Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] mr [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Hoey is the first Labour frontbencher in the Commons to be sacked since Mr Smith replaced Neil Kinnock as party leader . |
| 2 | Mr Robertson applied for an adjournment to see if witnesses could be traced but Mr Justice Kennedy denied his application . |
| 3 | They were all getting noisy but the cake had to be delayed until Mr Hogan returned from the shop . |
| 4 | Mr Saunders has already been charged with the theft of the £5.2m , raising the possibility that this part of his trial may have to be delayed until Mr Ward is extradited . |
| 5 | STAFF TRAINING The details have yet to be revealed but Mr Pearson said the council had been encouraging firms to train their staff since 1983 . |
| 6 | No such abuse of the bankruptcy laws was to be dreaded as Mr Erskine had feared . |
| 7 | Mr Habibullah is still missing , the matter has now gone to the Lahore High Court , and the assembly 's fate will be decided when Mr Sharif 's friends produce the unfortunate Mr Habibullah next week . |
| 8 | If only prudent allowance is made for the loss of Sir Charles 's personal cross-party vote , the participation of three other candidates and the tactical switch of a significant number of Labour supporters , it will be seen that Mr Taylor 's defeat was indeed a close run thing . |
| 9 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 10 | In my judgment even if it could be said that Mr Clayton attorned tenant to Twogates by tacitly accepting the terms of that letter , such an attornment would not be evidence of an unequivocal intention on the part of the landlords to re-enter under the provisions of the … lease … |
| 11 | He was hoping , no doubt , to be told that Mr Wilcox was n't in yet , so that he could leave a message for Vic to ring back , thus putting him on the defensive , knowing that his divisional chief knew that he , Vic , had n't been at his desk as early as him , Stuart Baxter . |
| 12 | Perhaps you might be persuaded that Mr Henderson of Branbury Castle also falls into this rare category . |
| 13 | That leaves £7.7m to be distributed but Mr Jordan said some of this would still have to be held back for litigation . |
| 14 | Legally , however , it seems that if it can be proved that Mr Fuchs spent above and beyond the municipally approved budget of DFl.12 million without authorisation , then he may be held personally responsible for the losses . |
| 15 | In effect , however , he was letting it be known that Mr Heseltine would not be the only interventionist candidate for the leadership -nor the only one to feel more enthusiasm about Europe than Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | Captain Don Ward asked to be readmitted after Mr Taylor was defeated at the general election , but party officials have now decided he ca n't come back . |