Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun pl] [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 | THE two winners of round-the-world holidays in our exclusive Courtauld News competition are finalising plans for their dream trips in February . |
| 3 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 4 | Are building programmes for the next financial year drawn up in time to be available to managers before holidays are allocated ? |
| 5 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 6 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 7 | There 's the ex-taxi driver , the chicken farmer and the house decorator who are building robots in their spare time for space projects . |
| 8 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |
| 9 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At regular intervals on the circle are placed pictures of uniform size , either related to a central theme or without any specific relationship . |
| 16 | Underwater there are hidden dangers for river-life . |
| 17 | What is more , there are hidden dangers in following the " in rough then neat " approach . |
| 18 | We must search even where we least expect to find riches ; just as there are hidden joys in one 's own pain and suffering , there are subtle delights in the compassion and pity aroused by other men 's Gethsemanes — their gardens of sorrows . |
| 19 | When babies are given bottles in the neo natal period , their mothers ' breast milk is not stimulated and breastfeeding falls . |
| 20 | The corporations are imposed by central government and are given powers of land and development that have been seen as ‘ staggering ’ ( Cullingworth , 1985 , p. 282 ) . |
| 21 | If , however , these unfortunate patients are given transfusions of white cells from several incompatible donors during pregnancy , they carry normal babies to term Why ? |
| 22 | Problematic employees are given letters of counselling which are filed in an unfavourable information folder . |
| 23 | The first of these is the bit-pattern index , in which all the alternative descriptors for each record are given values of 1 if the attribute is present and 0 if it is not . |
| 24 | Simple photographs , perceived to have little artistic quality are afforded copyright protection for only twenty-five years after death whereas editorial photographs and ‘ artistic ’ photographs are given periods of protection of fifty years and seventy years after death , respectively . |
| 25 | Some of them are given diplomas for doing this , so they can then prove how expert they are in disability matters . |
| 26 | Typically , a project organisation might be set up in which LIFESPAN users are given positions in the hierarchy according to their work and may assume an appropriate pseudonym . |
| 27 | The formula links firefighters ' pay to the top quarter of male manual earnings but the Government is insisting all public sectors workers are given rises of no more than 1.5 per cent this year . |
| 28 | Girls are given names like " Slippery Eel " or " Downy Bird 's Nest " , and boys get names such as " Tall Bamboo " or " Twelve Times " . |
| 29 | For example , some of our greatest melodies are given settings of the greatest simplicity , and to add ‘ counterpoints ’ would rob the music of some of its beauty . |
| 30 | The low through each event and day is here clearly expressed as the texts are given settings for the people as well as choirs . |