Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 2 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 3 | But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port . |
| 4 | The two pieces of knitting to be joined are replaced on the needles . |
| 5 | The two pieces to be joined are replaced on the needles with the right sides of the fabric together . |
| 6 | The trial of two people accused of the murder of a man described as a police informer has been halted on the orders of the judge . |
| 7 | The ZIBF Bookshop , through which Zimbabwean book buyers are able to pay for imported books in local currency , is being expanded , and an application has been lodged with the authorities for a significantly increased foreign currency allocation . |
| 8 | Beauty itself has been declared through the ages to be an exalted physical state , hinting at qualities of light , grace and love whose source lies beyond the material world and yet which can enter into physical substance and transform it . |
| 9 | A thermal imaging camera , which can find and follow suspects even at night , has been fitted to a police helicopter . |
| 10 | When the top rail has been fitted onto the tenons the profile of the tops of the uprights is traced onto the top rail , which can then , like the lower back rail , be cut to the correct curb using the template previously prepared from the original . |
| 11 | The development of more than 20 houses at the former Fraser 's caravan site between the Scout Hut and the Jet Station in Currie has been opposed on the grounds of increased traffic through Juniper Green . |
| 12 | The development of more than 20 houses at the former Fraser 's caravan site between the Scout Hut and the Jet Station in Currie has been opposed on the grounds of increased traffic through Juniper Green . |
| 13 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the person is a lawful visitor and has been invited to the premises . |
| 14 | A number of schools have now indicated their interest in piloting from next session , and a meeting has been arranged between the headteachers of these schools , the Regional education department , and SCOTVEC . |
| 15 | A full day tour has been arranged to the pyramids , Sphinx and Saqqara . |
| 16 | Although the steaming has been arranged for the Lions , the museum will be open as normal to other visitors . |
| 17 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 18 | Neighbourhood Watch A meeting has been arranged for the residents in Baberton Crescent and the scheme should be operational in a short time . |
| 19 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 20 | A cheese ‘ n ‘ wine evening has been arranged for the co-ordinators of the existing neighbourhood watch branches in the Village Hall on Monday , 28th September at 7.30 pm . |
| 21 | The Code has been recognised by the courts as establishing objective standards of fairness towards minority shareholders which they will take into account when exercising their own discretion under , for example , CA 1985 , s430C or s459 . |
| 22 | A new complex of buildings has been built on the outskirts of the city . |
| 23 | Although comparatively little has been written about the professions in the UK there are those who see these occupations in the same altruistic light . |
| 24 | Yet so much has been written about the wonders of the Roman road system that probably not enough allowance is made for their often poor condition . |
| 25 | Regarding workplace politics , much has been written about the trades unions in the Dukeries , because of the dramatic events that occurred in Nottinghamshire in the aftermath of the 1926 General Strike . |
| 26 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 27 | The video has been written with the interests and expectations of the young adult learner firmly in mind . |
| 28 | Much anthropology has been written on the ways in which culture and social rules constrain women . |
| 29 | In other words , between one third and two thirds of the prey bone has been lost from the samples . |
| 30 | This statement has been echoed through the ages — by Plato : ‘ Love is the desire and pursuit of the whole ’ ; by Coleridge : ‘ Love is a desire of the whole being to be united to some thing , some being , felt necessary for its completeness ’ ; and by the man in the street ; ‘ My other half ’ , or even ‘ My better half ’ ; or in Erickson 's terms : ‘ the ‘ me in you ’ ’ . |