Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 2 | House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it . |
| 3 | Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects . |
| 4 | The pattern has usually been for such people to establish themselves as privileged representatives of a ‘ god ’ who has the power to punish or destroy those who do not conform to the rules which they , the privileged , have themselves formulated , but have attributed to the ‘ god ’ . |
| 5 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 6 | It is not the case that social science theories , once their value-components or culture-boundedness have been revealed , are for that reason relegated to the local museum of the social sciences to become an object of quaint curiosity . |
| 7 | For those who want to make a choice or are for some reason coming new to Ferrier , I would recommend the fifth disc with the unforgettable Chausson and Brahms , the sixth , which has some of her best and most lovable performances of British song , including Purcell 's Mad Bess of Bedlam preciously available only in an EP , allied to some precious Wolf , sung with new-found subtlety of nuance , from a Norwegian Radio recital , and the ninth disc , the Edinburgh recital with Walter , which has much the more telling of her two accounts of Frauenliebe und -leben . |
| 8 | These encounters are for this reason accompanied by a great deal of laughing , smiling and verbal exchanges . |
| 9 | They are out most nights visiting a post office somewhere or repossessing cars . |
| 10 | Saying fantastic erm and then you can say look , as it 's been of some benefit do you remember what I said earlier ? |
| 11 | Bankers are generally in a position to make specific conditions for providing finance and so have little need for the audit , abbreviated accounts filed 10 months after the year end are of little value to trade suppliers and customers , and the Revenue 's reliance on audited accounts is ‘ largely illusory ’ , the Institute says . |
| 12 | Standards which do not enable valid and reliable assessment are of little value to end users . |
| 13 | Well I remember Jackie telling me , she came back from sh she came up to meet me in London one day and she came up with the woman , a German woman , who at that time was a buyer for Army and Navy er women 's fashions and this woman said that the model girls who are so thin she said they 're always bursting into tears and crying because they 're under such stress to keep their weight down and their boyfriends do n't like it because the girls are are lovely to have on their arms to take out , you know everybody sort of goggles , you know , lovely slim girl with yellow half way down her back etc. but , in fact , these girls get very , very ratty ! |
| 14 | You 're in that place surrounded |
| 15 | I do n't think they 're in any rush to develop now , are they cos this housing business is so poor . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't believe you 're in any position to go calling anyone names , ’ she returned , affecting a calmness she was in reality a million miles from feeling . |
| 17 | I do n't think you 're in any position to pass judgement on someone like Mike . ’ |
| 18 | But please if you 're in any doubt have a word with your electrical contractor , unless you are a competent person yourself and capable of doing it yourself and working out the , the ampage yourself . |
| 19 | ‘ I do not think we are under any duty to publish malicious gossip , ’ he said , ‘ which remains gossip however true it may be . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story . |
| 21 | er we we 've we 've agreed the table on on the base basis of erm information best information available a at the moment but but equally I would n't wish it to be seen th that I am in any way attempting to prejudge the outcome of er local plan studies , erm so the information that I 've agreed with with Mr C Cunnane is basically an attempt to clarify the tabulation fo er in |
| 22 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 23 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 24 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 25 | This does not mean that the objective differences in wealth and income have been in any way reduced , but relationships have become easier and more informal . |
| 26 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 27 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 28 | Joseph Wolf , who later worked as an artist for Gould , once said , ‘ to have been in any way associated with Charles Darwin is an event in a man 's life . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , although I think Helena Landless could have been in this tradition do n't you ? |
| 30 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |