Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [vb pp] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |
| 2 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 5 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 6 | SunSoft says it 's reached the second milestone in its Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF ( Distributed Object Management Facility ) , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's CORBA specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 7 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 8 | Under it is constructed a sixteenth century mausoleum and behind ( 242 ) is the seventeenth century bell tower . |
| 9 | The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread . |
| 10 | It is called A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics ( 1980 ) . |
| 11 | It is believed a third man drove the getaway car , a red Ford Escort XR3 , which made off towards Horrocks Avenue . |
| 12 | Secondly , the court may order him to forfeit his office if he is convicted for corruption under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 , and if he is convicted a second time under that Act he may be adjudged incapable for ever of holding a public office . |
| 13 | ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine . |
| 14 | He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years . |
| 15 | But he 's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car . |
| 16 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 17 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 18 | But since then he 's won a Second Division promotion medal and is near the top of the Premier League . |
| 19 | T IS programmed a second data pack , in a language the Psion understands , to handle the information . |
| 20 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 21 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |