Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 3 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 4 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 5 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 6 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 7 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 8 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 9 | In effect this means that local people are financing these vandals . |
| 10 | The TCCB , who are financing this year 's competition , have decided that no trophy will be awarded to the winners of the Sunday League . |
| 11 | Congress , I understand the C E C are accepting this resolution for the qualifications so I will be brief . |
| 12 | I believe the C E C are accepting this motion and therefore the principle that 's contained therein . |
| 13 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 14 | British space officials do not expect any major difficulties in finding the money for INTEGRAL , because ESA science programmes are paid out of the subscriptions of member states which are calculated several years in advance . |
| 15 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 16 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 18 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 19 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 20 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 21 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 22 | Proof ( Briefly ) We are given that b — a and c are both in N. Hence by axiom P(ii) ( b-a ) c ε N. It follows * that bc — ac ε N , that is |
| 23 | However , we are given that errors are likely to be proportional to t . |
| 24 | What I did not realise before was that whilst new accounts are given much publicity and the rates of interest are proudly displayed , the accounts of existing investors no longer available to fresh punters are discreetly removed from such lists . |
| 25 | As a rule ten lessons are given each term at a minimum cost of £70.00 per term . |
| 26 | One could then make a multiple stimulus-response drill where two stimuli are given each time , and you have to choose the appropriate verb form . |
| 27 | Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , students are given little instruction on the techniques of making notes . |
| 29 | With a few exceptions , they said , most hornbills in captivity are not breeding , and many are given little chance to , living as they do without a mate or a nestbox . |
| 30 | Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors ' offices . |