Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 2 | Mr Gordon accused GFP of being ‘ fundamentalists ’ about roads and said : ‘ It is a myth that other cities are spending nothing on roads . |
| 3 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 4 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 6 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 7 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 8 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 9 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 10 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 11 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
| 12 | The theory has several distinctive aspects , the most important of which are these : ( a ) The insistence that units are ranked one above another in a definite order . |
| 13 | Cars are killing us with pollution and accidents . |
| 14 | Les Routiers are offering it to BBC Good Food readers at a special price of £6.99 ( including p&p ) . |
| 15 | Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics . |
| 16 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 17 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 18 | CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible . |
| 19 | Probably written in the winter of 1857 , those two words were to propel him into prominence and , ultimately , the White House as newspapers across the country broadcast his speech ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–327,000 ) . |
| 20 | It is significant , and ironic , that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an ‘ intellectual aristocracy ’ . |
| 21 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 22 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 23 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 24 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 25 | The dark eyes were raking her from head to toe , appraising her — from the long , tousled russet hair to the bare feet protruding from beneath the hem of her wrap . |
| 26 | She glared up , aware of the slight change in his tone , and saw that his eyes were scouring hers with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 27 | The blue eyes were studying her with an intentness she found exceedingly disconcerting . |
| 28 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 29 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 30 | No wonder Mr MacGregor produced his paper and called for full public discussion just as political pundits were tipping him for promotion in a ministerial reshuffle . |