Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With more emphasis on household products , does this mean that Marks and Spencer is turning itself into a supermarket ? |
| 2 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 3 | If they do anything which affects anybody , your only recourse is to take them to a High Court for a judicial review . ’ |
| 4 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 5 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 6 | During the filming of another sea-going saga , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 version ) , Charles Laughton upstaged Gable , who complained to director Frank Lloyd , ‘ Laughton 's treating me like an extra . |
| 7 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 8 | The dichotomy between the ‘ British ’ and ‘ Scottish ’ Labour parties is becoming something of a cause celebre is it not ? |
| 9 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 10 | The object in this chapter is to convey something of the nature and application of these techniques without going into detailed descriptions . |
| 11 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 12 | The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative . |
| 13 | Yes , in his own quiet way Summerchild is presenting himself to an audience . |
| 14 | ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot . |
| 15 | Labour has opposed our measures which have led to stiffer sentences , it would shackle the police with political controls and its answer to rising crime is to blame everyone except the criminal . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell him Edward 's turning it into a conservation area for endangered species . |
| 17 | Erm the the er Professor Lock was saying well you know the way you get your footloose industry is to present them with an absolute guarantee of planning permission . |
| 18 | An easier method of installing fabric is to fix it to a frame . |
| 19 | Stylistically , Samson is distancing itself from the very audience it should inspire , but by doing so Milton is helping to avoid potential censorship and a silencing altogether . |
| 20 | The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week . |
| 21 | The ‘ filmic ’ way to shoot a scene is to record it as a series of separate shots taken at different distances and angles . |
| 22 | ‘ A boy is hitting a girl with a flower ’ or ‘ A girl is being hit with a flower by a boy ’ or ‘ There 's a girl , and a boy is hitting her with a flower ’ are all possible examples , and there are many others . |
| 23 | Although people generally consider me to be a very tolerant person , my moody male boss at work is driving me to the end of my tether . |
| 24 | ‘ Captain Hook 's drowned hisself in the river , ’ he babbled . |
| 25 | At the same time , this division is so entrenched in our education system that a student who wishes to cross the cultural boundary and study both areas is considered something of an oddity . |
| 26 | A simple method for remembering the names of the three areas is to associate them with a particular point of the body . |
| 27 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 28 | The definitionalist might seek to save his position by arguing for a general principle of law to the effect that to intend an act is to intend it under a full description and that therefore in all crimes where the actus reus contains not only a conduct element but also circumstances and consequences , mens rea is to be taken as being ‘ coextensive with the actus reus . ’ |
| 29 | Oh , Christ , the cat 's done it outside the tray again … |
| 30 | The railways are now in division three and the government 's plan is to take them into the non-league . |