Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 4 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 5 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 6 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur . |
| 13 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's cos you 're using it for an improper |
| 16 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 17 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 18 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 19 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 20 | When they measure your speed , they 're measuring your velocity really , they 're measuring it in a particular direction , along that road . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 23 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 24 | We 're moving you to a safe house in Wapping . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're asking me for a snap judgement , Miss Levington ? ’ |
| 26 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 27 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 28 | They 're talking about going with us certainly , but they 're doing it in a positive way because they see what the future is . |
| 29 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 30 | So we 're showing it in a peaceful way because in the end of course we can destroy by the ballot and not the bullet . |