Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [be] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes my h my ex-husband was paying maintenance through a court order and his maintenance payments have increased er enormously under the Child Support Agency , the reason being erm under the old court system all his debts were taken into account . |
| 2 | Is it surprising that my offcivers are losing faith in the criminal justice system . |
| 3 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |
| 4 | ‘ As I understand it , my friend was having trouble with a soldier . |
| 5 | Well having er carried this appliance nine flights of stairs to the ninth floor of the flat erm my objective was to gain entry into the flat onsh , sorry once the okay was given erm , again the objective was to gain entry into the flat as quickly and as quietly as possible er , by my mistake the equipment was not placed one hundred percent correctly and began to malfunction. er It started to make er a bit of a whirring noise , and a bit of a loud noise and again the objective was to gain entry quickly and quietly . |
| 6 | My mother was preparing food for a party . |
| 7 | We have a fox that lives near us and I have spent many a night and a morning watching it frolicking and jumping about and it breaks my heart to think that many of its kind are suffering death at its worst . |
| 8 | One way to seek their protection was to do business with them . |
| 9 | Its function is to stop injury to staff and prisoners alike . |
| 10 | Its function is to provide training for judges , especially for those acting as Assistant Recorders or deputy Registrars , and for lay magistrates ; but also for other judges through refresher seminars , also attended by civil servants . |
| 11 | The pathetic order is marked and its function is to convey emotion of some sort : it may be contrastive or contradictory , for example . |
| 12 | Their struggle was to achieve revolution from below rather than continuity from above . |
| 13 | ‘ Get your hands off me , ’ she said under her breath , but her heart was pumping blood round her body and her hands were already curling on his broad shoulders . |
| 14 | Birmingham specialised in close , dark and filthy courtyards : there were over two thousand of these in the town in the 1830s , and many of their houses were built back to back in order to get the maximum number on to each expensive acre . |
| 15 | Now her schoolmates are raising cash for a CF charity as a tribute to the brave 15-year-old , of Pallister Park , Middlesbrough . |
| 16 | No longer did the garrison feel that their sufferings were taking place for the amusement of the crowd . |
| 17 | BUT WILL FERGIE AND HER ADVISER BE KISSING GOODBYE TO A PAY-OFF ? |
| 18 | When a speaker uses because in normal conversation , it is likely that her intention is to communicate information about causal direction she wants to inform the hearer that the event mentioned after because is the cause . |
| 19 | Her intention is to gain sponsorship for further such photographic observations of native Africans , South Americans and Asians . |
| 20 | Her intention is to gain sponsorship for further such photographic observations of native Africans , South Americans and Asians . |
| 21 | AN ELDERLY driver who stalled half way across the main road escaped injury when her car was hit broadside by another vehicle . |
| 22 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
| 23 | If they have had difficulty in school they will worry that their child is having difficulty in school . |
| 24 | If they have had difficulty in school they will worry that their child is having difficulty in school . |
| 25 | Perhaps you are one of those parents who await their child 's approaching puberty with apprehension . |
| 26 | This caused considerable apprehension , for the Queen of England had been excommunicated by the Holy Father only three years before , and her privateers were taking revenge on her behalf by acts of piracy against the friends of Rome . |
| 27 | It left him shaken , for the outlines of her plan were taking shape in his mind — exactly as they were in hers . |
| 28 | Their band is called Tribute to Nothing and they 've just released their first single . |
| 29 | Their aim is to give aid to groups of people who are held to be disadvantaged for any reason — because of ethnic origin , sex , sexual preference , age , unemployment or any kind of disability . |
| 30 | At the lower levels their aim was to promote aid from less unfortunate households to the poor and the starving . |