Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 2 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 3 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
| 4 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 5 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 6 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
| 7 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 8 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
| 9 | Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics . |
| 10 | The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort . |
| 11 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 12 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 13 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 14 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 15 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They have suffered so many times in recent years and some think disappointment is staring them in the face again . |
| 18 | The object in this chapter is to convey something of the nature and application of these techniques without going into detailed descriptions . |
| 19 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 24 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 25 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 26 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 27 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 28 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 29 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 30 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |