Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears the Germans are taking over the running of Standard 's European branches . |
| 2 | However , it is an irony , that may referees are blowing up the ruck and maul situation much earlier than before , with the consequence of a plethora of scrummages which is killing the flow of play , and presumably increasing the chances of injury . |
| 3 | The toons are taking over the show Bob Swain on animation after the Roger Rabbit revolution . |
| 4 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 5 | That is why the opposition parties are turning over the prospect that the prime minister , Mr Turgut Ozal , may impose a head of state from his own conservatives . |
| 6 | In the kinds of society in which most of my readers were brought up the coding of behaviour presupposes a sharp division between what goes on within the household and transactions which link the household to the rest of society . |
| 7 | German flares were lighting up the sky behind me as I hurried along the road , keeping close to the houses and in their shadows as much as possible . |
| 8 | The other Frenchmen were retreating up the slope , unwilling to give battle to the greater number of black-uniformed Hussars . |
| 9 | But even as her low , husky voice rang out with the first notes of the song , her eyes were seeking out the stranger , unable to resist his strangely magnetic pull . |
| 10 | All eyes were directed down the garden towards the pool . |
| 11 | With little more than a few snorts and grunts , the lumbering animals were coaxed down the ramp . |
| 12 | Millie 's lids were blinking , and her lips were licking up the salt tears as she brought out , ‘ I … |
| 13 | Currently in Britain , private companies are taking over the running of the big training schemes . |
| 14 | Employee criticisms and concerns are passed up the line to department and directorate management . |
| 15 | The methods used for controlling debate are the power to apply the closure by a simple majority , though normally the majority must consist of a hundred members ; the power to send bills upstairs for their committee stage to a standing committee and the power , when bills are taken on the floor of the House or in committee , to impose a guillotine . |
| 16 | I think it 's important these matters are taken on the floor of the house because they are very , very serious . |
| 17 | She also cites evidence from school inspectors which says that in almost 40 per cent of primary schools parents were topping up the capitation allowance for books and equipment by more than 30 per cent . |
| 18 | A dispute with Telecom engineers is holding up the company 's first link in London , and Mercury 's first inter-city line — which should have been operating by now — will not open until next year . |
| 19 | 6.3 Articles of Association The purpose of the Articles is to set out the manner in which the Company is to be governed and to regulate the relationship between the directors and the different classes of shareholder . |
| 20 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 21 | Teams from Teesside , Durham and Newcastle universities are carrying out the research . |
| 22 | At least not when his creations are going down the Colonel 's own digestive tract . ’ |
| 23 | This is why prosecutions are brought in the name of the Crown . |
| 24 | Grip the club so that your thumbs are extended down the shaft and your palms are facing towards your body . |
| 25 | Four 15 minute collections were taken over the hour . |
| 26 | The Dr'gasians were damping down the fire amid clouds of smoke and steam . |
| 27 | The farmers are carrying on the work in defiance both of cantonal regulations and a supreme court injunction ordering them to stop . |
| 28 | That 's why these computerized route-finders are going up the spout and taking the Glories towards Monument Hill . |
| 29 | Bishop Auckland CID officers are carrying out the investigation . |
| 30 | always spread a and I I was listening to or or during a programme and it said er , we 're always told how firms are going down the shoot ! |