Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 2 | The gap has been filled by Bill Rear 's excellent volume . |
| 3 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 4 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 5 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 6 | The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential . |
| 7 | Walls and ceilings in the germination rooms and steeping areas have been clad with plastic panelling to facilitate cleaning . |
| 8 | And so it came to pass that on Friday 24 April , at 11am our time , 94 ladies and gentleman of the British press are gathered at Stansted Airport inside a privately chartered plane whose previous occupants were Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party election campaign team . |
| 9 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 10 | It is highly doubtful that any offshore centre could claim that it has never been tainted by drugs money . |
| 11 | He has been joined by Harwich MP Iain Sproat and Lord Braybrooke , the Lord Lieutenant of Essex . |
| 12 | Hamburgers and disco biscuits are undercover terms for the rave drug Ecstasy , while royalty is cocaine and poor quality drugs are dismissed as flea powder . |
| 13 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 14 | Depositors ' funds are placed with HM Treasury , authorised banks , local authorities and building societies in Great Britain ; Tyndall does not lend to other customers . |
| 15 | Certain limitations are placed on property damage . |
| 16 | The data for band 1 are placed in memory bank 1 which provides the red input to the TV monitor display . |
| 17 | A considerable investment has been made in the redevelopment of the Piper field , which achieved first oil in February 1993 , having been delayed by construction schedule slippages and bad weather at the end of 1992 . |
| 18 | Cyclic-AMP-regulated chloride conductances are altered in airway epithelia from CF patients r4–6 , suggesting that the functional expression of CFTR in the airways of CF patients may be a strategy for treatment . |
| 19 | It is also useful to demonstrate the choice you are given for data entry in many Windows boxes . |
| 20 | A chaotic ward , where no instructions are given about patient care , will usually result in bad nursing care . |
| 21 | There are other ways in which the COBUILD dictionary is unique — explanations of words are given in sentence form and supported with real examples from the corpus . |
| 22 | If such aids are given by EC member states , then this could clearly distort the process of competition within the SEM , a fundamental tenet of which is the creation of equality in trading opportunities . |
| 23 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 24 | By the time Jamal Hamadan , accompanied by Sami Jafaar , arrived in Cyprus to meet his old friend at the Filanta hotel , Sergeant Mikalis had been banished to police school in Germany , and his successors in the room down the hall from the ‘ hot ’ suite had been drilled by Coleman to within an inch of their lives . |
| 25 | Do n't think it could never happen to your child — every year 300 children in the UK die as a result of accidents at home and a staggering 870,000 are treated in hospital accident and emergency departments . |
| 26 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 27 | It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . |
| 28 | Whereas the state case against the officers had been heard in Ventura County , an almost exclusively white suburb of Los Angeles , the federal case was due to be decided by a jury selected from a pool of seven southern California counties ( with a total population of 16,000,000 people ) which was likely to be less predominantly white in composition . |
| 29 | Further information on these events and the Castleblaney Easter Festival , the Monaghan Pairs and Bailieboro events are listed on Keisure Angling 's match information sheet on 051 734 2344 . |
| 30 | All these files are listed for cursor selection if the file is in the current directory . |