Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 2 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 3 | Stage I sleep is defined in terms of the EEG and EOG records as consisting of a low voltage EEG with some slow activity , and occasional vertex sharp waves , and slow rolling eye movements ( see example . ) |
| 4 | Furthermore , almost all of the residential care they supply is provided under contract to local authority social services departments . |
| 5 | All calls cost are charged at 36p per minute ( cheap rate ) and 48p ( at all other times ) |
| 6 | When the systems manger is stressed by complaints about the slowing access times on the system he may send out warning messages and then complete a tape dump of all documents last accessed before a certain date . |
| 7 | Recall was aided by use of a pictorial daily health diary , on which mothers were taught to record that the child was healthy or to mark the occurrence of diarrhoea , cough , or any other illness . |
| 8 | Recall was scored in terms of the number of ideas expressed in the passage which a subject was able to remember . |
| 9 | If students can argue for the project 's viability , through research and costings , then finance is released for production by a commercial printer and the students follow through their marketing plan in order to recoup the investment . |
| 10 | Miller ( 1951 ) states that " the information we convey is coded into patterns of words . |
| 11 | Now they import flax , mainly from Scandinavia , and much of the cloth they weave is made from mixtures of flax or cotton and artificial fibres such as nylon , Terylene and Acrilan . |
| 12 | ‘ However , British Coal believe that plans for major new investments have to be reviewed in the light of the changing market conditions , which I understand is happening at Point of Ayr . ’ |
| 13 | The most important fund was the theoric , from which pay was given for attendance at festivals . |
| 14 | The case of Martin Smid — the student whom thousands believe was beaten to death by the riot police just down the road last Friday — was raised . |
| 15 | Bicker was conferring with Tagan about the way to the north . |
| 16 | People who want to keep their hard-won independence and who fear being betrayed into union with Europe by treacherous politicians . |
| 17 | It is possible to consider a situation where most franchises remain being run by groups of B R managers and a few franchises are run by private sector companies . |
| 18 | ‘ All we do is go in convoy with a lorry or two . |
| 19 | It was obviously not made clear to you that the so called Collateral Agreement should have been signed ‘ Under Seal ’ , by which I presume is meant in front of a Notary Public . |
| 20 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 21 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 22 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 25 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 26 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 27 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs . |
| 29 | A family who 've been saved from eviction by an anonymous donor say it 's the best Christmas present they could have hoped for . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been thinking about Sam in the same way as Maurice and Beatrix recently . |