Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son .
2 The CD3 , which is Ariston 's third CD player in roughly the same number of years ( they all remain available by the way ) heralds no revolution in technology or features , but may be just what you are looking for if the brief is for a medium-price player which will offer musical excellence without frills or complication .
3 The player is seen by Celtic to have the aggression they are looking for as the club struggles badly on and off the park .
4 Now I think that the woman lawyer has been foregrounded as if the law actually does have a part to play .
5 ‘ I do n't know what this is all about , or why you 're acting as if the bogyman is on your heels , but I suppose I 'll have to listen to you . ’
6 I think we 're talking about once the suspension was over
7 and that 's what we 're talking about because the reason why that wonderful piece of work did n't go through priority to set up .
8 You 're thinking about if the ball is coming to you you 're watching the ball .
9 Further questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , he conceded that no such review had taken place , and that no additional safety checks had been called for before the junction was opened , that although a total embargo had been introduced on single-lead junctions immediately after Bellgrove .
10 I have had discussions with the various groups and I am convinced that a solution could have been arrived at if the Minister had arranged for collective discussions to take place .
11 The Accounting Standards Board has issued a statement setting out its policy on the applicability of accounting standards to transactions that had been entered into before the standard had been issued .
12 But then what he then went on to say was , that since only the wife would be able to spend from that account , then put the money after it had been dealt with for the wife 's tax purposes , into a joint account , on which both could draw .
13 There had been trouble there as early as April , but that had been dealt with for the king by Warwick 's brother John Neville .
14 There had been trouble there as early as April , but that had been dealt with for the king by Warwick 's brother John Neville .
15 Consideration should be given to whether the requirement to be mobile could be restricted to particular regions while indicating that faster progression might be achieved by staff who were prepared to be widely mobile .
16 One is to provide that the rent shall be calculated as if the index had not been adjusted .
17 However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous .
18 The point is that reasons that could have been relied upon to justify action before his decision can not be relied upon once the decision is given .
19 Firstly , specific dictionaries can only be relied upon if the domain of the test data has been accurately identified in the first place .
20 Requests for extracts should therefore be addressed to unless the deed has been recorded only recently ( for both Sasine and Books of Council and Session registrations , within the last five months ) .
21 Merger can be applied for when the freehold and leasehold estates become vested in the same person , whether or not both titles are registered .
22 There would therefore be ample time for them to deploy their mobile radiation monitoring teams , for the police to tour the area , knocking on doors and warning people living nearby , for the protective potassium iodate pills to be issued and for a decision to be made on whether the public should stay indoors until the cloud had passed — or evacuate to a safer place .
23 But there is no real decision which has to be made about whether a child should live or die , for nobody has the right to make such a decision .
24 By contrast , if a decision is to be made about whether a pupil is to pass or fail an examination then a boundary would have to be set .
25 There are a few preliminaries to be seen to before the construction can begin ; these are the winding of inductors L1 , L2 , L3 and the mounting details of the switching transistor TR1 and the flyback diode D1 on small heatsinks which attach directly to the board .
26 I have a couple of things that need to be seen to before the programme goes out . ’
27 To be sent wherever the Imperium wishes ; to be done with as the Imperium chooses ? ’
28 This might be according to whether the client is new to the bureau or not , whether the enquiry is new or a continuing problem , or according to a client 's age , sex , origin , economic activity or area of residence .
29 Last night , Mr Baker dismissed questions about the possibility that interest rates could be raised again and refused to be drawn on whether the pound 's dip below DM3 on the exchange markets during the day signalled a change in policy .
30 The donated pony will be cared for until the hospice becomes operational .
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