Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also campaigned against pollution but suffered the irony of being prosecuted himself for pollution in 1857 , which caused him to move his works to Miles Platting . |
| 2 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 3 | Makes a change to be giving it to a real postman . |
| 4 | He seems at times to be reassuring himself of his grip upon a world of his own devising . |
| 5 | The police have no call to be pinning it on Harry . ’ |
| 6 | British Columbia 's powerful timber industry — led by MacMillan Bloedel , the company that will be doing much of the cutting in Clayoquot — feigned relief at being given anything at all while bemoaning the loss of jobs that the mild restrictions would cause . |
| 7 | ‘ But if it 's the giants you 're wanting to fool , then it 'd be the grand old Draoicht Suan , ’ said Pumlumon , and the Gnomes nodded sagely and said that would be it , the Draoicht Suan it would be , the spell that had kept the Trees fast asleep for so many years now , and was n't it a powerful strong spell and Pumlumon the fellow to be spinning it for them all ? |
| 8 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 9 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |
| 10 | For liberty to be opposing it in the way that they are shows that they do n't remotely understand the best interests of our children or our schools . |