Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Professor Hoskins of the University of Reading : " We know that human activities are doing something to the system but computer models are too crude at present to predict what will happen . " |
| 2 | Hereford are suffering something of a flu epedemic at the moment . |
| 3 | Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . |
| 4 | Mr Gordon accused GFP of being ‘ fundamentalists ’ about roads and said : ‘ It is a myth that other cities are spending nothing on roads . |
| 5 | With some modification , this view , expressed in African Political Systems , is generally accepted , Recent research would broaden even further the category and also include systems where descent groups are linked one to another by marriage , rather than by believed common descent . |
| 6 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 7 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 8 | The theory has several distinctive aspects , the most important of which are these : ( a ) The insistence that units are ranked one above another in a definite order . |
| 9 | The companies who thought they were buying themselves employees to stack their shelves or deliver mail are getting nothing of the sort . |
| 10 | CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible . |
| 11 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 12 | The dichotomy between the ‘ British ’ and ‘ Scottish ’ Labour parties is becoming something of a cause celebre is it not ? |
| 13 | The object in this chapter is to convey something of the nature and application of these techniques without going into detailed descriptions . |
| 14 | Tragedy is doing something in spite of the conditions . |
| 15 | Labour has opposed our measures which have led to stiffer sentences , it would shackle the police with political controls and its answer to rising crime is to blame everyone except the criminal . |
| 16 | With so much at stake it is understandable that the Department of Trade and Industry is doing everything in its power to avoid all-out war . |
| 17 | Headline is doing lots of advertising , which will link up to the new hardback in September and the next paperback in December — a Koontz autumn programme . |
| 18 | Its irresistible force was pushing everything before it . |
| 19 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 20 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 21 | ‘ Jack Mahoney was blackmailing somebody in this town . |
| 22 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 23 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 24 | ‘ The whole stupid , f—ing happy idea of putting the song on the album was to say something about struggle , ’ adds Fruitbat . |
| 25 | He took them through the cavernous littered kitchen , where an old woman in a grey shawl was mixing something in a basin on the table , and down the dark passage to the studio . |
| 26 | ‘ Ma must have taken to cooking up bits of food in her bedroom , ’ Algy said when Lady Grubb was doing something to the plants and she and Guy were alone with father in his study . |
| 27 | The girl 's distress was doing something to Cardiff . |
| 28 | The reason it was nt shown live was that ITV probably thought theyd be showing lots of matches from the league phase . |
| 29 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 30 | At the same time , this division is so entrenched in our education system that a student who wishes to cross the cultural boundary and study both areas is considered something of an oddity . |