Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 4 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 5 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 6 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 7 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 8 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 9 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 10 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 11 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 12 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 13 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 14 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 15 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 16 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 17 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 18 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 19 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 20 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 21 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 22 | The key seems to be shaping it to the particular client . |
| 23 | I 'm representing you as the consultative . |
| 24 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 25 | So I would venture to suggest that if I 'm interviewing you as the Environmental Health Officer for a particular council on a council matter , then I would expect you to only speak on behalf of the council — unless I asked you whether your professional body was happy with your council 's policy . |
| 26 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 27 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 28 | if you 're gon na plan bare rooted trees and stuff you 've got ta be doing it in the dormant season , so you 're talking October , November possibly October . |
| 29 | Mr Sabin 's family has been in the publishing and bookselling business since 1865 and his son Mark will be joining him in the new venture , together with David Fuller , another former Ackermann director . |
| 30 | now if we 've got a tap handy probably the best thing would be to run it under the cold tap and that hopefully would take away any dirt and extra bits and pieces that are stuck around it . |