Example sentences of "[vb base] be [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 3 | Indeed , when Pilate produced a coin which had an augur 's staff on its obverse , it could well have cost him his job ; for an augur 's staff smelt of pagan religion , and that could not be tolerated in Judea . |
| 4 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 6 | The letter you write is part of your company 's design , as is the way the telephonist answers a call . |
| 7 | The process usually involves the stimulation of indigenous subsurface microorganisms to degrade chemicals on-site , although there have been cases in which microorganisms with some specialised metabolic capabilities have been added . |
| 8 | At the same time , there have been cases in which ‘ the inference of illegal conspiracy ’ has been drawn from ‘ detailed similarity of behaviour ’ . |
| 9 | He told Mr Tebbit : ‘ You have been chairman of our party — and a very successful one — and you know the traditions of our party . |
| 10 | All the cases discussed in this section have been ones in which words addressed to one person were held to make another person a trustee either for the first person or for a third party . |
| 11 | Furthermore , ‘ there have been questions about his loyalty ’ , for Alderson has had the temerity to caution the service about an apparent drift towards paramilitarism . |
| 12 | As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle . |
| 13 | As for us , we have your story , we have a saint who has made her way back to us by strange ways , and we have those who have been friends to her on that journey , and may well believe , as you believe , that the lady has been in control of her own destiny , and choosing her own friends and her own dependants . |
| 14 | The result of this unique situation has been that , although there have been disagreements about which specific reactor type should be built , governments of both main political parties have nearly always accepted the UKAEA 's general pro-nuclear arguments . |
| 15 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 16 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 17 | An anniversary poem went to the Queen , and many MPs have been recipients of his comments couched in rhyme on subjects from food irradiation ( he 's an opponent ) to saving the Antarctic . |
| 18 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |
| 19 | Indeed , there have been decisions in which management 's right to reorganise in a way contrary to the explicit terms of employee 's contracts has been interpreted even more liberally . |
| 20 | In many other trades , crafts and professions , vocational qualifications have been part of their prosperous development and I therefore commend to you that we be attentive . |
| 21 | Claims for religious motivation behind the pursuit of science are difficult to test , but there have been circumstances in which they seem appropriate . |
| 22 | I know nothing about Mr McLachlan he does not appear in Who 's Who : whether he hails from Scotland , Ireland , Korea or Czechoslovakia ; whether he is Catholic , Presbyterian or Buddhist ; whether he is married with children ( sorry , kids ) or celibate ; whether there have been tragedies in his life , or whether it has been an uninterrupted progression to his present exalted situation . |
| 23 | Mr Winner , most of whose efforts with the camera thus far have been studies of his girlfriend , actress Jenny Seagrove , was paid £200 by the book 's publishers for his Gielgud picture . |
| 24 | Fingerspelling has been available longer and there have been studies of it . |
| 25 | Some have been classics of their genre ( some of our reggae and C&W compilations , for instance ) , some have captured , however controversially , the spirit of the age and set the debate buzzing ( ‘ C86 ’ ) and others just made piles of dosh . |
| 26 | Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays . |
| 27 | We all like to feel we have been witness to something out of the ordinary , preferably unique , and that is why the unprecedented sight of 33 catches in a Test match was titillating . |
| 28 | ‘ But there have been men in your life , Caroline . |
| 29 | However , there have been situations in which troops have been used , the most frequent being industrial disputes and antistate violence beyond the powers of the police to control . |
| 30 | How has the power of this system of classification been dealt with by those who have been victims of its perverse games of inclusion and exclusion ? |