Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plans are to travel the entire world with my record . |
| 2 | My sister is getting the compact disc for five hundred and ninety nine pound and I 'm only |
| 3 | She did , and my appendix was removed the next morning . |
| 4 | My carriage is waiting the other side of the field ! |
| 5 | ‘ My Ernie 's joined the Communist Party , ’ she announced gravely . |
| 6 | ‘ From the time I was a child my dream was to win the Grand National and the biggest thing I 've gained from it is confidence . |
| 7 | ‘ My incentive was to get the young man to … trust me . ’ |
| 8 | I wait until my husband 's doing the late shift , and I wait until the children have gone to bed , and I sit down in front of the television . |
| 9 | Today , my job is operating the big industrial vacuum cleaner , to clear an the crap between the rafters and joists while Pa deals with the cutting and cutting . |
| 10 | Feeling in one of the pockets I found a black eye patch for added colour and realised that my crew were endorsing the senior officer 's joke about piracy in the Channel . |
| 11 | As National Development Officer my remit is to co-ordinate the central development of the Higher National Units which will be structured round competencies which have been identified following consultation with industrialists , the Lead Industry Body and Professional Associations . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I would love to have raced at Mondello Park in the European series , but it clashes with the opening round of the British Championship at Knockhill in Scotland and my priority is to learn the British tracks as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 14 | Rather , my concern is to identify the salient characteristics of a place that might be called upon , singly or together , in any analyses which seek — like those in chapters 4 and 5 — to understand the nature of spatial variability and spatial change . |
| 15 | My idea is to get the whole ballet worked out as a mere skeleton , and then embroider it when the cast know it . ’ |
| 16 | Its objects are to unite the deaf and dumb and all interested in them , advance and protect their interests , elevate their social status , secure better and higher education for them , afford to anyone information as to their condition , education , etc. , establish missions in places where none exist , and last of all to assist by means of pensions the most deserving aged and infirm deaf and dumb , and so prevent them , in many instances , from drifting into the workhouse . |
| 17 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 18 | Their presence was given the utmost publicity , and soon their numbers ( and the numbers of a mythical Russian landing force ) menacing his armies ' rear , had multiplied in Moltke 's fretful imagination into a mighty host . |
| 19 | Their responsibility is to make the maximum profit for their owners . |
| 20 | However , studies have revealed that phosphorylation has no measurable effect on the DNA binding properties of Sp1 , suggesting that its function is to regulate the transcriptional activation potential of this factor ( 4 ; T.Gottlieb and S.Jackson , unpublished data ) . |
| 21 | Its function is to retrieve the phonological forms of the content words ( nouns , verbs , adjectives or adverbs ) whose abstract codes were selected from the lexicon earlier on . |
| 22 | Her plans were overthrown the first day when the president requested that she should be chaplain . |
| 23 | Their effect is to reduce the average loss arising for the UK from membership of the EC . |
| 24 | First introduced in 1976 , the 405 proved to be one of Quad 's most successful products and was the first of their amplifier 's to use the famous ‘ Current Dumping ’ circuit for which the company was awarded the Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement . |
| 25 | The Allies kept certain reserved powers ( including control of foreign policy ) under an Occupation Statute but their practice was to give the new German government as much independence as possible . |
| 26 | The accountants ' view tended towards an acceptance of them as an inevitable consequence of credit trading and their remedy was to increase the bad debt provisions . |
| 27 | One the other side of the coin , there are some parents who believe that their LEAs are ignoring the new law . |
| 28 | Why , to her beloved gracious master and thus the naughty assailer of her innocence is become the gracious protector and rewarder of it . |
| 29 | Their plan is to hold the Western powers to ransom with the threat of using atomic bombs stolen during a NATO training mission — unless they receive £1million in diamonds . |
| 30 | The parent is captured and its offspring are given the same marks ; one nick on each side of the upper beak for the Vintners ; one on one side for the Dyers ; none at all for the Royal cygnets . |