Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [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 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential . |
| 6 | Walls and ceilings in the germination rooms and steeping areas have been clad with plastic panelling to facilitate cleaning . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Certain limitations are placed on property damage . |
| 11 | The data for band 1 are placed in memory bank 1 which provides the red input to the TV monitor display . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A chaotic ward , where no instructions are given about patient care , will usually result in bad nursing care . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All these files are listed for cursor selection if the file is in the current directory . |
| 19 | Those of you who are listed for morning 'phone calls from the wardens — please notify them if you are going on holiday . |
| 20 | Although earning power is , in effect , a franchise , it has never been recognized for balance sheet purposes … , except in the limited extent of purchased goodwill . |
| 21 | Thus the implications of the Eucharistic nature of the Church have never been recognized by Church authority in areas of an acute shortage of priests ; and when , in some of them , episcopal conferences have requested permission to ordain married men to ensure the maintenance of a minimum of regular Eucharistic celebration in local communities , they have been rebuffed by Rome . |
| 22 | The consensus sequences GHVDHGKT ( 18–25 ) , DCPG ( 80–83 ) , and NKCD ( 135–138 ) involved in three GDP binding domains of E.coli EF-Tu ( 12 ) are conserved in silk gland EF-1α at residues 14–22 , 91–94 , and 153–156 , respectively ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 23 | Relatives of the four airmen had been traced by air historian , 14 travelling from England for this special occasion . |
| 24 | The two awards complement each other well , with the underpinning knowledge and skills required for the general SVQ being delivered in our training centres , while the practical skills demanded by the occupational SVQ are developed on work placement . |
| 25 | Extensive calcareous flowstone and stalactite deposits are developed at spring discharge points in fractured bituminous limestones and combustion-metamorphosed marbles : the ground water is saturated with calcium hydroxide , with the consequence that calcite and aragonite rapidly precipitate when it comes into contact with atmospheric carbon dioxide . |
| 26 | agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've always been fascinated with science fiction … just that feel . |
| 28 | TALYLLYN RAILWAY No 6 Douglas has been withdrawn pending boiler renewal after the expiry of its boiler certificate on July 3 . |
| 29 | The company might perhaps be saying that , as happens throughout Britain , nursery children are drawing on waste computer paper . |
| 30 | The filmwork has been undertaken by Video Action for the Touring & Recreation Committee and the result is a thoroughly professional film , well edited with its own music and with such techniques as slow motion and freeze frame used where necessary but not excessively . |