Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 2 | ‘ Been seeing much of McCloy lately , Charlie ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 4 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 5 | THE Bank 's new fixed rate mortgages packages are proving popular with home owners — and new funds have been secured to allow the heavily subscribed three-year rate to continue . |
| 6 | Allied to this is a greater emphasis on comfort , leading to the use of cotton and ‘ elastan ’ fabrics which are proving popular in sports and activity bras . |
| 7 | Scheduled to begin on Aug. 30 , the talks had been delayed due to North Korea 's refusal , at an unofficial contact between foreign ministry officials prior to the talks , to respond to Japan 's repeated call for information about a Japanese woman known as Li Un Hye , who had allegedly been kidnapped by North Korea to tutor the former North Korean agent convicted of the 1987 bombing of a South Korean passenger plane [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 8 | The warranties ( but not usually the tax indemnities ) in the sale and purchase agreement are given subject to disclosures made in a separate disclosure letter from the seller ( or its solicitors ) to the acquirer ( or its solicitors ) handed over in final form at the time of the signing of the agreement . |
| 9 | Above : Even the kitchen shelves are given some of Rita 's expert treatment and are festooned with large , bright bows |
| 10 | Some would take this view , arguing along the lines of the story of Christ healing the lepers , that some of God 's gifts are given free to men who may then go and abuse them . |
| 11 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 12 | Many valuable drugs have been recognized first as poisons . |
| 13 | Riven examined his leg and found that his boot had been ripped open like paper , but that his calf was only scratched . |
| 14 | Princess Coronation Class 46229 ‘ Duchess of Hamilton ’ which was originally hoped to be steamed between Carlisle and Perth later this year , has been withdrawn due to restrictions being imposed on the locomotive by ScotRail engineers . |
| 15 | There is one , sometimes two , pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 5–6 oral papillae , the proximal ones are pointed similar in shape to the apical papilla but distally they become rounded , and the distalmost one is large and opercular . |
| 16 | Oliver was below the salt , as far as Sir Thomas was concerned , and Gwendolen had been placed next to Lord Beddington so that Sir Thomas did not have to look at her . |
| 17 | Unfortunately she had been placed next to Dorothy , Fred 's daughter , in one routine . |
| 18 | The heart of the team departed when scrum half and captain Nick Farr-Jones announced his retirement after the Springboks had been crushed 26–3 in Cape Town last August . |
| 19 | You will work until your feet are stripped raw of flesh and until your legs are bowed and your skin is shrivelled . |
| 20 | Item twenty four meeting held on the eleventh of January are received those in favour please say aye . |
| 21 | But on the principle that most clever ideas in this field seem to have been developed first by bats , I do n't mind betting that the answer is yes . |
| 22 | Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way . |
| 23 | The four men have been given thousands of pounds worth of baking machinery . |
| 24 | NOW THAT the council has been given thousands of pounds for traffic calming measures , how about a pedestrian crossing outside Alder Hey Hospital ? |
| 25 | For example , if we seek a document on the economic history of Germany and we know that works on history are arranged first by country , then by social process and then by period , it will be easier for us to find this document than if the subdivision was less systematic . |
| 26 | The principles of these rules are explained first in pp. 15–43 of their book , and in greater detail in pp. 69–162 . |
| 27 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 28 | This particular skill of Tamburlaine 's is a recurrent theme from start to finish , and we first notice it when he is confronted by Theridamas. he realises that the odds are stacked high in Theridamas ' favour when it comes to the battle , and so he decides to appease Theridamas , and he uses his words as weapons . |
| 29 | Shops in Manila have been stripped bare in panic buying , there have been runs on banks , and the government has advised city-folk to grow vegetables in their gardens and to stop ironing clothes to save energy . |
| 30 | Sage now grandly claims itself Britain 's largest micro software company having been listed eighth in Romtec 's January 1993 analysis of the Top 15 software companies in the UK , behind seven US firms . |