Example sentences of "[vb base] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I suspect that you wo n't be talking to these kinds of men , or do you get a chance to talk to the men that you perceive are part of the problem . |
| 2 | But h I mean are people in the habit of wanting to get rid of furniture ? |
| 3 | The premises that CFS occupy are part of the former RAF airfield and the large engine bay used to resound to work on Griffons from Shackletons and Centauruses from Beverlies . |
| 4 | Mmembers themselves say being part of a national union gives them a voice to fight for their rights . |
| 5 | ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . ) |
| 6 | S but what they say is part of his managerial status demanded him having a company car to which I was given one as well but in effect that then became his wife 's because he was still banned for drink driving . |
| 7 | Second , they agree on the conclusion that the solipsist 's charade of concentrating on an experience and pronouncing a word , no matter how fervently , can not succeed in establishing a rule which the solipsist can follow in a new case . |
| 8 | According to Wittgenstein , this initial belief is as incoherent as the solipsist 's claim to be able to set up a private language , since it relies upon too great a gap between our behaviour ( including linguistic behaviour ) and internal mental life . |
| 9 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 10 | What we want is peace with security . " |
| 11 | Now if you 've got somebody who you are protecting their family , and they 'll be paying that plan twenty five years or more , the fact that they pay commissions out for the first four years is immaterial , what they want is peace of mind and protection . |
| 12 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 13 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 14 | Or : ‘ What I want is paper with narrow lines , |
| 15 | Teachers are at the ‘ sharp end ’ here ; the values we hold are part of this process . |
| 16 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 17 | Once SAVE 's case for the significance of the building was made , its retention as part of the London scene was accepted by all the parties involved . |
| 18 | SAVE 's PURCHASE of Barlaston Hall for £1 is now legendary . |
| 19 | Kwik Save 's return on capital is the envy of Britain 's supermarkets ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 20 | But Seabrook promises it is a one-off break with Kwik Save 's stance against Sunday trading . |
| 21 | Discovering where the big fish lie is part of the pleasure of fishing in this area . |
| 22 | Yet all we get are promises of some vague labelling scheme , which will do almost nothing ( by itself ) to reduce energy consumption . |
| 23 | the spread of desert conditions for whatever reason , desert being land with sparse vegetation and very low productivity associated with aridity , the degradation being persistent or in extreme cases irreversible . |
| 24 | What I know is sense of others profits . |
| 25 | Indeed , when Pilate produced a coin which had an augur 's staff on its obverse , it could well have cost him his job ; for an augur 's staff smelt of pagan religion , and that could not be tolerated in Judea . |
| 26 | But what I really like is girls with small feet . ’ |
| 27 | Well that and I think the house you know was sort of |
| 28 | I spent what I assume was transition with an almost continuous pain in my left side and feeling sick as well . |
| 29 | Others , for the same reasons or for what they believe are reasons of legal principle , may argue that no murder is committed , on the basis of the reasoning noted earlier that the ventilator is ‘ prolonging life ’ , and turning it off is an omission permitting death , not a commission causing death . |
| 30 | The posts stuck into the rock to your right as you ascend are markers for winter to stop people going off the edge ; they also double as abseil posts for a quick escape route . |