Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ To write about Aids is bad taste , ’ he deadpans . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | In the course of the fourteenth century mechanical clocks became progressively more numerous in Europe , most of those that were not installed in churches being public clocks . |
| 6 | As a stores manager , Horne finds that the quantity of 1,1,1 used in labs is small . |
| 7 | The exact numbers of animals caught in nets are unknown , but available statistics show incidental captures to be widespread throughout the region , and these mortalities may have a considerable effect on local populations . |
| 8 | The treatment of individual supporters has at times been shoddy and the club need to radically improve their attitude towards the paying customer . |
| 9 | The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there . |
| 10 | But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages . |
| 11 | Although the near-monopoly enjoyed by solicitors was indefensible because it related only to the preparation of documents , ‘ there is a real need for consumer protection and I am far from sure that the White Paper proposals meet this need , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Children picked by paedophiles were likely to be reabused or become abusers themselves . |
| 13 | As Weisstein says , seeing psychological gender differences as complementary is sophism : ‘ It is no use to talk about women being different but equal ; all of the tests 1 can think of have a ‘ good ’ outcome and a ‘ bad ’ outcome ’ ( 1973 : 419 ) . |
| 14 | I remembered what Lili had said about brides being gift-wrapped , and thought of them in their boxes . |
| 15 | He also pointed out that evidence showing that PCBs act as immunodepressants is inconclusive . |
| 16 | Some animals such as primates which are closely related with humans are apt to catch human types of diseases , for instance colds or the flu , and for this reason humans should not be allowed to get too close . |
| 17 | The production of sport climbs with bolts is acceptable on NATURAL ROCK only when ALL the following circumstances are satisfied : |
| 18 | Anna believed in children being free , she trusted them , and she saw to it that Constanza got a proper education . |
| 19 | Although the number of older people living in institutions is small the prevalence of dementia among this population appears to be high ( see below ) . |
| 20 | Snakes living in crevices are easy to understand as symbols of the life within the earth . |
| 21 | The student living in lodgings is invisible in terms of qualifying for the council tax and does not add one jot to the amount that the widow or anyone else would have to pay . |
| 22 | The age of people carrying radios around or listening in cars was undreamt of . |
| 23 | I am sure that the 7 million or so patients who will benefit from nurses being able to prescribe will be grateful that he has chosen a Bill which will certainly be passed and will certainly — once it has reached the statute book and is implemented — have practical benefits for that many patients . |
| 24 | But an evolutionary decrease in the rate of ageing in humans is likely to occur over the next few generations . |
| 25 | Secondly , there is a risk that higher prices charged by monopoly suppliers will result in DHAs being able to purchase a lower volume of services than provided at present . |
| 26 | It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy . |
| 27 | Over a third of compression bandages applied to patients were inadequate . |
| 28 | Often the sole ornament applied to mills was projecting angle piers and a small cornice near the top of the facade , surmounted by a ‘ blocking course ’ of bricks , although some very large mills built during the Edwardian period , when labour and materials were cheapest , display elaborate decorative brickwork . |
| 29 | Many insults applied to men are insulting because they connote homosexuality ( arsehole , bugger ) . |
| 30 | These were mostly artificers , labourers or servants , many of course being taxed only on wages , as were many of those assessed at nil in the musters ; the status of any who were later taxed on wages is obvious , while those never assessed at all almost certainly included the unemployed and , probably , vagabonds and beggars . |