Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , other employees who had gone to the canteen on commencing a shift had not been dismissed and none of them knew that they risked that penalty . |
| 2 | Local members as , er appreciate with this paper will be kept informed and will also I should of said the Chairman of the Transport and Road Safety Sub Committee , because the process of consultation wo n't work effectively unless local views are heard and they of course can be heard through the local member . |
| 3 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 4 | And erm they said well you 've got to come off it , you know , were not going to do you this time , but you 've got to come straight , stop doing it all , erm , cos you 've been reported and your on the Social Security . |
| 5 | You know if you buy a car that 's been , like it 's been pinched or something like that ? |
| 6 | She had been prepared for none of this , stalled now , changed her mind . |
| 7 | Credit Suisse said that although it had been decided that none of the managers could represent the bondholders , it would be advising them and providing them with information . |
| 8 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 9 | It has been said that nobody with eyes in their heads or any appetite for the oddities and splendours of the human achievement or the natural scene can possibly be bored in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The teaching role of the staff nurse or equivalent clinical practitioner may have been seen as something of a Cinderella when compared with the traditional tasks of care giving and developing managerial expertise . |
| 11 | I am told that none of the new franchise applications have senior women as part of their management . |
| 12 | The second point is that we have been told that we in Wales would return to the rates . |
| 13 | As she saw movement near the doors Eleanor said , ‘ I have been told that you in America enjoy such freedom that socialism is not needed . |
| 14 | A business mistake is made , and it is assumed that the mistake would have been avoided if somebody at a higher position in the organization had known about it , or had intervened . |
| 15 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 16 | Indeed , adjusting the figures to take account of those whose area of residence was not known , it can be calculated that one in ten youths on the most affected estate were known heroin users during 1984–5 . |
| 17 | Within its shaking beams , there was nothing to be heard and nothing to be felt but the scream and roar of the wind , and the clattering percussion of objects striking the walls and the shutters , and the thunder of water outside , becoming louder and louder under a chattering ground-base of discarded boulders . |
| 18 | These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven . |
| 19 | In particular , TV buying has come in recent years to be regarded as something of a separate skill — arguably to the detriment of the media operations of agencies as a whole . |
| 20 | The fact that the collection takes up some 8M of disk space may also be regarded as something of a stumbling block … |
| 21 | To be patronised in a cloying , concerned manner , to be thought of as diseased or unclean , the result of some awful sin and therefore to be regarded as someone without hope — was her situation better than mine or worse ? |
| 22 | The second QLF , if any , will only be considered if none of the reference resolution possibilities for the first is deemed acceptable . |
| 23 | We do not want to have a future relationship of United States and Latin America reproduced in South Africa , which so many people talk about now when they talk about South Africa as the engine of growth if we have that kind of growth it 'll be distorted and none of the poor in South Africa or the region will benefit from it . |
| 24 | In fact , nobody did , which was only to be expected since nobody except Toby ( and possibly John ) knew where I was . |
| 25 | It must also not be forgotten that we in Britain , at least , tend to get our latitudes wrong when looking across the Atlantic . |
| 26 | Or Andy may er Andy , Andy may be adopted or something like that . |
| 27 | It thus has to be accepted that none of the cases cited provides in its ratio a decisive basis upon which Woolwich can rely to support its claim . |
| 28 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |
| 29 | It may even be that the indiscriminacy of some of the air operations in the Second World War will come to be seen as something of a historical aberration , and a mere temporary consequence of the undeveloped state of the arts of target acquisition and guidance . |
| 30 | He is the first investment analyst to be charged with insider dealing , and as a result his trial will be seen as something of a test case in the City , especially as legislation is currently going through Parliament to extend the scope of insider dealing . |