Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Littlewoods has been through the classic problems of succession for a company built by a single man . |
| 2 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 3 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 4 | I 'm , I 'm an alternative medicine practitioner and I tend to get a lot of people who are depressed coming to see me , people who have been through the normal routes |
| 5 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 6 | He would have been handsome had it not been for the close-set eyes and the petulant cast to his mouth . |
| 7 | Yet his criticism has not , by and large , been for the tabloid newspapers whose standards fell to new lows during the 1980s ; instead , he has reserved his bile for investigative journalists , particularly if they worked for television , and for those newspaper reporters who decided to boycott his lobby briefings . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the resolution might still have won a majority had it not been for the stolen goods in the outhouse . |
| 9 | ‘ If it had n't been for the native Africans in the community who rallied round , looked after my wife and kept leaving food parcels outside the door we would have been sunk . |
| 10 | This is a good example of a local commemoration which almost slipped through the net , had it not been for the sleuthing abilities of north east enthusiast David Thompson . |
| 11 | There then followed a decline , and the old arts would have been lost , had it not been for the Buddhist monks who kept the arts alive in their mountain refuges . |
| 12 | The next steps are for the successful candidates to take . |
| 13 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 14 | Of course , the pictures are for the young readers — or are they ? |
| 15 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 16 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 17 | Though exact figures are lacking , as indeed they are for the previous Councils , Lateran II seems to have been better attended than most , if not all , others hitherto . |
| 18 | There are more differences between those groups than there are between the normal things that sociologists would look at ; for example , social class . |
| 19 | But no matter how great the differences are between the various views about the way the BBC should go , I am sure a great deal unites us . |
| 20 | Twice a week we have an assembly and , as a rule , assemblies are about the only occasions that Christianity gets a mention at school . |
| 21 | United are off the bottom thanks to last sunday 's win … |
| 22 | Do you not think that up to now Middle Eastern countries and some other nations and people as well have been of the super powers in their giant struggle against each other , but now the United States may be able to take er , if you like a more mature and more relaxed attitude . |
| 23 | The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes . |
| 24 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 25 | The Group operates a number of pension schemes worldwide , the principal schemes being those in the United Kingdom , which are of the defined benefits type . |
| 26 | The principal schemes , which are in the United Kingdom and described below , are funded and are of the defined benefits type covering approximately 440 employees [ 1991 520 ] . |
| 27 | The CIBA-GEIGY Works at Duxford is not affected by these regulations because the quantities of chemicals stored there are below the minimum levels set under the CIMAH regulations . |
| 28 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 29 | they 're like the wordless books |
| 30 | There 's a dilemma of who 's taking decisions about what and should the troops on the ground who may be involved , could be involved in fighting following an air strike erm are not under a NATO flag , they 're under a United Nations flag , so it is quite a complex situation and a very delicate one to handle . |