Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry , you 'll have to wait for daddy 's clear . |
| 2 | Caddying for Sandy is different again to Seve . |
| 3 | An act or forbearance of the one party , or the promise thereof , is the price for which the promise of the other is bought , and the promise thus given for value is enforceable . |
| 4 | Orders placed during August are unlikely to be supplied in time for the start of the Session on . |
| 5 | Using anti-friction materials developed for space , excavators can be made to work at very low temperatures without lubrication , while materials developed for Buran are ideal for artificial limbs and , in particular , hip joints . |
| 6 | I mean for instance is gipsy a very helpful word . |
| 7 | Financing for Sequoia is necessary because of reduced revenues and operating losses during the past two quarters , and its default under its bank credit arrangement and liquidity difficulties . |
| 8 | See what I mean about metal being unparodiable ? |
| 9 | However , most of the cases which arose for decision were concerned with payments extracted ultra vires by persons who in virtue of their position could insist on the wrongful payment as a precondition to affording the payer his legal rights i.e. they were payments colore officii . |
| 10 | Open Learning Grants for training are available to all companies in the manufacturing and construction industries , hotel and catering establishments and firms engaged in tradeable services . |
| 11 | ONLY Billy Bingham has more international appearances to his credit of those gathering for Wednesday 's international with Latvia than this man . |
| 12 | ONLY Billy Bingham has more international appearances to his credit of those gathering for Wednesday 's international with Latvia than this man . |
| 13 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 14 | SCATTERED about Merseyside are amateur opera and drama companies , the quality of whose productions and standard of performance would seriously worry many a professional outfit . |
| 15 | Or are you saying that the level of provision the County Council propose for employment is excessive bearing in mind that they do not propose to cater for one hundred percent migration ? |
| 16 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 17 | However , only assignment and test for equality are legal operations on pointer variables . |
| 18 | Therefore anything you say about God is meaningless . |
| 19 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 20 | ‘ To write about Aids is bad taste , ’ he deadpans . |
| 21 | The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident . |
| 22 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 23 | Sapphire , the Black woman who is light-skinned enough to pass for White is pregnant by her White fiance ’ , but again the child does not appear as it is annihilated along with its mother . |
| 24 | Despite boasts months ago , it has of course been unable to get volumes at 200MHz and probably wo n't until third quarter 1993 . |
| 25 | Their impact has of course been immense . |
| 26 | Disposing of hair is dodgy , as is buying a broom in May or at Christmas . |
| 27 | He can never be forgotten throughout heaven 's eternal days ! |
| 28 | Ministers actually grappling with policy are wary of Sir Leon Brittan 's suggestion this week that East Germany be integrated into the EC , not as a new member , but as an extension of an existing member , West Germany , which already provides the Krenz regime with special access to the West . |
| 29 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 30 | However , while the extension of such major structural elements as the Highland Boundary Fault and the Southern Uplands Fault into Ireland is probable , their position can not be clearly defined , largely due to the extensive cover of Mesozoic and Cainozoic sedimentary rocks and plateau basalts . |