Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 2 | Carbohydrates provide a good energy supply for the body as they 're converted into glucose , but make sure you 're eating it in the right forms . |
| 3 | They 're saving them for the Open . ’ |
| 4 | We 're robbing them from the wild , and including Africa with all this nonsense about saving them from culls , it 's it 's |
| 5 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 6 | Well you 're measuring it in the opposite direction to the way you 're measuring X. |
| 7 | a lot of sixteen year olds are still having trouble with decimals like that and they 're adding them in the wrong place . |
| 8 | If they 're doing it for the right reasons , like the lady over there , a loving couple with a child . |
| 9 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 10 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 11 | So there is a shortage of hard information in some areas , er , it is a changing situation , and it is one where the Committee is under very clear instruction to extend the alternative care options that it gives to clients , and therefore that again is a complexity in terms of your ability to ensure you 've got adequate funding and are directing it in the right areas in , in order to meet , not only the needs of people out there , but the changing needs and what is , Mike has already referred to as being the preferred solutions erm , many of which have not been available to people in the past . |
| 12 | ‘ The only difference between Lee and Roy Keane and David Hirst is that they are doing it in the Premier League . |
| 13 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 14 | I said to Claire , I said , I 'm sticking them in the wrong one . |
| 15 | I 'm representing you as the consultative . |
| 16 | So I would venture to suggest that if I 'm interviewing you as the Environmental Health Officer for a particular council on a council matter , then I would expect you to only speak on behalf of the council — unless I asked you whether your professional body was happy with your council 's policy . |
| 17 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
| 18 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 19 | Property shares will get a shot-in-the-arm should one of their over-geared number announce that its bankers are backing it into the New Year , rather than pulling the plug . |