Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [pron] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |
| 2 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 3 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 4 | That hurt , especially after all they had been through together . |
| 5 | After all we 've been to one another in the past … ’ |
| 6 | How could I tell her the truth , after all she 'd been through ? ’ |
| 7 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |
| 8 | The world of the theatre is made up of those who like being on stage and those who enjoy being behind it . |
| 9 | Of managerial and professional workers unemployed in 1985 , 18.1 per cent had been without work for up to six months , compared to 12.2 per cent of those who had been without a job for between two and three years . |
| 10 | The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ By an odd coincidence only 8% of those who had been on strike got increases while 92% of those who had worked during the strike got increases ’ . |
| 12 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 13 | In this connection it was agreed that Christine should add the names and addresses of those who had been at Carberry to her database . |
| 14 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 15 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 16 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
| 17 | Among this older group 46 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more were admitted , 75 per cent of the others . |
| 18 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 19 | A ballot organised by parents found that 94.3 per cent of those who voted were in favour of retaining the ILEA ; and 51.6 per cent of those entitled to vote rejected abolition . |
| 20 | An estimated 70 per cent of those who voted were in favour of the new constitution which enshrined a unitary state and reduced the powers of the president . |
| 21 | At 46 per cent the turnout was too low ( due to an opposition boycott ) to allow the required 50 per cent of the 7,000,000 voters in Serbia to approve the constitutional amendment , although 95 per cent of those who voted were in favour of early elections . |
| 22 | As will be seen in the section on training , 95% of those who have been on an ATB course saw ‘ less time and effort ’ as one of the main benefits to themselves . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not going to name anyone in particular but you are all aware of those who have been to Australia this winter with the A team , and they have all got a chance of coming through this summer especially some of the young bowlers . ’ |
| 24 | You can never hope to achieve the professionalism of those who have been in a single business all their lives and hence you need quickly to get to know those whose opinions you can trust . |
| 25 | However , the number of people with fathers in the professional group is relatively small , so that they are still a minority of those who have been in higher education . |
| 26 | Either he is as simple and as straightforward as he would like us to believe , or he is , as many who have been around him think , so infinitely and deviously smart that , like a fox , he just ca n't be captured . |
| 27 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 28 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 29 | The agony of An Outcast of the Islands is heightened by several occasions when the meeting of eyes between those who have been in love is one of terrifying intensity . |
| 30 | English Nature 's Derek Langslow defines ancient woodlands as those which have been in existence since the 16th century or earlier . |