Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ACTOR Kenneth Branagh is making his next appearance on stage as Hamlet thanks to a packet of Persil . |
| 2 | It is particularly interesting in the way that it counters the widely held view that Los Alamos was dragging its feet over the development of the Super even after the presidential directive in early 1950 for a crash programme towards producing a hydrogen weapon . |
| 3 | Although the campaign against apprenticeship brought a renewal of petitioning , by 1838 the Scots abolitionist William Smeal was expressing his disappointment at how ‘ cavalierly ’ petitions which had taken so much effort were received by the Commons . |
| 4 | The simplest way to program the NSA 's computers at Morwenstow and Menwith Hill is to have them watch for specific names , addresses , telephone and telex numbers , as in the case of Kinnock 's call to Turnbull . |
| 5 | By the time he reappears in the kitchen Millie is watching him closely and Anne is frowning slightly ; they have seen immediately that there is something different about him . |
| 6 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 7 | Then when she was talking to me someone knocked at the door then Auntie Linda was saying he wo n't bite you , he 's alright . |
| 8 | While Martin Smyth was trying to persuade the march organizers to relent , Ian Paisley was promising his support . |
| 9 | Over the road , Jessica Haddow was making herself invisible . |
| 10 | In the story , Jim Corbett is describing his hunt for the Chowgarh tigress who killed at least 64 human beings between 1925 and 1930 before their first and last meeting took place . |
| 11 | Travelling from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern cliffs of England is tough enough … 1200 muscle sapping miles … but Derek Hegarty and Neil Pascoe are doing it an even harder way … they 're competing in their own marathon triathlon … which is running swimming and cycling … so far they 've run up Ben Nevis … |
| 12 | Hartlepool solicitor David Keating is offering his own version of legal aid to one of Europe 's newest democracies . |
| 13 | The woman 's mad , Miss Honey was telling herself . |
| 14 | Alongside keyboard player Ceri Evans ' Sunship project and vocal sensation Jamiroqua , Mother Earth are proving there are new , diverse sounds emerging on a record label that some people pigeonholed way too prematurely . |
| 15 | But despite the retro threads and a name stolen from a Sixties psychedelic-funk group , tracks like ‘ Theme From Riot On 103rd Street ’ ( featured on Acid Jazz 's ‘ Totally Wired 7 ’ round-up ) prove that Mother Earth are doing something interesting . |
| 16 | With trippy guitars working around strange out-of-time sampled rhythms , and the obligatory Hammond organ in the wings , Mother Earth are carving themselves an individual niche on Acid Jazz 's strengthening roster . |
| 17 | Out-of-favour Neil Webb is giving himself a two-month deadline to get back into favour at Old Trafford . |
| 18 | Besides , her own secret affection for Richard Ward was calling her back . |
| 19 | Scott Bader are to close their Stratford Road premises in Birmingham and replace it with a new centre backing onto the Merryhill Estate in Brierley Hill . |
| 20 | And how come Neil Cochrane was amusing her so easily without even trying ? |
| 21 | The former brigadier Toby Low was continuing his evidence in his action for damages over accusations that he repatriated 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks from Allied-occupied Austria in 1945 , knowing they faced almost certain death . |
| 22 | Yet to impose a purely ‘ universal ’ reading on a novel such as Pedro Páramo is to impoverish it , for it also — and more immediately — conjures up associations with the ancient Mexican myth of Quetzalcoatl 's journey to Mictlan , the kingdom of the dead , and the world into which we are introduced is one where the indigenous cultural tradition constitutes a living presence . |
| 23 | She says the Colonel 's taken up petit point , and Miss Hawkins is teaching him . |
| 24 | In the car Maisie was studying her music . |
| 25 | Larger-than-life Bella Emberg is filling our screens again as whose famous side-kick ? |
| 26 | Good grief , no sooner has the final whistle blown than we here at Athletico Whaddon are gearing ourselves up ready for the hurly-burly of next season 's campaign . |
| 27 | " Miss Lucchesi is having someone to come and talk to us . |
| 28 | Miss Havisham was making me rich ! |
| 29 | Andy Cole is getting lots of play and lots of support at Newcastle — and he is top scorer right now ( bot cup&league ) in the premiership . |
| 30 | ERIK THORSTVEDT is playing his way towards a new contract at Tottenham . |