Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By the first year of secondary school , most Caribbean children in areas of reasonably high Caribbean settlement are speaking it to some extent at least .
2 Xhibition — the X-Windows show — calendared for June 15th to 19th in San Jose , California , is expecting to fetch more than 100 exhibitors : Mircosoft Corp and DEC are citing it as one of the key technical conferences to explore NT and ACE applications development .
3 With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent .
4 avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five .
5 The theory has several distinctive aspects , the most important of which are these : ( a ) The insistence that units are ranked one above another in a definite order .
6 Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering .
7 These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion .
8 Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits .
9 Most infants ( 92% ) excreting cotinine at three weeks were excreting it also at one year ; moreover , 61% of infants not excreting cotinine at three months were excreting it at one year .
10 The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports .
11 So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false .
12 The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer .
13 She has since died , and the Society , which emphasises that there is no question of the painting being sold , has decided that the most correct course of action is to put it on permanent loan with the National Gallery , where it will go on display , newly restored , in an exhibition of comparative material this October .
14 The aim of the project in relation to schools is to regard them as one kind of community group among others .
15 He noticed that Hari was watching him with dull eyes .
16 ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town .
17 The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output .
18 These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness .
19 The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free .
20 ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour .
21 But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’
22 Oh , Ken was asking us about that .
23 Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music .
24 A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks .
25 It seems to me two of the elements are lend themselves to some sort of arithmetical assessment an and the County 's gone through at .
26 What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event .
27 Hundreds of rats were watching him with bright , anxious little eyes .
28 All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses .
29 But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous .
30 ‘ Once a mosquito 's bitten you in one spot , it 'll never return .
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