Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 2 | I am not taking sides in respect of Croatia and Serbia . |
| 3 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 4 | Several young whites are already serving terms of imprisonment for refusing to serve . |
| 5 | The new regimes of Fansidar ( pyrimethamine + sulphadoxine ) and Maloprim ( pyrimethamine + dapsone ) are already showing signs of failure and virtually only one new synthetic drug , mefloquine ( structurally related to quinine ) remains . |
| 6 | When she and her husband Bob are not taking breaks to beauty spots such as their beloved Weymouth , Betty fills her time quilling . |
| 7 | As he has been discovering , the issues which excite New Yorkers are not rising levels of crime , poverty and the deteriorating quality of life . |
| 8 | But we are not talking terms of plot one and plot two we 're simply saying |
| 9 | People tend to think , because they are not doing sums on paper they are not learning maths — but they are . ’ |
| 10 | They are not swilling horns of ale but chewing betel . ) |
| 11 | You are usually given problems in advance , and will be asked to give your solutions and how you arrived at them . |
| 12 | Unless a union is negotiating with a monopoly corporation or with companies which are collectively violating standards of decency and justice in their own employment practices , the outcome of such a bargain must of necessity be unjust . |
| 13 | In spite of the problems associated with the new system of funding , the universities are busily making plans for expansion . |
| 14 | There are also planned changes within community living which are likely to have significant implications as ‘ different ’ client groups such as ex-patients from long-stay hospitals move into the community . |
| 15 | They 're becoming ever more popular as tools to repay mortgages in place of endowment policies , while some of the more adventurous plan managers are also building PEPs into school fee and retirement planning . |
| 16 | Detectives are also viewing hours of video tape from cameras covering the grounds of the four offices involved . |
| 17 | And John Smith , coach to US Olympic champions Quincy Watts and Kevin Young , who are also backing moves for change , warned : ‘ A boycott of the Stuttgart games is still an option . ’ |
| 18 | There are also career opportunities in teaching and planning , although these have accounted recently for less than 10 per cent of Geography graduates . |
| 19 | Other governments have viewed the spontaneous housing settlements as wretched areas , which not only house society 's drop-outs , but are also breeding grounds for crime and radical political activity The Brazilian government has tried to eradicate the squatter settlements for these reasons , which is especially the case in Rio de Janeiro , because of the added factor that it is an international tourist centre and the favelas are so visible on the steep hillsides behind the luxury hotels and beaches . |
| 20 | Unlike previous operating system releases , which are often handcrafted patchworks of technology , Solaris is an assembly of working , tested and quality-checked components , Bourne declares , and the thing undergoes some 40,000 tests . |
| 21 | Besides the Dresser drawings , the Met 's exhibition features other notable groups of designs , which Johnson has tellingly juxtaposed with similar examples by different ‘ schools ’ : several rug designs by 1920s British designer Eileen Gray are placed near a group of anonymous Bauhaus rug designs which strongly suggest Klee ; fabric patterns by such diverse talents as the American painter Stuart Davis , French couturier Paul Poiret and anonymous masters from the Wiener Werkstatte are remarkably similar , as are finely finished watercolours for furniture by the American L. and J.G. Stickley Company and Swedish designer Erik Gunnar Asplund . |
| 22 | There has been a fall out with the grass court tournaments as the better juniors are now seeking matches on cement to prepare them for the nationals at Nottingham . |
| 23 | The reform of both workforce training and of pre-vocational preparation in schools , in order to raise productivity , are now accepted priorities of government policies . |
| 24 | Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's . |
| 25 | There are now milking herds in North and South America , Jamaica , Australia and East Africa and the breed is also found in New Zealand , South Africa , Zimbabwe , Germany and Romania . |
| 26 | The essence of the fraud is the offer of cheap finance : brokers all over the country are now offering companies in need the chance to borrow at 8.75 p.c . |
| 27 | Mock solemnity of this kind may seem rather tiresome , just as practical jokes are often not funny to those on whom they are played ( they may often appear to be lightly camouflaged forms of aggression ) , but such jokes were characteristic of the society in which he now moved : it is difficult to imagine him playing tricks on Pound or Lewis , for example . |
| 28 | Those curtains are called ‘ precipitation ’ by meteorologists and are fast falling products of condensation in the atmosphere of rain , hail or snow . |
| 29 | Both are today showing signs of weakness , but they are still far short of the east-coast mess . |
| 30 | Some are even chasing orders from Airbus , Boeing 's European rival . |