Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , it 's the erm , the one Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken . |
| 2 | Well , I think that a few words from me are called for , as you say . ’ |
| 3 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 4 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
| 5 | ‘ And how long has this news about me been known , Parson Tringham ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ What would have been Britain 's level of development had millions of them been put to work as slaves outside of their homeland over a period of four centuries ? ’ asks Guyanese professor of history Walter Rodney . |
| 7 | There 's a lot of them been closed since then . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Objects are defined by their function , while actions and those who perform them are viewed as connected parts of a greater whole . |
| 10 | They 're all coated and some of them are disturbed . |
| 11 | Often referred to as vegetable dyes , despite the fact that many of them are obtained from animal and mineral sources . |
| 12 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 13 | It is interesting to examine various superhuman beings and determine which of them are presented as inherently shy and fearful . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some people who have an elderly parent to live with them are heard to say , ‘ We 're very fond of her of course , but the trouble with Mother is that she 's always there ! ’ |
| 16 | The Universe contains so many billions of stars besides our own Sun , many of which have planets , of which many in turn have moons , that some of them are bound to provide conditions that could support organic life . |
| 17 | As the numbers of frail old people grow , in both absolute and proportional terms ( and they far exceed any other vulnerable groups ) , those who work with and for them are bound to experience this dilemma more acutely , which may be summarised as ‘ just how much are we supposed to do to support and protect such old vulnerable people ? ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Considering the Hay & Maddock results for human geography , where the authors found that 40% of social scientists rarely refer to theses , and 29% do not use them at all , it will be apparent that geological theses form a significant element in the communication process , since almost half of them are cited . |
| 20 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 21 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 22 | Those that survive experimental tests are provisionally retained and those that fail to survive them are rejected , although some decisions are open to appeal in the light of some further ingenious , independently testable hypothesis . |
| 23 | Incensed by such treatment , the hare scratched the Moon 's face with his claws and the two of them are disfigured to this day . |
| 24 | Some of them are explained in more detail on the following pages along with accounts of Tesco 's efforts to tackle a range of problems from toxic chemicals to energy conservation . |
| 25 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 26 | When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes : |
| 27 | The others move to different premises , where nearly all of them are given degrees three years later . |
| 28 | More details of these charts and how to complete them are given in ILO ( 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Directors are treated as being in a position analogous to that of trustees , so powers conferred upon them are given to them in a fiduciary capacity . |
| 30 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |