Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle . |
| 2 | For women it matters less whether they are referred to a gynaecologist or a urologist than that they are referred to someone with an interest in urinary incontinence . |
| 3 | The courses are designed for anyone in the voluntary sector who is unsure how the changes will affect them or who simply wants to be better informed . |
| 4 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 5 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 6 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 7 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 8 | Hippopotamuses are not regarded as an endangered species , and in some areas of Tanzania and elsewhere in east and southern Africa , are seen as something of a nuisance . |
| 9 | However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality . |
| 10 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 11 | ECOLOGICAL Development , an organisation set up to promote environmentally-friendly housing , are looking for anyone with a desire to build their own home in a ‘ Green Village ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 13 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 14 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 15 | If you 're speaking to someone on the phone and you want to forward that phone call to somebody else ? |
| 16 | But , what I 'm saying is , if you , salesmen particularly get one , you 'll need one to get round the country your patch , but you need to get familiar with the towns up and down the country for deli , for delivery , cos your customers will talk about the area and you 're talking to someone from a transport café , you have n't got a clue where the towns are . |
| 17 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 18 | We 're talking about something in the region of four thousand pounds to do the the loose-leaf brochure and seven sheets . |
| 19 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 20 | ‘ What in the world are you two talking of ? ’ interrupted Rose , whose perplexed gaze had been going from one to the other . |
| 21 | Down are going through something of an identity crisis in that their form fluctuates wildly from week to week . |
| 22 | On another machine I had , which was operated in a rather dusty atmosphere , an intermittent failure report from the operating system seemed totally inexplicable except for a light layer of dust which had been deposited over everything inside the system box . |
| 23 | The hon. Member 's limited range of adjectives will have been noted by everyone in the House . |
| 24 | Why , then , does a contemplation of his life and work leave us feeling zestful rather than discouraged , as if we have been brushed by someone with an incorrigible belief in happiness ? |
| 25 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 26 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 27 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 28 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 29 | The service is excellent and very personal too — morning and afternoon tea are brought to one on a tray . |
| 30 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |