Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 2 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 3 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 4 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 5 | That would 've been down hill . |
| 6 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 7 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 8 | The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay . |
| 9 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 10 | Three of the people listed are in Exeter . |
| 11 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 12 | All the samples you make are of use to you . |
| 13 | Data creation and data capture are at odds with each other ; the protagonists and the interpreters of history are still at cross purposes . |
| 14 | In general this is all that you need to complete most documents , the only extra frames you 'll need are for images . |
| 15 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 16 | The battles and skirmishes of middle-class rural boundary disputing are of interest only to their panting protagonists . |
| 17 | But the rhetoric of the past quarter of a century has been about prosperity founded on technology as advanced as that found anywhere , and about economic power to match that of the United States and Japan . |
| 18 | ‘ Over the last six months the most common request for information has been about Ecstasy , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 20 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |
| 21 | The diachronic evidence shows that , for a century or more , the trend has been towards retraction and backing . |
| 22 | His poems can be awkward and blunt but you feel any revision has been towards truth rather than beauty . |
| 23 | The main thrust has been towards breeding Tridacna gigas and T. derasa , the common edible species , but with aquariums in mind commercial breeders are now raising the beautiful T. crocea . |
| 24 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 25 | This ancient wetland has been under threat ever since the £50 million Hereford Eastern bypass was announced in 1988 . |
| 26 | THOUSANDS of people will take to the streets of Glasgow tomorrow in support of the Albion axle factory , which has been under threat since the financial collapse of its Dutch parent company last month . |
| 27 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 28 | Srebrenica has been under Serb siege since the Bosnian civil war began 11 months ago . |
| 29 | CCETSW has been under government pressure to raise the number of newly-qualified social workers to 5,000 a year , partly to meet demand from the shift to care management . |
| 30 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |