Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now my submission is not intended to be representation that the new settlement should be in the greenbelt and great weight must still be given to it 's protection . |
| 2 | Such stories abound and are important in that often the first thing that needs to be broken in us is pride , fear of men and the need to be in control . |
| 3 | If they do n't , then he says the countryside will be stripped of it 's most important resource — people to work the land . |
| 4 | So if we call it Centenary Sports Ground , the next thing that will be added to it is Brinkley , the Centenary Sports Ground , Brinkley , which is fine . |
| 5 | What in general can not be claimed for him is a specially high level of distinction as a designer . |
| 6 | The most that can be claimed for it is that it is ingenious . |
| 7 | The only improvements which could be made to them are minor ones . |
| 8 | More details of the SFEP appeal and of how contributions can be made to it are available from Michèle Clarke , . |
| 9 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 10 | Mercury in metallic form is not particularly dangerous , but many of the organic compounds that can be made from it are extremely toxic . |
| 11 | There were , he said , 180 parks , forests and chases belonging to the queen , and the rights proposed to be leased in them were worth far more than £40,000 a year . |
| 12 | Such sky as was to be seen between them was as grey as a school sweater . |
| 13 | ‘ There was n't owt to be done about it was there ? |
| 14 | The least that can be said for him was that he convinced many that the non-combatants ' interests were worthy of consideration . |
| 15 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 16 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 17 | First thing to be said about them is that they 're all proteins covering a very wide range of molecular weights between three and three hundred kilobocals three thousand to three hundred thousand bocals . |
| 18 | The first thing to be said about it is that , whatever background you choose , it must mesh in well with the murder plot . |
| 19 | The scenes of destitution which the journalists could not be prevented from glimpsing-it is impossible to put someone in a hermetic bubble all the time , even for ten days — had not apparently impaired their appetites . |
| 20 | She was almost on the verge of just letting her will be subsumed into his was n't she ? |
| 21 | With linear restrictions on a linear model , then , the F-test is to be preferred for it is valid for any sample size : in most other cases the likelihood ratio test could be used . |
| 22 | But if upgrading of all the wards were to be embarked upon it was evident that it would cost a small fortune . |
| 23 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 24 | Once an SPR has been submitted , all users who may be affected by it are informed , via the mail system , of its existence . |
| 25 | This was the first time she had admitted openly that all was not well ; and I was forced to reassure her , for otherwise she might find herself in sympathy with me , she might come to my side , and this was unthinkable , for to be understood by her was a prospect beyond endurance . |
| 26 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 27 | The management research field includes many studies on effectiveness , but the only type of participation to be found in them is worker participation , quite different from our topic of client participation . |
| 28 | I I hope this is not a mischievous comment , but I I think it 's very questionable , whether the Christian faith would be known as it is today , down two thousand years , had it not been for an innocent man , Jesus , being unjustly punished and crucified , and so many of the great reformers in the history of man , men and women have died or suffered grave imprisonment because of injustice , and in a paradoxical way , injustice in a way , yo you almost seem as if we need injustice to drive us on , to get things done in a , in a better way . |
| 29 | it used to be known as it was a war do , war factory but you cut them open it were nearly all casing . |
| 30 | Variety found that it ‘ fails to engage any sympathy or interest : entire reels could be interchanged without it being evident ’ . |