Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun prp] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | REVOLVER , Pulp and The Bardots are among 15 bands confirmed to appear at London 's Smashed ! |
| 3 | FUDGE TUNNEL , HOLY JOY and BACK TO THE PLANET are among bands confirmed to appear at London 's Smashed ! |
| 4 | Saatchi 's decision to sell through Gagosian is understandable purely on business terms , but other aspects of the sale are less readily explicable . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want it to sound like Jayne 's mundane . |
| 6 | The opportunity to escape from Reine was irresistible . |
| 7 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 8 | The decision to convert for NetWare is customer-driven , he said — with NetWare 's 60% to 70% market share in both Europe and the US , Informix can be sure that Novell 's operating system will be running in at least one department in the majority of companies . |
| 9 | Again , the decision to convert for NetWare is customer-driven , he said — with NetWare 's 60% to 70% market share in both Europe and the US , Informix can be sure that Novell 's operating system will be running in at least one department in the majority of companies . |
| 10 | But to campaign against Maastricht is political posturing in the most foul of company . |
| 11 | The Assembly called on member states to respond to WHO 's urgent appeal for US$3,000,000 to help cyclone victims in Bangladesh [ see p. 38176 ] and urged more effective measures to combat the cholera epidemic in parts of South America [ see p. 38142 ] . |
| 12 | Against that , many of the pile-'em-high-and-sell-'em-cheap stores that took advantage of falling property prices to expand in Britain are convinced they can grow at the expense of existing supermarket chains even when good times return . |
| 13 | A tall thin guy I had seen in the house before crawled on all fours in front of the television to get at Nicola 's joint . |
| 14 | Had the option to continue at Hummersknott been available , I would probably have done so . |
| 15 | However , in the context of the volatile reaction , both internal and external , to a relatively mild Agrarian Reform initiative , they may well have served to endorse Castro 's conclusion that the social change which he wanted the revolution to effect in Cuba was incompatible with extremely powerful domestic and foreign economic interests . |
| 16 | All she could do now was to rely on Ethel being merciful ( which was not one of Ethel 's main qualities ) . |