Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
2 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
3 | Most of them are listed under the provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1990 , but restrictions imposed by the Act will not come into force until 1995 . |
4 | Her materials consist of marble dust , gypsum cement , resins and rhoplex , but the ways in which she works with them are based on a kind of body language , using gestures that are related to her subject matter . |
5 | I mean some of them are built in the roof . |
6 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
7 | Obviously , when there is some snow on the hills in the summer you ca n't do much , so they are very carefully made and some of them are connected to a computer , so if you have a very good coach with you he can say ‘ You 're going that right , no do it a bit more like this , or a bit more like that ’ . |
8 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
9 | Wind sites must be placed where the wind blows fairly constantly , most of them are situated around the coast . |
10 | He now shares his flat with sixty spiders and , as Erika Barnes reports , some of them are kept in the most unusual of places . |
11 | Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble . |
12 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
13 | Excuse me , can I finish , er many of them are chained to the parent 's legs while they 're collected for these people then to bring to a circus , traumatized and chained to the ground for life . |
14 | Terminals that are connected to them are switched via the MD110 and other data traffic is directed via the Broadband Modules . |
15 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
16 | Two of them are shown on the right with their lines of symmetry drawn . |
17 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
18 | Standard curriculum and the syllabuses which stem from them are approved by the Ministry of Education . |
19 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
20 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
21 | Any amino acids in the nectar are probably of little importance and nectars high in them are avoided by the birds . |
22 | ‘ Inevitably , the care staff helping them are supervised to a much lesser degree than they would be in a residential establishment . ’ |
23 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
24 | Agency workers and their close equivalents make up only a small minority of the temporary workforce and most of them are concentrated in a very narrow range of occupations , particularly those involving office or secretarial skills . |
25 | ‘ A group of them are concentrated around the gas drums . ’ |
26 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
27 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
28 | Most of them are contained in the report I had drawn up , which is in front of you now . ’ |
29 | The managers of any newly referenced modules and any packages containing them are notified of the SPR . |
30 | The managers of any newly referenced modules and any packages containing them are notified of the SPR . |