Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 'm in fer a right 'idin' if I ai n't got that bleedin' contraption out o' the 'ouse by the time my Joshua comes 'ome , ‘ specially if 'e 's bin on the turps again . |
| 2 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's Carrie 's farvver. 'E 's bin in an accident . ’ |
| 4 | Since Billy 's 'ad that gym on 'is mind 'e 's bin like a cat on 'ot bricks . |
| 5 | The story is told chiefly through song and dance , which is 90% of the action of ‘ Sikulu ’ . |
| 6 | Listed buildings have , however , a few advantages , not least of which is freedom from VAT in respect of major works of repair or renovation . |
| 7 | I have two ponds , one holding 1500 gallons and a larger one which is 20′ × 6′ × 2′ . |
| 8 | Q I have recently been given a fish tank which is 24″ × 12″ × 18″ . |
| 9 | But I mean basically , that means that for the , tomorrow morning 's breakfast programme , I want a package including lots of different views , but for drive time which is five till six in the evening , I just want a straightforward , two minute head-to-head , one-to-one interview but for lunchtime which is C A T O , which is Cambridgeshire at One , which is our lunchtime programme , I 'd like you to put all the views into a script of about forty seconds , and do n't forget , for the two o'clock bulletin , which is a very short one , I 'd just like three sentences of copy which sums up the story . |
| 10 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 11 | Is he aware that that figure is now 0.4 per cent. , which is way below the guidelines laid down in legislation ? |
| 12 | That will bring it to 42 per cent. , which is way below the peak in previous cycles and way below the proportion of public expenditure to GDP under the last Labour Government in similar conditions . |
| 13 | The value of shares in firm A is V SL and the return to shareholders , assuming that all earnings are distributed , is which is earnings before tax but after debt interest has been deducted as an allowable expense , less corporation tax . |
| 14 | But for self -consciousness to get a foothold it would be necessary to establish that they were aware of recognising themselves ; which is awareness of a different order . |
| 15 | ‘ I tried to provoke her into doing so , but she said she 'd put you out of her mind completely — she 'd forgotten you , she said — which is nonsense of course — ‘ |
| 16 | He has visited Vietnam several times to search for missing American soldiers , a venture that plays well in his district which is home to a lot of ex-servicemen . |
| 17 | Not Number 10 , but Number 12 , which is home to the Government Whips . |
| 18 | The Kings Lodge , just outside Nuneaton , is a large mock Tudor mansion with a flatted block nearby which is home to about 100 students and staff . |
| 19 | The three double rooms , all with en suite shower , are ‘ attic'-style with fresh flowers and wonderful views of the garden , surrounding fields and woodland , which is home to rabbits , pheasants and deer . |
| 20 | Outside there is an attractive walled garden with mature sycamore trees , herbaceous borders and a lawn which is home to a wide variety of birds , who are encouraged to visit the dining room window , where guests may observe them with the aid of the proprietor 's binoculars and telescope ! |
| 21 | While it might seem very odd that a museum which is home to such Rembrandt masterpieces as the ‘ Jewish bride ’ , the ‘ Academy lesson of Dr Deyman ’ , the ‘ Night watch ’ and the ‘ Self-portrait as the Apostle Paul ’ , would allocate the funds for a much less impressive work , the Rijksmuseum has long made Rembrandt purchases a priority . |
| 22 | Get tips on identification , good birdwatching areas and equipment and be guided on a walk around the reserve which is home to such rare birds as bitterns , marsh harriers and bearded tits . |
| 23 | Visitors can walk right round the island to see such highlights as the Wick — a cliff which is home to thousands of seabirds and where puffins walk around people 's feet — and the Garland Stone where seals lie on rocks at low tide . |
| 24 | Gold miners armed with the new dredges are pouring into the Pakaraima and Upper Mazaruni Mountains , a rainforested area which is home to the Akawaio Indians . |
| 25 | Some 150 wolves are likely to be killed this year in the region , which is home to the Delta herd of caribou , whose numbers have fallen from 10,700 to 4,500 . |
| 26 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 27 | He says that the decisions on which he relies , the most important of which is Hughes v. Metropolitan Radway ( 1877 ) , below , p. 254 , were a natural result of that fusion . |
| 28 | The most valuable book is the one already mentioned , the full title of which is Handbook of Dates for Students of English History edited by C.R. Cheney . |
| 29 | This difference can be measured from the dissymmetry coefficient Z which is unity for small particles , but greater than unity for large particles . |
| 30 | With these coordinates it can be seen that the Schwarzschild mass parameter , which is unity in the line elements ( 10.51 ) and ( 10.53 ) , is here related to the amplitudes of the approaching waves by . |