Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COMPANY is threatening to axe half its workforce unless it is paid more than £20,000 claimed to be owed them by Liverpool City Council . |
| 2 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 3 | No true blue inhabitant of Paradise Street or Mouncy Street ever needed to be told anything from the police ; they had ways of finding out . ) |
| 4 | I just wondered what those contexts and you will be bound to be asked it in council if it 's not asked now . |
| 5 | Their hatred of exploitation and their knowledge of western capitalism and the socialist movement it had brought into being led them to utopian socialist illusions . |
| 6 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 7 | Come that way er like , they do n't seemed to be giving it to 'em , and it was nothing to do with them , they bought it and , and they would have a search done as the reason when you buy houses are n't there ? |
| 8 | Another child , who survived the bug , was found to be carrying it on July 15 . |
| 9 | Nor did the Flemings feel that he was really supporting them ; he had appeared to be using them for his own ends . |
| 10 | In Britain the only consensus has appeared to be to regard him as an embarrassment . |
| 11 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 12 | The limelight cast on NT-on-Alpha and the number of adjectives spent on it this week is expected to have a negative , if not fatal impact on the rickety ACE Initiative , whose founders , including Compaq and SCO , are perceived to be abandoning it for greener pastures , despite claims to the contrary . |