Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 2 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 3 | Going up the seminary hill to his Residence-I do n't think one would be justified in calling it a palace , gracious old house that it was — I felt giddy . |
| 4 | Part of the refugee problem will be solved by granting them the right of return to Palestine ( i.e. the West Bank and Gaza Strip ) or to the Jordanian-Palestinian federation . ’ |
| 5 | One might be excused for wondering what the aged poet really believed . |
| 6 | No progress will be made without agreeing what the fundamental questions and issues really are . ’ |
| 7 | If she were his mother , and he let himself be shot without giving her a last chance of looking into his eyes ? |
| 8 | ‘ She occasionally can be talked into doing something a little silly , but not often . ’ |
| 9 | Resources will be identified by assigning them a unique user-defined code . |
| 10 | Bill Rear has captured the passing years on this line perfectly and his publishers are to be congratulated for allowing him the space in which to present his work . |
| 11 | I have another seven days before Jens 's cousin arrives from the States and finds his would-be protégé has been seduced into giving him the cold shoulder . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 13 | But whether or not they had sufficient power to exert real influence on state policy , the monarchs were justified in considering themselves the most important persons on the European political stage . |
| 14 | The investor if he is going to make money this way , must have a broker who is committed to showing him a profit , as well as earning his commission off him . |
| 15 | The formal literal meaning of the words is the locution ; the act which is performed by saying it the illocution ; a third layer is the perlocution or overall aim of the discourse . |
| 16 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
| 17 | The type payoff is maximized by setting whatever the actions of the other agents ; this is a dominant strategy . |
| 18 | The poor little rich girl who got into the FBI through her father 's influence and who would now be married to some rich Miami socialite had it not been for the timely intervention of Colonel Philpott , who was pressed into giving her a job with UNACO . |
| 19 | The medieval element was a strong influence too : as a result , my mother was cajoled into making me a suede money bag with a draw-string and five polished threepenny bits for sovereigns . |
| 20 | When I was about to take O-level Art and my teacher said I was a disaster , my father was shamed into giving me an intensive course ( 'I ca n't have a daughter not passing ’ ) and taught me painting , pastel drawing , cross-hatching , line drawing . |
| 21 | Quite a number of the students knew no English when they arrived , and the first year was spent in giving them a working knowledge . |
| 22 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |