Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , the visitor interrupts Paul 's conversation and comes to the point : ‘ You , I believe , have guessed where I 'm from . ’ |
| 2 | further investigations disclosed that they were in fact glued on with a resinous adhesive which appeared transparent to the X-rays . |
| 3 | A telephone enquiry disclosed that there were in fact two St Peter 's Schools in Wapping and that while we were in one of them the audience was in the other . |
| 4 | I can not resist retelling one of the anecdotes : in 1963 , at a party to congratulate Cotton on an award he had just received , Lipscomb told Cotton that while he was delighted by the choice , it should not be supposed that he was on the ‘ cottonpickin' ’ committee . |
| 5 | It is generally supposed that it was at Thurgarton . |
| 6 | Critics of the power exercised by parties may perhaps be reminded that they are at liberty to join the party , of their choice , to be active in it and to use there such influence as they can acquire . |
| 7 | To forestall any immediate and hasty rejection of the foregoing method of assessment of the value of human virtue by the reader , he is reminded that there is at present no rational way in which this can be done . |
| 8 | ‘ As to Artai , ’ she said calmly , ‘ he will be reminded that you are in alien . |
| 9 | Q.T 's are also reminded that it is through their efforts that class members see the range of goods we now sell ( a price list is attached . |
| 10 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 11 | She had forgotten that he was off duty until her vision cleared sufficiently for her to take in the fact that he was wearing a dark suit , the jacket unfastened to reveal a white shirt . |
| 12 | In 1950 a polled Finnish bull was imported — and more than one Irishman has claimed that it was in fact an Irish Moiled , in the firm belief that all polled Scandinavian cattle were descended from polled Irish cattle seized by raiding Norsemen and Danes . |
| 13 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 14 | An aeroplane , carrying over five hundred passengers , had reported that they were under attack . |
| 15 | * The animal rights group , Lynx , has reported that it is on the verge of financial collapse because of the costs of defending a long-running libel action by a fur farm and a decline in contributions due to the recession in Britain . |
| 16 | But , unlike natural membranes ( nerve cell membranes , for example ) the ionic resistance of an artificial membrane can not be varied once it is in place ; and so the flux of ions across the membrane can not be fully controlled . |
| 17 | Could I just say colleagues that the the General Secretary is proposing that we 're having , we , we , we 're gon na , we gon na have the bucket collection as has been referred to during the course of the debate and it 's recommended that whatever is in the buckets that the union actually doubles the collection . |
| 18 | Now we are of course talking principally on this sixty hectare allocation for the district outside the Greater York area because I think it is well understood this enquiry can have comparatively little impact on how much development takes place within the surroundings of Greater York , because I understand the site that 's being discussed is already committed and it is in any case part of the York pool rather than the Harrogate pool . |
| 19 | Society itself is , notoriously , changing very rapidly , and the possibility has to be considered that we are entering a period where the notions and the realities of political coercion , of production of wealth , and of cognition and legitimation , may need to be modified if they are to be useable in our actual social environment . |
| 20 | The moment Ferdinando left , with only the most cursory of farewells , to go by train and boat to Rome in advance of the main Party , the icy wind which had swept through the city most unexpectedly throughout October suddenly dropped and it was as if it were summer again . |
| 21 | I wonder what it 'd be like if the phone suddenly rung and it was for me . |
| 22 | Left with this huge deficit the museum has resorted to trenchant measures : the coming centenary exhibition of Piet Mondrian in 1994 has been postponed ; vacancies at the museum have been frozen and there are to be no new acquisitions . |
| 23 | We 're bound to get caught cos somebody 's outside there . |
| 24 | Note : Lymphomas are not included if they are of T-cell immunological phenotype or are described as ‘ lymphocytic ’ , ‘ lymphoblastic ’ , ‘ small cleaved ’ or ‘ plasmacytoid lymphocytic ’ . |
| 25 | Citrine 's interventions largely succeeded because they were in general well-timed ; on issues on which he was utterly sure of the rightness of his cause ; and on ground which had been well prepared in advance by correspondence between officials at the BEA and the Ministry , so that the Minister 's brief could be effectively exploited in the discussion . |
| 26 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 27 | It 's a big game for both of us , and friendships will be forgotten while we 're on the park . ’ |
| 28 | Looking at five sets of data relating to different police areas , the author finds that the proportion of defendants given bail who are found guilty of offences committed while they were on bail is around 10 to 12 per cent. , rising to some 17 per cent . |
| 29 | The boy admitted a string of offences , all committed while he was in the care of social services . |
| 30 | The thrill was out of all proportion to the event , of course , and serves only to reflect the overwhelmingly domesticated aspect of much British countryside , dominated as it is by cows and sheep , as well as some of what historian Keith Thomas has called ‘ our anti-urban bias ’ . |