Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 2 | He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort . |
| 3 | In this enchanting corner of the Park they are brought to life by the magic of Disney . |
| 4 | The Bonnards and their car offered the opportunity they were looking for , a way of gaining entry to this country for two operatives and a device of some kind . ’ |
| 5 | Before a youth was apprenticed to the Sechem he was committed to a number of years of study of the Yasa , memorising the codex in its entirety so that he was capable of relating his knowledge of the law to science . |
| 6 | Months after the banning he was removed from his position as a teacher although this , it 's been suggested , was also a result of his having married a ‘ foreign ’ woman in a registry office . |
| 7 | The complexity we are faced with here is one of everyday messiness . |
| 8 | On the base they are inscribed with the name of a former owner , Silius , who served as legate of Upper Germany between A.D. 14 and A.D. 21 . |
| 9 | Ethnomethodology depicts conversation as discourse constructed and negotiated between the participants , following pre-established patterns , and marking the direction they are taking in particular ways : with pauses , laughter , intonations , filler words , and established formulae . |
| 10 | That 's definitely the direction we 're heading as a society . ’ |
| 11 | the abolition of profit making and democratic control mark out cooperation as nothing less than a revolution , so fundamental , vital , and transforming is the change it is effecting in the economic structure of society … |
| 12 | The pastoral work of the church can not be done without adequate financial support and I am afraid the support we are getting at the moment is simply not enough for all we are doing . ’ |
| 13 | When entries are transferred to the Working-Set they are packaged into bundles which are owned by predefined groups of lexicographers . |
| 14 | During the Protectorate he was associated with the circle of natural philosophers and mathematicians at Oxford which centred around Seth Ward [ q.v . ] , |
| 15 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 16 | The board he 's sitting at in your picture has the pieces the wrong way round . |
| 17 | As I left the cinema I was seized in an irresistible spasm of shivering . |
| 18 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 19 | I wonder which part of the sentence he is referring to . |
| 20 | Before the burglary he was said to be in good health . |
| 21 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 22 | Not only that but when we found the mattress we were searching for , one corner had been completely eaten away . |
| 23 | The longest surviving sovereign of the age , the Emperor Muhammed Shah ( called Rangila , or the Colourful ) , survived by the simple ruse of giving up any pretence of ruling : in the morning he watched partridge and elephant fights ; in the afternoon he was entertained by jugglers , ventriloquists , mime artists and conjurors . |
| 24 | By the afternoon she 's tucking into three or four chocolate digestives and in the evening has something like baked beans on toast and the odd glass of wine . |
| 25 | In the meditation it is given in Latin , the Middle English version from the Primer is : This tone of penitent confidence in the grace made available through Christ dominates the longer meditation which sustains a formal devotional element that constantly acts as a buffer between the meditator and the subject of his meditation . |
| 26 | We wo n't actually make or do anything , but it will be really neat lying in the meadows thinking about all the money we are making on off-shore tax haven related business . |
| 27 | ‘ While we would hope the money we are spending at the moment is proving to be cost-effective , at the end of the day electronic security is really only buying time , ’ said Mr Banks . |
| 28 | To save money the government has now cut by one-third the money it is spending on the resettlement area . |
| 29 | The debt counsellor said that as long as I paid all the money I was getting from Social Security for the house , they could n't take it away from us . |
| 30 | ‘ With all the money I 'm paying for your education , you should learn more than that ’ … |