Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has happened when I have been catching plenty of barbel , with no breakages , and the matchmen have asked me what I have been using . |
| 2 | It is made up of a number of bones ( vertebrae ) which are placed one on top of another . |
| 3 | Documents are placed one on top of the other in drawers or box files . |
| 4 | This happens when a succession of items are placed one after another in a sentence without words to indicate their order or importance . |
| 5 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 6 | The Irish are seeing something of a cricketing revival … it 's the fastest growing sport in their home country , and they feel confident about taking on the World 's best . |
| 7 | Next , if you are using lots of fonts — but only a few at a time — you should combine blocks of fonts into Suitcases and then use one or other of the utilities such as Suitcase to manage them for you . |
| 8 | Er er simply er that the various upper case items which are listed one to twelve , are backed up in lower case script . |
| 9 | They are between the hills and the Forth and are sparing nothing in Lothian , from the east coast to Dunedin . |
| 10 | They are taught nothing about helping people to die . |
| 11 | We 've been doing this for sometime , it does n't really seem to have taken too much effect , now at the moment we 've been channelling everything through Julian and Jonathan . |
| 12 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 13 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 14 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 15 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 16 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 17 | He did one thing in Hollywood for which he has not been given anything like sufficient credit . |
| 18 | In our main survey , only seven per cent told us that they had had classes about household budgeting or managing money while they were at school — and rather less than half of even this small minority said that they had been taught anything about buying on credit , or borrowing money . |
| 19 | ‘ But we have n't been taught anything about relationships . |
| 20 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 21 | Some are stacked one on top of another and there 's three stacked on together . |
| 22 | Twin humbucker guitars are enjoying something of a rebirth at present , thanks mainly to the players who are treading that particular path ( I 'm thinking of Nuno , Satriani & co ) and having played Strat derivatives for so long , it 's easy to forget just how good a neck humbucker sounds at full throttle . |
| 23 | Not for them the hollow reply , ‘ What meeting ? ’ when a call is made to check that they are bringing something to the pot luck supper at school that very evening . |
| 24 | Erm Eric in , in Manchester from where he comes is extremely well known obviously within the G M B but his record he 's one of the individuals in the trade union movement that I think are becoming somewhat of a rarity these days I know that many of us when we first started in the movement were very easily able , and , and very relaxed about combining trade union and political activities together but of course as time goes on and , you do tend to become more involved in the one and the other , because of course it 's all time-consuming but I can honestly say that in Eric 's case he 's never deviated one iota from his commitment both to the trade union , this union in particular , and to the Party never deviated at all . |
| 25 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 26 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 27 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 28 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |
| 29 | At school , she had been considered something of a ‘ character ’ — a freak by her enemies , an eccentric by those loyal to her , or touched by the high voltage of her need . |
| 30 | Suppose , however , the children have to secretly plan an escape which the crew of the ship are to know nothing about … |