Example sentences of "[vb base] be [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | Surely if all we want is prints off existing things all you need do is a request with a DOPACS number ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 5 | Yet all we get are promises of some vague labelling scheme , which will do almost nothing ( by itself ) to reduce energy consumption . |
| 6 | But what I really like is girls with small feet . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even the cults of Real Soul , Third World Music and Go Go are forms of regressive rock , in so far as they 're fantasies generated within rock press discourse , and represent a retreat from the studio and technology in search of roots and ‘ raw truth ’ . |
| 10 | I think erm , often when judges , I do n't know whether George or any other judges that might be here tonight , one of the things which I as a judge often dread is photographs of babies coming up in competition . |
| 11 | Corporate property and entail were sins against the ‘ natural tendency towards perfection ’ : individual interest , i.e. ownership , was the ‘ first instrument of prosperity ’ . |
| 12 | All the laws we quote are congruences of that semantics in the context ( described there ) of environments with unbounded sets of free locations and channels . |
| 13 | In 1946 there were already signs of clerical opposition to any socialization of welfare in queries about Fianna Fáil 's proposals from Archbishop McQuaid and the Confederation of Convent Schools . |
| 14 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |
| 15 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 16 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 17 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 18 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 19 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 20 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 21 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 22 | He says there 've been stories about a buyer but it has n't happened yet . |
| 23 | There 've been robberies at Tibberton near Droitwich , Worcester and Wyre Piddle near Pershore . |
| 24 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 25 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 26 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 27 | The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest . |
| 28 | These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse . |
| 29 | She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year . |
| 30 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |