Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 2 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 3 | We have tramped miles over mountain and moorland in search of sport , and one of the joys of living and fishing in Scotland is that in spite of nearly forty years ' trout fishing , we have at least another forty years to go before we can honestly say we know but a fraction of all the fishing available . |
| 4 | Of course , there are unions and parties within Japan which cut across enterprise identification , but the point made by Hirschmeier and Yui is that for many workers , for much of the time , the enterprise is a more strongly pertinent collectivity . |
| 5 | But what they have shown me against Brazil is that in ‘ 94 they can play the way they 're going to have to play . ’ |
| 6 | I lost that job at Miss Havisham 's because of you . |
| 7 | If you can show me plainly where Tutilo was until past that hour , we may strike him from the roll and forget him . ’ |
| 8 | What was obvious , though , straightaway was that Mr Carver did n't talk much and his greeting of Mick was as to one of the family , indicated with a nod and a ‘ Hello , there ! ’ |
| 9 | The Flemings are not famed for their courtliness , but William 's loyalty to Stephen is as beyond question as fitzAlan 's . |
| 10 | And he uses a very large orchestra of 36 players not only to play sinfonie and ritornelli more substantial than Peri 's but for dramatic effect , as in the sudden change of tone-colour when Orpheus fatally looks backward . |
| 11 | The disquieting feature of the pronouncements of the House of Lords is that by flatly insisting upon the literal rule without expressing any qualifications , they tend to repress the use of the traditional tools by which the judges have in the past introduced rationality into the statute law . |
| 12 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 13 | Erm I like Marion 's because of the the colours in it but I did n't I did n't really like Fiona 's because I did n't think it was vivid enough . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 15 | The best-known example in Britain is that at Lydney Park , excavated by Wheeler in 1928 . |
| 16 | The most remarkable example of such a deposit in Britain is that at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey , found by a contractor during the last war when he was digging for peat . |
| 17 | Now one of the comments of Pausanias is that before a battle the Celts neither employed a Greek soothsayer nor made sacrifices according to national custom — if indeed , as Pausanias pointedly remarks ( 10.21.1 ) , there is such a thing as Celtic divination . |
| 18 | Now I have to be careful what I say about Lady Thatcher 's because of the laws of libel and also I do n't know who 's written which pieces but it 's known she 's had help you see . |
| 19 | But as we know from British history one of the understated reasons why erm there was a lot of hostility to home rule for Ireland in Britain was because of the fear of the creation of a hostile state er erm off , off Britain 's shore . |
| 20 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 21 | Thereafter the difference between his life class and that run by Ruskin Spear was that in Spear 's the students painted naked ladies , in Minton 's , naked men . |
| 22 | Briefly , the facts in Vestey were that in 1942 the heads of two Vestey families conveyed certain properties to non-resident trustees to be held on discretionary trust for the benefit of the settlors ' descendants . |
| 23 | She felt sure that Freddie Nash was as in love with her as she was with him for there was hardly a day when they did not manage to meet , often in Jock Hallett 's cottage , where their mutual passion , already discovered at The Angel , seemed to intensify . |
| 24 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 25 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean — you said you went straight to Radcliffe 's because of it . |
| 27 | An especially important result of the establishment of both the HIDB and the WIIC is that at long last there are professional jobs in the Western Isles for at least some of those who have gone to university on the mainland and have previously had to stay there to work . |
| 28 | One of the big differences I discovered between the East and the West End was that in Whitechapel the names of debtors were chalked up on a slate , whereas in Chelsea they opened an account . |
| 29 | One of the largest settlements in Gloucestershire is that at Bourton-on-the-Water , which has spread westwards from the Iron Age fort at Salmonsbury towards the Fosse Way , which it treats almost as a secondary feature ( fig. 7.4 ) ; but it is here , where the road bridge crosses the Windrush , that Mrs Helen O'Neil has found a Posting . |
| 30 | The problem for Sombro was that at the mere age of three , he was getting old before his time because of his rampant ways and , by the look of the scars on his face , ears and neck , he was n't finding it any easier to hold his own with the competition . |