Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 2 | By the same token , the public school choice would not be surprised to find that the Labour Party opposition regarded the official unemployment figures as underestimates The arguments that divided them are illustrated in Table 10–2 , which reproduces in a slightly amended form a table that appeared in The Sunday Times ( 6 November 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Often referred to as vegetable dyes , despite the fact that many of them are obtained from animal and mineral sources . |
| 4 | When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes . |
| 5 | And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target . |
| 6 | So many of them are based on wordplay , puns . ’ |
| 7 | From the list of industries , which of them are connected with agriculture ? |
| 8 | Yet changes which at first seem major or dramatic often fade in significance as parts of them are assimilated into school operation or attention is diverted to newer concerns . |
| 9 | Some of them are run with creche facilities . |
| 10 | Attempts to reduce all the factors to a common denominator through placing a monetary value upon them are riddled with uncertainty . |
| 11 | These knowledge sources and the processes associated with them are shown in Figure 1.2 . |
| 12 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 13 | Most of them are frozen to death . |
| 14 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 15 | Some of them are taken by instrumentation but others are eye observations . |
| 16 | Almost all of them are found in regrowth , e.g. species of Cecropia and Piper , where the chewing off of competing plants is important . |
| 17 | The coverages are shown in Fig. 6.3 and the error estimates for them are contained in Table 6.2 . |
| 18 | Many of the mathematical ideas connected with them are described in chapter 5 Water . |
| 19 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 20 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 21 | ‘ I am threatened with eviction , and need a solicitor to negotiate with the landlord . |
| 22 | I am struck by anxiety . |
| 23 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 24 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 25 | Is it because I am consumed with envy when I pass the Woodborough bookshop , and there is Eleanor 's newest novel in a special display , and with resentment because I have n't heard from Mary for over a year because she is so busy now , commuting to Brussels being a Euro-lawyer ? |
| 26 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 27 | I am a prisoner of conscience , I am named by Amnesty . ’ |
| 28 | Of Baking , Marie Ure says : ‘ Once again I am lost in admiration at the magnificent response to the appeal , in quantity , in quality and also in imagination . |
| 29 | I am lost in thought , |
| 30 | This case is like the case in which I am lost in cloud and shout out , ‘ Here ’ to let my wife know where I am . |