Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 2 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 3 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 4 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 5 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 6 | And the way the management work in here , I can say is they , aim they 're promoting anybody to a chargehand they usually promote somebody that 's actually no threat to themselves . |
| 7 | Normally you would n't be seen dead doing a knees bend keeping your back straight , but if you 're getting something off the bottom shelf you wo n't look ridiculous at all . |
| 8 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
| 9 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 10 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 11 | The North and central sides , among them Bangor City and Newtown with top reputations earned in English leagues , are facing nothing but the wooden spoon . |
| 12 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 13 | That younger element , are doing something for the local community . |
| 14 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 15 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 16 | Whereas in Los Angeles I manipulated costly hot and cold water in appropriate vessels throughout the house , Bali is a network of streams and rivers which , like veins and arteries , must be distinguished one from the other for their various uses . |
| 17 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm expecting something from an old friend and I just remembered he only has this address for me . ’ |
| 19 | The thing is they wo n't be going shopping , they wo n't be doing anything for a long time and she 's |
| 20 | Putting this point on a more theoretical level , the musical field and the class structure at any given moment , though clearly not unconnected , comprise different ‘ maps ’ of social/cultural space , and they can not be reduced one to the other ( see Williams 1981 ) . |
| 21 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
| 22 | Independent software vendors will be charged nothing until the second year when a $2,500 fee per company will be levied . |
| 23 | if it was the national advertising campaign and knowing and er basically then , I would n't of thought I 'd be talking anything above a hundred thousand , I would and , and I ca n't remember the exact figure but given |
| 24 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 25 | Not that I will be changing anything in the immediate area of the shelf at the base of which the bait lies , but I thought it better to give the carp a profound liking for the swim before even one stalk of rush or one lily pad was removed . |
| 26 | Visible now only in the panoramic view , the young woman appeared to be throwing something towards the few remaining Counsellors . |
| 27 | In an atmosphere so heady with romance , in a climate so receptive to gothic detail and intricate workmanship , jewellery and its design were to enjoy something of a golden age . |
| 28 | There are , for example , far too many films portraying psychopaths , homicidal maniacs and serial killers , the audience being spared none of the morbid details . |
| 29 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 30 | Is this independent , single parent who does n't stand for any of Barry Brant 's messin' anything like the real Hilary ? |