Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners . |
| 2 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 3 | Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing . |
| 4 | referring to adjudication those cases where a client 's entitlement to benefit is in doubt ; |
| 5 | perhaps the best-known attempt to make such a link has been by Peter Hall . |
| 6 | This action plan makes it evident that many of the organisational improvements recommended are in fact features synonymous with an ‘ openly run ’ school with an ‘ open ’ form of decision-making . |
| 7 | Mike Rowbottom has been inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire , where the prisoners face a regime that 's unique in Britain . |
| 8 | Given the amount of time that Karsten Schubert has been in business and given the new wave of gallery/dealers , this year is going to be the year to break with a much more open policy towards new art , are being seen as central to the contemporary art scene . |
| 9 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 10 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 11 | ( 1982 ) have shown that about three-quarters of the change has been to woodland , as shown in Figure 8.4 , and that this pattern is fairly geographically even , except for Dartmoor as shown in Table 8.4 . |
| 12 | Now in his third full season with the HB NSR , Bradl 's main change has been from Michelin to Dunlop tyres |
| 13 | The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared . |
| 14 | The main change has been in attitudes to Japan and Western Europe . |
| 15 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 16 | In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane . |
| 17 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 18 | Perhaps emphasis at this level has been upon soil evolution rather than upon soil dynamics , which has been treated in relation to land capability . |
| 19 | Mick Banks has been in institutions since he was 12 . |
| 20 | CU has been among insurance groups hard hit by soaring claims and recently announced a pre-tax loss of £68.6 million on last year 's business . |
| 21 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 22 | The police national computer has been in operation since 1974 . |
| 23 | Ian has been with Wood-Way engineering for nine years , and was previously employed by Weir Pumps . |
| 24 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 25 | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names . |
| 26 | Timex has been in Dundee for 47 years . |
| 27 | The university has been under curfew and restraint for months . |
| 28 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 29 | It has occurred to me to wonder what the previous experience has been of youngsters who savagely assault old people , whether they have ever been close to an old person . |
| 30 | Bowlby has been under pressure ever since the Cheltenham Gold Cup , over his riding tactics on Golden Freeze , coincidentally brought down at The Chair in Thursday 's John Hughes Memorial Chase here . |