Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 2 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 3 | Two hundred and ninety people are to lose their jobs with the closure of one of the country 's leading leather manufacturers . |
| 4 | During June and July many artists living and working in East and South East London have been opening their studios to the public , coordinated and publicised by the Whitechapel Gallery . |
| 5 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 6 | So to raise funds , some of the villagers are opening their gardens to the public on Saturday . |
| 7 | My answer to this criticism was that teachers of English are virtually unanimous in their enthusiasm for literature , but need persuasion if they are to accept our recommendations for the teaching of grammar , Standard English and knowledge about language . |
| 8 | And finally , surfers and canoeists have been pitting their skills against the biggest River Severn tidal wave of the year . |
| 9 | Legal and General Property have been presented their plans to the City Lands Policy Group and traders at the centre . |
| 10 | The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left . |
| 11 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 12 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 13 | At present all CAD companies are pushing their techniques from the low to the mid level of involvement . |
| 14 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 15 | At the moment you 're cre , you 're cor , , you 're correcting your procedures on the basis of auditing and finding out what we 're not doing instead of really thinking about them . |
| 16 | ‘ See you 're doing your rounds with the first night presents . ’ |
| 17 | He says we predict that a reservoir of this size will be essential if we 're to supply our customers with the water the need . |
| 18 | And it 's dangerous ground , because before you know it they 're not just honouring millionaires by putting their names on degrees , they 're putting their names over the door . |
| 19 | They 're depriving their children of the maternal love that is the child 's by right . |
| 20 | He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . |
| 21 | They are turning their backs on the low paid workers . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Doctors , nurses , unions , patient groups and even local schoolchildren are adding their voices to the protest . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So , Thames police are sharing their skills with the public . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And Cardiff coaching organiser Alex Evans knows his side must win if they are to justify their claims to the All-Whites ' throne . |