Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want .
2 All of them are suspected of links with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman , a blind Egyptian preacher who lives in New Jersey and urges an Islamic holy struggle against the West and the government of President Hosni Mubarak .
3 Differences between them are assimilated to differences on sex-differentiated traits like masculinity or self-confidence .
4 A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house .
5 Soil tests to discover the pH are easily done , and the kits for doing them are provided with instructions by several garden product companies , and stocked at garden shops .
6 Nearly all of them are bought by adults for themselves .
7 Many of them are held through trusts with names like Jupiter , Venus , and Mars , registered here at Morgan-Grenfell .
8 Some of them are described by Tusser in his Husbandly Furniture :
9 Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned .
10 Wednesday are looking rather lowly , but that I feel is mainly due to early season woes , and as , I am assured from relatives down the M1 , they have a much easier 2nd half of the season .
11 Of Baking , Marie Ure says : ‘ Once again I am lost in admiration at the magnificent response to the appeal , in quantity , in quality and also in imagination .
12 I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet .
13 I have re-read this chapter many times — each time I am filled with thoughts of God 's love .
14 I am filled with admiration for the new headquarters , Monsieur de Chavigny .
15 I hasten to add before I am taken to court by mountain men with beards that this is highly irresponsible behaviour and extremely dangerous .
16 He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing .
17 Each is tarnished by sin and , clothed in these acts of righteousness , I am clothed in rags before Almighty God .
18 I am assailed with feelings of irritation mixed with amusement at the number of pilots who , despite cheerfully paying many hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their chosen hobby , carp on about having to fork out three or four quid over the odds in selected landing fees , or as in the case of correspondent K. Foster £46 for a medical combined with an ECG .
19 O'Leary explains : ‘ I am qualified for Ireland through my dad 's nationality , but I 've always considered myself an Essex man because I was born in Harold Wood . ’
20 She heard that : — — Papa is grown stout and has need of bigger trousers but Mama cries he is more handsome than ever and so do I. I have little time my Lily to write because I am put to Latin with the Abbe which is sore hard work and gives me the headache .
21 I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel .
22 I 'm joined by Frank on the line .
23 Now , on erm the er insurance er the , the pensions and life side then that 's my particular area , and obviously I 'm based in Birmingham for that , although I actually live in Derby .
24 Well I think the answer to that is you 've got to remember this kind of hunting is cooperative and cooperative hunting does rely first of all on having other men to go hunting with you which is , which is important and also or so I 'm told by people like David McKnight and Warren Shapiro an awful lot depends on information , we want to know where the game is , who saw what where , what did they catch you know , was there rainfall over the so and so ranges and so on , and you need to know that information if you 're gon na be an effective hunter and you need good communication with other men .
25 Now I 'm left with loads of software that wo n't load on my 64 .
26 Right after the ground rules are laid down by the station when you go in they say , ‘ What is your title ? ’ and if I 'm interviewed on behalf of the branch P R O I say that , if I 'm an officer of Broadham District Council I say that , so the ground rules are there as to who you 're speaking for when the interview starts .
27 Deep breath , hold it and so on until I 'm photographed from neck to thigh .
28 If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours .
29 If you are dismissed with pay in lieu of notice , or without notice , and you obtain new employment during the notice period , you are bound to bring into account those earnings .
30 You are chosen ; you are elected into love by a secret ballot against which there is no appeal .
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