms , and the post-houses which had been built across Siberia earlier in the century . |
| 5 | All modules are written in Pascal apart from one module containing some of the low-level camera control and some other manipulations . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been seen around London lately with both John D. Hansom and Roderick Luckey , and rumour has it that both men want to marry you . |
| 7 | Well , it 's been going in Oxford now for three years and it 's for people with disability and able bodied people , and with the current production we have which is being produced by Paul Newham , the people there have er suffered with M S and are visually impaired and er you know , various disabilities like that , plus able bodied people . |
| 8 | Now some of the tins have been sold in Northampton still with Gateway labels . |
| 9 | Although hundreds of identified Spitfires are recorded in the book as having been transported to Malta either in their holds or openly on the decks of many named cargo ships , it was interesting to note that the Author could find no mention in Spitfire — The History of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp nor of the serialled Spitfires it transported to the Mediterranean in 1942 for the defence of Malta . |
| 10 | It seats approximately 180 persons for full silver service , and has been redecorated by Duchy throughout in traditional English style . |
| 11 | Philpott had then been contacted by Graham personally on the advice of the Delta Commander . |
| 12 | He had been based in England up to the age of twenty-two before going abroad to earn his living as a surfer . |
| 13 | Women are marching in Washington today for Pro-Choice . |
| 14 | In August Amnesty complained that 29 Tuaregs had been executed in Mali apparently without trial . |
| 15 | By October we find Smolensk party officials annulling a delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye still being demanded by one local authority ( some taxes in kind had been reduced from March onwards to a single uniform tax calculated in terms of rye ) . |
| 16 | The decision is likely to postpone a hearing on the charges for many months and it is now thought that the case could eventually be heard in Milan instead of Turin . |
| 17 | We shall probably be landing in Saigon sometime after lunch tomorrow . " |
| 18 | Never mind , I 'm going into Cheltenham tomorrow to the library . |
| 19 | It 's hoped that by the end of July a Waveney class lifeboat from the reserve fleet will be based at Torness provisionally for one year to assess its viability as a mooring and operational base for Dunbar 's all-weather lifeboat . |
| 20 | A Dublin government spokesman said last night that Ruari Quinn , the Irish minister for employment and enterprise , would be flying to Boston tomorrow for talks with the Digital management . |
| 21 | Davidson will be performing in Wales up to Christmas and is due to entertain troops in Bosnia from Boxing Day . |
| 22 | THE new Five Nations Cup will be taken to Paris today as the tournament 's organisers gamble that France will be the first to win the trophy . |
| 23 | Susan said , ‘ I 'm leaving for Trame tomorrow for the bilaterals . |
| 24 | Diplomatically and politically non-Europeans could be ignored by Europe down to 1914 , except in the western hemisphere , where United States influence was paramount , and in the Far East , where Japan became increasingly important and the Americans had interests which might require respect . |
| 25 | ‘ My next project will be an 11-tone whistle which will probably be fitted to Ralph here at Snowdon ’ . |
| 26 | A conference on the matter is to be held in Beijing later in the year . |
| 27 | The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual , a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire . |
| 28 | Leeds youth team are playing in Dublin tonight against Home Farm youths . |
| 29 | One has , for example , cottage rows being erected at Winchester apparently by individuals , and shops being built by the city corporation at Exeter and by the abbey at Tewkesbury ( 90 , pp.67–8 ) . |
| 30 | Onward Christian socialists The annual lecture to commemorate RH Tawney , the economic historian and Christian socialist , is being given in London today by the Labour leader , John Smith . |