Example sentences of "be [verb] [det] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that pocket money increases in the north are outstripping those in the south , in a strange reversal of trends . |
| 2 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 3 | Here details are given both of the executive at the PR consultancy working on the account and the relevant executive at the client company . |
| 4 | In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . |
| 5 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 6 | Biazon had been given much of the credit for the successful loyalist defence of Camp Aguinaldo during the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 7 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 8 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 9 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 10 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 11 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 12 | Seldon 's plan gets the boot and cosmic — if not terrifically original — concepts are bandied all in the manner of Greek plays where Messengers arrive to report an offstage battle . |
| 13 | If liability rules are to perform any of the functions mentioned there must be at least some prospect of their being enforced . |
| 14 | I give credit to the people of those regions who , as we have seen , are realising some of the follies of the past . |
| 15 | Automobiles , machinery , electronics , chemicals and many others are somewhere in the middle : the choices made by individual firms are scattered all across the map . |
| 16 | We know the Germans are contributing most of the money . ’ |
| 17 | In Schedule 2 are included some of the minority community languages e.g. , Hindi , Bengali , Panjabi , Gujarati , Urdu . |
| 18 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 19 | They are training some of the region 's future central bankers . |
| 20 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 21 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 22 | By the way , I am writing this with the Edding 1800 pen I recently won in one of your competitions . |
| 23 | I am writing this on the train to London , carrying me on smooth , oiled wheels away from the pain , the exhaustion , and , above all , the one worth-while thing I ever did — or tried to do — in my life . |
| 24 | I am writing this in the mid-summer of 1986 , feeling strong and well and scheduled to make a return visit to my surgeon in just ten days time . |
| 25 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 26 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 27 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 28 | ‘ I see your point about Philippe , but I do n't see why you 're keeping this from the police , ’ said Jack . |
| 29 | From the time of the marriage he cut himself off entirely from his brother , but it was n't only from Matthew : he became more and more of a recluse until now he hardly sees anyone but the people he meets in the course of his business — and they 're getting fewer by the month . |
| 30 | So they 're getting half from the plan , and half from their employer . |