Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 2 | But , according to other track promoters , Ladbrokes are embargo-busting by giving out this information . |
| 3 | But Mr Hussein is far from giving up , and the Kurds , his victims in the past , may become victims again . |
| 4 | ‘ By that stage ’ , says Neville , ‘ I think Martin was tired of sitting round and vomiting . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Pluto is renowned for bringing up things that are buried , so we are going to see revealed things that have remained secret for years . |
| 6 | It also reflected philosophical scruples since it was n't obvious how a mechanical device could be conscious and , as Descartes is famous for pointing out , the only thing of which we can be certain is that we are conscious . |
| 7 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 8 | He supposed Mr Rose was interested in finding out if he , Marcus , " was " homosexual , and whilst he would have liked to know that himself , and remembered the one explicitly sexual moment of his relations with Lucas with tremors of disgust and anxiety , he had no wish to go into that with Mr Rose . |
| 9 | Hand picking may not be the fastest way to harvest , but as Ernest and Julio are fond of pointing out , it provides the best start a wine can have . |
| 10 | ES is responsible for carrying out Government policies . |
| 11 | The sandy beach on Majorca is ideal for flopping on by day in order to recover in time for the next night of action , and what a night it will be in this town that never sleeps ! |
| 12 | The Wolfcraft Bench Sander is ideal for truing up faces of timber prior to making joints , especially mitre-joints ( ideal for frame makers ! ) |
| 13 | The Council of Churches in Namibia are responsible for setting up repatriation centres but South Africa 's colonial Administration General lAG ) in Namibia is trying to interfere in this process and has even suggested the use of South African military bases for this purpose ! |
| 14 | IDEAL HOME and Vi-Spring are interested in finding out about your bed , whether it 's comfortable and what features you would look for when choosing a new one . |
| 15 | THE BACKERS of an unusual operation to recover tin From mud on the seabed off Cornwall are interested in setting up similar ventures elsewhere . |
| 16 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 17 | The generally low-key Libyan response suggests that Col Gaddafi is intent on riding out the sanctions and does not want to repeat the mistakes of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who provoked the West last year by taking foreign workers hostage as ‘ human shields ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Hellyer was capable of carrying out a simple crime ; he was practically incapable of taking sensible steps to avoid arrest afterwards . |
| 19 | But she added that she understood that AT&T was interested in setting up a competitor to Telecom Eireann . |
| 20 | This was very much the kind of stuff that Quigley was used to dishing out . |
| 21 | Although Cal Arts is now associated with a distinctive West Coast style , Baldessari was influential in bringing in East Coast and European artists — Joseph Kosuth , Robert Smithson , Lawrence Weiner , Daniel Buren , Hans Haacke , Sol LeWitt . |
| 22 | Ideal Home and Goblin are interested in finding out all about your vacuum cleaner , how you use it and the features you would look for when choosing a new model . |
| 23 | Though relieved , and fiercely delighted that she had apparently stopped him in his tracks , Polly was apprehensive about going back up on deck . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Bell is right in pointing out that style shift and code switching are closely related . |
| 25 | The Prince of Wales was involved in setting up the agreement under which , had the sale gone ahead , Crown Estate commissioners would have leased the land to the Nature Conservancy Council and its successor the Scottish Natural Heritage Agency . |
| 26 | Though doubtless partly motivated by a desire to draw the reader away from his own personal life , Eliot was serious in pointing out that , ‘ Anyone who is acquainted with these works [ of Weston and Frazer ] will immediately recognize in the poem certain references to vegetation ceremonies ’ , which , as in the quatrain poems , were associated with religion and human sexuality . |