Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that pocket money increases in the north are outstripping those in the south , in a strange reversal of trends . |
| 2 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 3 | Here details are given both of the executive at the PR consultancy working on the account and the relevant executive at the client company . |
| 4 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 5 | Biazon had been given much of the credit for the successful loyalist defence of Camp Aguinaldo during the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 6 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 7 | Seldon 's plan gets the boot and cosmic — if not terrifically original — concepts are bandied all in the manner of Greek plays where Messengers arrive to report an offstage battle . |
| 8 | Automobiles , machinery , electronics , chemicals and many others are somewhere in the middle : the choices made by individual firms are scattered all across the map . |
| 9 | We know the Germans are contributing most of the money . ’ |
| 10 | In Schedule 2 are included some of the minority community languages e.g. , Hindi , Bengali , Panjabi , Gujarati , Urdu . |
| 11 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 12 | They are training some of the region 's future central bankers . |
| 13 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 14 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 15 | I am writing this on the train to London , carrying me on smooth , oiled wheels away from the pain , the exhaustion , and , above all , the one worth-while thing I ever did — or tried to do — in my life . |
| 16 | I am writing this in the mid-summer of 1986 , feeling strong and well and scheduled to make a return visit to my surgeon in just ten days time . |
| 17 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 18 | From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month . |
| 19 | So they 're getting half from the plan , and half from their employer . |
| 20 | ‘ The year has started a bit stronger , so we 're hoping that with the end of the VAT threat for the meanwhile and after two lean years , this will continue . ’ |
| 21 | So you 're proposing that from the chair ? |
| 22 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 23 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 24 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 25 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 26 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 27 | Here they are shown some of the paper archives in the National Geosciences Data Centre . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |