Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture . |
| 32 | The only Wirral opt-out votes preceding St Mary 's College have been at grammar schools . |
| 33 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
| 34 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 35 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 36 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 37 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 38 | A great deal has been said and written , and food manufacturers have been in a hurry to extol the virtues of their food based on its fibre content . |
| 39 | Although his initial performances have been below par it has by no means been the worst start to a Test career by a recognised English batman . |
| 40 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 41 | WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC . |
| 42 | At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war . |
| 43 | The names which have previously confused scholars would in effect have been like the variety of names used for , say , a contemporary political party or , at most , for the spectrum of groups and individuals which coalesced into a single movement — the French Resistance , during the German occupation . |
| 44 | Might not Derek Pringle 's participation in the World cup final with the help of a cortisone injection have been at the risk of permanent damage to himself| ? |
| 45 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 46 | The polytechnics have been under a similar financial strain . |
| 47 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 48 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 49 | The main losses have been in the relations between staff and the prisoners . |
| 50 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 51 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 52 | Check for English speaking instructors : Austrian yokel speak is beyond interpretation by any but the most fluent German linguists . |
| 53 | Despite some earlier hesitations , it is now certain that A commits the tort of intimidation against C if he threatens B with conduct which is unlawful in relation to B and thereby intentionally causes B to act ( or refrain from acting ) in a way which causes damage to C. It is not a requirement of this tort that B's conduct be in any way unlawful in relation to C. An old illustration is Garret v. Taylor , where the plaintiff was the lessee of a quarry and alleged that the defendant had ‘ disturbed ’ his customers and his workmen by ‘ threatening to mayhem and vex them with suits if they had brought any stones . ’ |
| 54 | B's remedy is against A alone . |
| 55 | A TELECOMMUNICATIONS link is to be established between students in Darlington and their counterparts in France . |
| 56 | Nature 's way of regulating overpopulation as many third world countries know is by famine and disease , a slow and agonising process . |
| 57 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 58 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 59 | It is , as far as can be remembered , the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike — the very core of the working class who made the revolution possible . |
| 60 | A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics . |