Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANCHESTER CITY can call off their wide-ranging search for a goalscorer — the man they want has been at the club all the time . |
| 2 | The man they want to trace is in his late fifties , about five feet five to five six . |
| 3 | Yeah , really the question I want to put is to the er B T Post Office er representatives , that y you made a perfectly reasonable objection to the way in which B T funded it 's early retirement scheme from the pension fund . |
| 4 | So , what I want to do is to er really repeat what I said last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 5 | So all I want to do is to forward my external calls which are n't being answered . |
| 6 | It appears to establish three categories : the first contains wordings generally agreed to be acceptable , the second wordings which appear to have been at some time problematic but are now acceptable , and the third wordings which remain inadmissible . |
| 7 | Indeed , religious tensions appear to have been at the root of the party divide — not the sole cause , it should be stressed ( indeed , much of this book has been concerned with documenting the complex ways constitutional and religious issues interacted ) , but perhaps the most potent source of conflict , with attitudes towards Dissent ( whether one was sympathetic or hostile to Protestant Nonconformists ) being one of the strongest predictors of partisan allegiance . |
| 8 | 685–6 when the pagan Caedwalla came to power , and the southern Saxons under a Christian king , Aethelwealh , but still otherwise largely a pagan people , appear to have been beyond the range of Theodore 's metropolitan power . |
| 9 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 10 | Vamplew ( 1979:2f ) states that , of the five types of disorder classified by Mann and Pearce , ‘ all but remonstrance can be found at soccer grounds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , though the majority of incidents appear to have been of the frustration or confrontation varieties ’ . |
| 11 | Museum visits then , appear to have been by no means a matter of Sunday entertainment and relaxation . |
| 12 | It is true that the Hwicce appear to have been within the sphere of influence of the Mercian king from the reign of Wulfhere at the latest and Penda 's presence at Cirencester c. 630 certainly reveals Mercian involvement with the region at a still earlier date . |
| 13 | The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority . |
| 14 | Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) . |
| 15 | His financial interests appear to have been in land and minerals . |
| 16 | The opportunity you really want to take is on the other side of that wall and it will remain there until you manage to puncture your own pomposity . |
| 17 | The second point I want to make is in relation to something that has changed since the approved strategy and that is the inter-relationship between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire . |
| 18 | This does not apply where possession of land is claimed , title to land is in question or the plaintiff claims libel , slander , malicious prosecution , false imprisonment or fraud . |
| 19 | I 'm with you , for a start , and I happen to like being with you . |
| 20 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 21 | Recently , SAVE has been to the rescue of a small but delightful Methodist chapel in a Lincolnshire village , to stop it being dismantled and shipped to the USA ; the Pavilion Theatre at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , which the local council had agreed to demolish ; and a popular Hampstead pub , Jack Straw 's Castle , which , though an important work by the architect Raymond Erith , the brewers wished to alter radically . |
| 22 | The chap on the Britannia stage was referring , almost certainly , to a recent threat by the IRA in Derry to kill two people who they allege to have been behind a ‘ major drugs ring ’ in the city . |
| 23 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 24 | But such links remained tentative and seem to have been of little relevance to policy development even if the symbolism was important . |
| 25 | His family seem to have been of limited means , for his father intended to take him out of school at an early age to become an apprentice . |
| 26 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 27 | In general , these joint muderris/muftiliks seem to have been at the or levels , their holders receiving 50 akce ; but there are instances on the one hand of lower-ranking posts-in about 940/1533–4 , for example , a muderris/mufti of Agras ( Aghrus , also Aghras , now Atabey ) received 30 akce a day , then moved on to become mufti in Ankara ( and probably muderris , although Ata'i does not mention a medrese ) with 40 akce and on the other hand cases , particularly in Amasya , Manisa and Damascus , where the holders received 60 , 80 or even 100 akce a day . |
| 28 | We seem to have been at the end of its reach on this occasion . |
| 29 | Fears that the recovery might be running out of steam now seem to have been over done . |
| 30 | The bloody fools seem to have been under the impression that they had performed rather well . |