Example sentences of "[verb] be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | Will he confirm that in every year and for every authority recently in Greater Manchester , the amount of money that the Government have allowed them to spend on capital projects has been way behind what they have needed , with the result that there is now a backlog of repairs and maintenance ? |
| 3 | The North Korean leader Kim Il-sung is 80 years old , and there has been speculation about his health . |
| 4 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 5 | For the United States , this has been part of its purpose as an aspect of counter-insurgency policy : to prevent the mass of the population defecting to the FMLN and its allies , and to deal with the social and economic costs of about half a million displaced persons . |
| 6 | You can at least see or hear , which has been part of your ordinary physical development . |
| 7 | This new interest has not relied simply on a moral redefinition of ‘ crime ’ to draw attention to analogous , but uncriminalised , activities of the ruling class ( although that has been part of it ) . |
| 8 | It is difficult for an individual complainant to show that there has been discrimination against him/her on the grounds of race . |
| 9 | There has been criticism of my buying but most were hired in a crisis when I was down to eight fit men . |
| 10 | However , the research findings have not always been consistent and there has been controversy over their significance . |
| 11 | There has been trouble with its chips , delays in providing disc-drives for the computer and a lack of software to run on it . |
| 12 | At least since the early 1960s , the British countryside , from the Isle of Wight to the Scottish Highlands , has been host to what we Forteans call ABCs ( Alien Big Cats ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not express in words the love and care which has been show to me by all my Christian friends since Mam died . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But we accept that any case of overcharging is one too many , and there has been failure on our part , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 16 | ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’ |
| 17 | She is planning a long holiday in Egypt and America and there has been talk of her working on a new ITV soap called Routes . |
| 18 | In fact , there has been talk of it taking up to four years to give effect to this , during which time who knows how many young people will die , while the Home Office and the Home Secretary drag their feet ? |
| 19 | When there has been trauma in her life , e.g. divorce or the death of a family member |
| 20 | It 's a tremendous team , I have greatly enjoyed being part of it . |
| 21 | It is not that the cells die because they are sick or somehow abnormal — dying is part of their programmed development . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I do n't know how strong it is because as I say , erm most contracts of employment do include a provision that if somebody h has a driving licence and loses it and driving is part of their work , even if it 's only a minor part of their work , then the employer can erm dismiss . |
| 24 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 25 | The first question to be addressed is presentation of what ? |
| 26 | All this makes it evident and indisputable that the compiler of PS did not understand the finer points of trust wordings : for he announces that the wordings he quotes are ones in which the settlor addresses the beneficiary . |
| 27 | ‘ The cases in which the principle has been applied are cases in which the nature , scope and purpose of the function vested in the repository made it unlikely that Parliament intended that it was to be exercised by the repository personally because administrative necessity indicated that it was impractical for him to act otherwise than through his officers or officers responsible to him . |
| 28 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 29 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 30 | so seen are things beyond us to construe |