Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ . |
| 2 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 3 | Next up was David Stewart of Charles Wilson Booksellers , a veteran of the school market , who warned that Roy Davey 's suggestion that ‘ it was down to every publisher to be in schools selling their own books ’ would in his view lead to chaos . |
| 4 | I 'm on tranquillizers to calm my nerves . |
| 5 | I 'm on tranquilisers to calm my nerves . |
| 6 | And the onus will be on employers to ensure their offices comply with the Display Screen Regulations . |
| 7 | Time will be standing still in Kington on sunday … the streets should be empty … they 'll all be at Lords to cheer their cricket team on the village eleven have made it all the way to the final after 25 years of trying … |
| 8 | Even though there are both specific and general exemptions from this provision it is so important to the client that the solicitor must be at pains to explain its effect very carefully to an applicant for legal advice . |
| 9 | Thus the practical stress of Marxist movements and parties has been on individuals sublimating their own ethical beliefs and judgements to a collective , party-defined line . |
| 10 | Their level of awareness of being in a laboratory declined , and their awareness that they were under instructions to observe their own sensations similarly became less strong . |
| 11 | Most were from fans telling their happy memories of the comedian , who died in April . |
| 12 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 13 | It is about men reconciling their feelings towards their fathers and learning how to show emotion . |
| 14 | Yes , we have to fight for our equality , for our own rights but w we can change men and our , the responsibility is not for women to change men , it 's for women to change our own lives , our own situations , and for we , men to change their own . |
| 15 | Ultimately the answer to heavy reservation pressure is for selectors to keep their nerve , and refuse to over-provide in a way which will prejudice other elements of the stock used by larger sections of the community . |
| 16 | The idea is for youngsters to start their journey armed with information about sex , drugs , visas , money , jobs , disease , even the environment . |
| 17 | The simplest way around this is for artists to get their assistants to sign over the reproduction rights before work begins . |
| 18 | We all know how difficult it is for scientists to obtain their due recognition . |
| 19 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 20 | The alternative is for Greeks to watch their economic hopes fade , and listen to the world go on chuckling about the story of the Golden Unfleeced . |
| 21 | How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception . |
| 22 | Industry does not stand still and the trend nowadays is for employers to expect their employees to respond positively to the demands of the enterprise . |
| 23 | The plan is for publishers to donate their unsold magazines , presumably gaining a tax benefit in the process , and these will then be shipped overseas . |
| 24 | So general is this norm that the value of not being ‘ prejudiced ’ is even shared by the fascist writer who is at pains to deny his own prejudice but to pin the label upon liberal opponents . |
| 25 | Even though Luke is not trying to answer the question , ‘ What happened ? ’ , he is at pains to set his account in a historical setting . |
| 26 | Prior to the Children Act 1989 coming into operation on 14 October 1991 , the practice was for justices to announce their decision in the most simple terms , saying that they made a care order or a custody order , as the case might be . |
| 27 | more , the emphas the emphasis was on civilians patrolling their own , their own areas . |
| 28 | And , unlike most story-tellers with an involvement , I was at pains to minimise my own part ; the last thing I did was boast . |
| 29 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |