Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway who has followed the actions of the opposition in Bremen or Hamburg in recent years can hardly avoid the conclusion that the Christian Democrats ( the opposition ) are not interested in gaining power ( since lucrative public positions are given to them anyway ) … |
| 2 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 3 | Nothing further had been heard of her either in Finchley or at the Eastbourne club address . |
| 4 | In true Argentine tradition , nothing seems to have been heard of him since . |
| 5 | This did n't work , so he took the girl back to Sweden and nothing has been heard of them since . ’ |
| 6 | Thirty-one mosaics are listed below which together account for almost all significant remains of fourth century mosaic in the north east . |
| 7 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 8 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |
| 9 | Well I think it 's er , you know , farmers are reacting like everybody else to this . |
| 10 | Well I ca n't think why a free kick would have been given for anything else . |
| 11 | Women pastors have long been regarded as something quite normal . |
| 12 | This is true even if the question has been prescribed by someone else ( perhaps in an examination ) ; in such cases , you reformulate the question in your first paragraph to demonstrate that you have understood it and can develop arguments from it . |
| 13 | Eventually , on 11 February 1992 the appeal was transferred to the High Court in London where the matter has been listed before me today , 17 February 1992 . |
| 14 | The second letter is difficult to place since Leapor is responding to a gentleman whose comments on her work are relayed by someone else , or to whom she refers in the third person for reasons of politeness . |
| 15 | It creates a sense of well-being so attractive that few can resist using it if they have been exposed to it too often . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly adolescence is the one which raises numerous transient problems in terms of puberty particularly , in terms of physical change , where adolescents become very worried about their , their body image , about the changes that are happening to them physically . |
| 17 | Even if horrific or frightening , it 's at least more exciting , less routine and ultimately the bad things — being skewered by a maniac or blown to pieces or vampirized — are happening to someone else . |
| 18 | They are carried by it only if the water has enough energy to lift and shift them — that is , if there is a great enough mass of water , moving sufficiently quickly . |
| 19 | Sheriffs served writs on the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association and the two letter-writers say that if they are resolved of nothing else in life it is that , even if persuaded that their lavish handicaps would be significantly reduced by using Ping Eye2 clubs , they would never buy a set or play with anyone who has . |
| 20 | Such theories must have attracted the Eliot who so often had connected modern and savage life and whose own poetry had been attacked for its apparently illogical movements from one image to the next . |
| 21 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 22 | And maybe the one in the burial mound had been dropped by someone else entirely ? |
| 23 | During this period there were 671 rights issues known to have been underwritten of which only 35 resulted in a loss for the underwriters . |
| 24 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 25 | The Book issued in 1558 had given fairly realistic values and had thus helped to increase the revenue ; thence forward the values remained almost unchanged until the reign of James I. Nominal duties of 5 per cent had gradually been eroded to something less than 3 per cent . |
| 26 | There was never any prospect of that happening and now the commitment has been downgraded to one whereby work will have started on all the sites by that date . |
| 27 | It 's not beyond the wit of the Tories to move in European people into the country , into this country in certain seats from the right in Europe to make sure those seats are won for them again , and I think it 's an extremely dangerous precedent to allow European voting if you 're not , if you 're just resident within Britain rather than a citizen . |
| 28 | Mum Christine , 37 , who has now been evicted from her home too , is staying with friends , moving from place to place . |
| 29 | Most of us can recall just how difficult it has been to concentrate on anything else if we have a headache or any other ache and pain . |
| 30 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |