Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . |
| 32 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 33 | They are turning their backs on the low paid workers . |
| 34 | Sam Keast , assistant commercial manager , said : ‘ We are testing our drivers in a serious way , but it 's also fun . |
| 35 | Writing later , in 1937 , J. B. Priestley 's main concern was to stress the Englishness of Chaplin ( though he did concede that the Chaplin symbol was half-French in inspiration ) and he talked of him as being ‘ the greatest humourist since Dickens ’ and of belonging above all to London 's East End and to ‘ the swarms of bright-eyed urchins who are thumbing their noses at the nearest policemen ’ . |
| 36 | Doctors , nurses , unions , patient groups and even local schoolchildren are adding their voices to the protest . |
| 37 | Here … the payment of the majority of the men each week takes place four and a half thousand men are handed their wages by the pay-clerks in less than ten minutes . |
| 38 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 39 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 40 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 41 | So , Thames police are sharing their skills with the public . |
| 42 | A novel gene has been isolated which maps to the XLA locus , is expressed in B cells , and shows mutations in families with the disorder . |
| 43 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 44 | More generally , if we are to incorporate our results into a theory of ordinary language comprehension , we must explicate the relation between experimental task and the ‘ tasks ’ that people set themselves in ordinary reading and listening . |
| 45 | Some schools auction off the gifts at the end of the service but if the bid for the produce does n't equal the cost price parents can become upset when other , possibly more prosperous , families are buying their gifts at a discount ! |
| 46 | And Cardiff coaching organiser Alex Evans knows his side must win if they are to justify their claims to the All-Whites ' throne . |
| 47 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 48 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 49 | I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket . |
| 50 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 51 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 52 | Was a polite Behaviour joined to that honest Sincerity and social Disposition which is remarkable in the English Sailors , I think they would not only be the most useful Men in the Island , but by much the most agreeable Companions : For this Reason , I would recommend it to Parents who are to breed their Sons to the Sea , to give them an early Taste of Letters , especially the European Tongue , which will be of great Service to their Business as well as polish their Manners " . |
| 53 | Local police are continuing their investigations into the incident . |
| 54 | , Villagers are continuing their protests against the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada river in central India [ see ED No. 48 ] despite the danger posed to their village by water building up behind the half-completed dam . |
| 55 | A team of Swiss researchers , however , has been focusing its efforts on the self-replication of closed , spherical structures by developing a so-called ‘ autopoietic ’ system . |
| 56 | We shall be drawing our examples from the professional knowledge , not only of teachers , but of media specialists and librarians , because they have much to suggest to us , and because their contributions within schools and without are important to what can be attempted and achieved . |
| 57 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ We 'll be finalising our plans in the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 58 | Weak or not , in her opinion men should be given their rights as the dominant sex . |
| 59 | The commission would be given its objectives by the Government and would be accountable to it . |
| 60 | Essex Rivers Healthcare health promotion unit will be opening its doors on the day and will welcome smokers wanting advice on how to give up the habit . |