Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , existing paper documents could be scanned into the computer enabling them to be further processed without the necessity of reproducing the original . |
| 2 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 3 | Most had to be ploughed flat every spring to enable them to be used at all . |
| 4 | These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall . |
| 5 | Radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite , and can move readily through porous rock and soil and can seep into buildings causing dangerous concentrations to accumulate ( inhaling radon causes it to be deposited in the lungs so increasing the risks of lung cancer ) . |
| 6 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 7 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 8 | The 11th round had been scheduled to begin on Feb. 15 , 1989 , but the change-over in the US administration caused it to be postponed until June 19 , five days after the US Senate confirmed the appointment of Richard Burt ( a former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs ) as the new NST delegation leader . |
| 9 | This was confirmed on computed tomography and biopsy showed it to be a well differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma . |
| 10 | Brah 's review of the debate about the inclusiveness and limitations of the category ‘ black ’ and of the often fractious engagement between feminism and antiracism shows her to be not unsympathetic to this post-structuralist perspective . |
| 11 | The lamp 's dim yellow light showed him to be seated , or rather slumped , in his big armchair . |
| 12 | Only his card allowed him to be identified . |
| 13 | Later , the College permitted him to be the veterinary examiner for the East India Company . |
| 14 | On the spiritual plane , the Beggar advises him to be reconciled to God 's will and his own lot in life . |
| 15 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 16 | For the Spirit 's work in assurance is to give us a firm foundation to build on , not to make us arrogant ; the ‘ already ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Spirit 's internal witness enable us to be sure without being cocksure . |
| 17 | For these reasons the Department considers it to be of the utmost importance that the form is used in all of the appropriate circumstances and clearly it will help if it can be completed right after the incident has taken place . |
| 18 | Instead , he had a blue card telling him to be at the hospital for his first appointment with a National Health psychotherapist , a photograph of a fair-haired woman with green eyes , a driving licence , a library ticket , a yellowed old newspaper cutting about a forgotten murder , and a much fresher , more succinct bit of print torn from last Sunday 's newspaper . |
| 19 | If you were going to say a travel industry case study and insurance industry prefer it to be quite practical . |
| 20 | Again , all the boys are circumcised according to tradition , and we do not need to flash the penis to prove us to be nice , Jewish boys . |
| 21 | This hesitation seems to be due to something about what knowledge is , and there is no obvious way to explain it if knowledge is as the tripartite conception claims it to be . |
| 22 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 23 | So net debt is two sixty four million er and therefore the pro forma debt equity ratio 's halved from fifty seven percent to twenty eight percent we do of course expect it to be somewhat lower by the year end as our working capital which is coming to its peak season , unwinds . |
| 24 | The application of previously defined style or property sheets to large amounts of text allows it to be rapidly converted from one form into another , merely by adjusting the rules written into the style sheet . |
| 25 | The coin caused it to be possible that the bar come out . |
| 26 | After designs had been agreed , the work of fitting out the brake vans was undertaken at Wolverton and the vans returned to traffic , pending requirements , the stretcher brackets stored on the vehicle to enable them to be fitted at short notice . |
| 27 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
| 28 | Although tattered and torn , their clothing revealed them to be citizens of late twentieth century Earth . |
| 29 | The two-seater training planes — to go into service from 1994 — have night vision equipment allowing them to be used on a battle frontline . |
| 30 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |