Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 2 | To travel through Ireland without visiting a pub would be to miss out on a huge chunk of Irish life . |
| 3 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 4 | Our excitement would rise ; soon we knew the names ; on the left the Lawley and Caradoc , on the right the Longmynd , and in two minutes we would be drawing up at the nerve centre Church Stretton . |
| 5 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 6 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 7 | Proponents of the scheme believe the fans would form artificial tornadoes of polluted air , which would be propelled up through the thermal inversion " cap " . |
| 8 | It is intolerable that Labour MPs who are also accountable to all the voters in their town should be turfed out by the block vote . |
| 9 | Marilyn has worked with Douglas Reyburn for just over a year as time keeper , but because of her clerical skills will also be helping out in the office when leave is taken by others . |
| 10 | Vivien 's good idea became a big-budget shambles , and Spellbound seemed to be eased out of the second series . |
| 11 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 12 | The only way to reverse what the hon. Gentleman alleges would be to go back to the sort of tax rates that we had under the last Labour Government — 83 and 98 per cent . |
| 13 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 15 | But increasingly , doubts , some of which can be traced back to a general report on the supply of professional services by the Monopolies Commission in 1970 , were raised about whether restraints on competition in the professions are necessarily beneficial . |
| 16 | The beginning of The Wedding Present 's Ukrainian phase can be traced back to a John Peel session recorded in October 1986 . |
| 17 | Almost the whole development of the law of trusts and its interpretation can be traced back to a combination of two factors : the slight respect of trusts for set legal form ; their independence from an heir and from the will . |
| 18 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 19 | To a large degree , all of these developments can be traced back to a sudden and quite unexpected revolt against the drive and direction of nineteenth century thinking . |
| 20 | Today when the primacy of history above all else — the economic , even class conflict — is asserted within a Marxist discourse , together with an accompanying defence of humanism , it can usually be traced back to a Marxism of a Sartrean existentialist form . |
| 21 | The origins of UAPT-Infolink plc can be traced back to a group of traders meeting in coffee houses to exchange their personal experience of bad debtors . |
| 22 | The origins of Cognitive–Behaviour therapy may be traced back to the philosopher Epictetus , who in the first century AD wrote ‘ People are disturbed not so much by events as by the views which they take of them ’ . |
| 23 | Belief in the power of such plants can be traced back to the time of the Druids ; it was certainly part of the belief system of the Celtic peoples , and although it may not be voiced so explicitly as it once was , yet the custom of planting and preserving this special tree is still continued by some people . |
| 24 | On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party . |
| 25 | In particular , the origin of the problem of the dating of Easter can be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 26 | The ultimate origin of our seven-day week and the restrictions for long imposed on Sunday activities can thus be traced back to the Babylonians . |
| 27 | The idea of a primeval golden age can be traced back to the Sumerians ( c.2000 BC ) . |
| 28 | The germ of this idea can be traced back to the sophist Antiphon ( c.480–411 BC ) , one of whose fragments contains the earliest Greek definition of time . |
| 29 | The founding father of modern Mithraic studies , Franz Cumont , showed that Roman Mithraism was a continuation of the Iranian religion of Zarathustra and that its origins can be traced back to the Hindus , for in the Vedic hymns we encounter the name Mitra . |
| 30 | Its origin can be traced back to the Sumerians and Babylonians . |