Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 3 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 4 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 5 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 6 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 7 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 8 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 9 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 10 | ‘ We are are building democracy on a slippery surface , ’ says Mr Petr Pithart , the premier of the Czech lands ( Bohemia and Moravia ) . |
| 11 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 12 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 13 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 14 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 15 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 16 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |
| 17 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 18 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 19 | Investment trusts are in fact very active in the market for new issues of shares and in this respect are channelling funds to ultimate borrowers . |
| 20 | If you are accepting instructions on behalf of a partnership , it is again a good idea to check that the person who approaches you has authority to act on their behalf . |
| 21 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 22 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 23 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 24 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 25 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 26 | Certainly it is in the private sector , where the only bribe that counts is low prices , where fierce competition and price wars have been wreaking havoc among Europe 's surviving computer makers . |
| 27 | Whenever the result of the development of node k is that two new branches are grown , the up- and down-nodes are assigned values of and ( where x r is the branching variable ) respectively . |
| 28 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 29 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 30 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |