Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot had long been accumulating the anthropological knowledge which would affect the literature of his own future . |
| 2 | Ms Jerry Hall , the Texan mannequin delivered of her third child , has been articulating the deep relationship she shares with Mr Michael Jagger , the confectionery-loving vocal stylist with the Rolling Stones ( a once popular beat ensemble , M' lud ) . |
| 3 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |
| 4 | I like the region a great deal and erm am enjoying the stimulating atmosphere which I 've come into . |
| 5 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 6 | Erm , we 're , we 're using the same agenda which is why conf confusion about venue on the front cos I said to my secretary |
| 7 | So you 're asking the wrong person I 'm afraid for that one . |
| 8 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 9 | Trained by Peter Monteith at Rosewell , just outside Edinburgh , the nine-year-old has been waiting the good ground he will encounter today and , in the words of his trainer , with prizes going down to £4,000 for fourth place and £600 for sixth , ‘ it would be mad not to run him ’ . |
| 10 | Version 1.0 of the joint Microsoft Corp-Intel Corp Windows Telephony application programming interface is available immediately : some 40 companies are supporting the new standard which will enable users to gain direct access to telephone networks from database managers , personal information managers , spreadsheets , and word processors . |
| 11 | Equally I believe that local communities too must feel that the police are to them if they are to give the positive help which the police need to successfully detect and prosecute the criminals who prey on them . |
| 12 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 13 | Fortunately , computer buyers are spared the one thing which afflicts consumers of prestige-based goods : computer brand names do n't confer any status unless you 're one of those nerds who hangs out with hackers and reckons that one 's image is enhanced by owning Conner , ATI , Logitech or whatever . |
| 14 | It is a shame that you have n't been having the gorgeous autumn which we have enjoyed . |
| 15 | And in the eighties , unemployed girls who 've never experienced economic independence are doing the only thing they can — having babies , either getting married or not , but often staying with their mam and dad , and quite soon getting a council house . |
| 16 | If you are not too bothered erm , if you do n't know a priori where the break comes , you can just split the sample size in half and just estimate erm an equation for each , not less , you wo n't but the computer will , if you just specify half the sample size , right , and when it asks for the number of observations failure or Chow tests you just press the return key and it will use all the remaining observations , right , but when you are doing the empirical work you should always test for structural stability , right , and er either of Chow 's tests will , will suffice , right , but if you 've got a very small stock sample where there are fewer observations than there are parameters to be estimated you will have to use Chow 's second test failure . |
| 17 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 18 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 19 | As Freud has been so greatly misunderstood , especially in his more speculative sociological work , this type of exposition seems necessary if his theory is to be given the serious consideration it deserves , and which sociology needs . |
| 20 | A rather more promising approach might be to treat the existential quantifier itself as a kind of predicate — a second-level predicate to be precise — which , in our example above , says something about the " first-level " predicate " is human " , namely that the latter can be completed to produce a true proposition . |
| 21 | Cost-saving exercises may not be tackling the real problem which is the need for a structural change . |
| 22 | I 'll be running the other way you 'd think there 'd be loads of people going to pubs and stuff would n't you ? |
| 23 | If this figure applied to the county as a whole then the criticisms which were used to attack progressive methods were quite unjustified ; far too few schools had embraced Plowden for them to be having the catastrophic influence which their detractors attributed to them . |
| 24 | Against this must be weighed the economic instability which will occur as countries lose the ability to manage their economies according to their own individual needs . |
| 25 | It could even now be starting the greatest revolution our British culture has ever known . |
| 26 | The newsletter commented : ‘ Clearly , a pretty strict observance of the new March production limits will be required to dissipate the impact of the February overhang and make any kind of a positive impression on a market which already seems to be losing the bullish tone which was in evidence after the mid-February OPEC accord . ’ |
| 27 | And after that er we shall be taking the running order which is then a sketch next , which is not cast yet |
| 28 | This is made easier by the shift in the ideological climate discussed earlier , since to be too soft on those convicted would be to prolong the permissive trend which had led to the high crime levels and the chronic economic problems . |
| 29 | It is our contention that architectural conservation should be accorded the same consideration which is already being shown to the conservation of other resources , both natural and man-made , and for the same reasons . |
| 30 | Abbreviations , symbols , units and greek letters should be identified the first time they are used . |