Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The grass and reeds around me are flattened under the sudden , overnight fall of snow . |
2 | The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations . |
3 | Lying behind my summary evaluations of these theories is the conviction that most of them are fixated around the unhelpful idea that hegemon states exploit other states . |
4 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell ye — nine hundred and ninety-nine of them are glued to the Holy Writ of Economic Theory ; the remaining one , which ought to be fixed on Ireland , is blind . ’ |
5 | Ways of using them are discussed in the next three chapters . |
6 | It is for the security force commanders to ensure that all the resources available to them are used with the maximum effectiveness . |
7 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
8 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
9 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
10 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
11 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
12 | I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime . |
13 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
14 | Having inspected hundreds of buildings of every conceivable age and style , from ancient castle to modern semi , and having supervised the construction , maintenance and preservation of hundreds more , from hi-tech laboratories to family homes , I am struck by the huge difference between the well designed and built , and the badly designed and built , the latter being at the heart of most of the horror stories . |
15 | I am fascinated by the sculptural elements in nature . |
16 | I am attuned to the subtle traffic of the air . |
17 | When I try to use the shared bathroom I am met by the teenage mother — the one with two kids . |
18 | I am positioned between the two chief medical officers and the fourteen nurses , seven male , seven female . |
19 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
20 | The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes . |
21 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
22 | While on the subject of identification , I am reminded of the old lady who , many years ago , before the importation of tortoises was quite rightly banned , purchased one from our pet department . |
23 | Every time I meet her I am thrown on the defensive . |
24 | I am addicted to the twentieth century . |
25 | I am informed by the General Counsel of the Board that on the information available it appears that ‘ A ’ entered into nominee arrangements with the defendant whereby the [ defendants ] gained control of ( or the ability to control ) all of the stock of the two other banks referred to in paragraph 6 above . |
26 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
27 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
28 | The lock clicks back and I am allowed into the inner sanctum . |
29 | He said : ‘ Because of the operation I am restricted in the physical activity I can do , so I was just messing about with music tapes after the operation when I got around to singing . |
30 | ‘ I am come to the right house , then , ’ Theda retorted . |