Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 3 | The remains of water-mills have been consistently removed ; the weirs which hold up river levels have been dismantled ; and mill-ponds and mill-races have been filled with the dredgings . |
| 4 | Gradually , and despite the readiness with which the ranks of the baseej had been filled from the towns and villages , a sense of war-weariness was apparent in Iran ; in 1984 there were even newspaper reports of a loss of the will to fight in the ranks . |
| 5 | The wings are very broad and thick at the base and the feathers at the end of the wings are parted like the fingers of a human hand . |
| 6 | Det Supt Ron Coutts , heading the investigation , said the devices found in the evening had been hidden outwith the areas searched in the morning . |
| 7 | More than one appeal concerned solely with the scale rather than the principle of whether there should be any development , has been dismissed on the grounds that the site was unsuitable for any development at all . |
| 8 | Earlier in the season the prospect of a French Championship final between Toulon and Biarritz would have been dismissed with the words : C'est fou ! |
| 9 | I am fascinated by the roads and tracks and the steeplechase phases in Three Day Events . |
| 10 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 11 | ‘ So I struggled on when the best thing would have been to go into the reserves and get my confidence back . |
| 12 | The lower reaches of the Sevre Niortaise are swollen with the waters that once covered the whole area , until medieval monks started to dig a spider-web of ditches to drain it . |
| 13 | The effect of passage through the primate gut has been examined in the tamarins in Amazonian Peru , where it was found that germination success rates were about 70% . |
| 14 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 15 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 16 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 17 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
| 18 | Mr Harris also said ‘ with absolute certainty ’ that any adverse findings by the JDS would have been overturned by the courts . |
| 19 | Two hundred thousand veterans had been recalled to the Eagles , the half-pay officers had been restored to their battalions , and the arsenals of France had been filled . |
| 20 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 21 | Six candidates are embroiled in a Commons clash over who will succeed Bernard Wetherill . |
| 22 | Even this might have been bearable if the King had not been tainted with the vices of meanness and frugality . |
| 23 | These are calculated along the lines presented in NN . |
| 24 | The coalition had been joined by the Peasants ' Party and the Peasants ' Alliance . |
| 25 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 26 | This extreme role really depends upon the social researcher deciding whether the means are justified by the ends . |
| 27 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 28 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 29 | Here the clarinets are placed above the oboes and would thus give a clear brilliant ‘ tang ’ to the chord . |
| 30 | Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out . |