Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 2 | Most of them are riding high on a feeling that all politicians and most of the media now put the environment at or near the top of the political agenda . |
| 3 | The situation with non-US tuna vessels is far worse , as most of them are operating free of any regulations whatsoever . |
| 4 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 5 | How long had I been doing this without a break ? |
| 6 | Just as I am drawing his attention to the point and beginning what I know will be a long and wearying discussion , Mirsal , who has been fighting the cabman about his fare outside , appears and lets loose such a torrent of thumbnail word portraits of the clerk 's family that , used as I am to his powers in this respect , I am struck dumb with admiration . |
| 7 | I am struck all of a heap . |
| 8 | Re-reading the paper which formed the background to this presentation , I am struck most of all by the difficulties there are in moving from a statement in critique — containing arguments about the weaknesses in our current models of design understanding , such as our failure to be able to define satisfactorily either design phenomena or design activity or to assert powerfully enough , and at the right levels , design 's wider social significance — to positive statements ; to being able to say this is the phenomena with which design is concerned , this is the nature of design activity , this , therefore , is the significance of design — epistemologically , socially , and practically . |
| 9 | ‘ I am breaking free from the past . ’ |
| 10 | He is provincial ; and I am using provincial as a word of high praise . |
| 11 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 12 | ‘ And I am getting used to picking you off battlefields , ’ Ratagan added . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think I 'm worthy of that title , but I am getting used to seeing unpleasant sights . |
| 14 | but I am seeing each of these grave girls |
| 15 | For I am writing this on Saturday evening , and already I have been blooded . |
| 16 | I am writing this on the train to London , carrying me on smooth , oiled wheels away from the pain , the exhaustion , and , above all , the one worth-while thing I ever did — or tried to do — in my life . |
| 17 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 18 | By the way , I am writing this with the Edding 1800 pen I recently won in one of your competitions . |
| 19 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |
| 20 | I am writing this in the mid-summer of 1986 , feeling strong and well and scheduled to make a return visit to my surgeon in just ten days time . |
| 21 | ‘ Not until next week — that will seem like a lifetime away to them ; but I am taking some of them out on Sunday up to Pelham Woods for a walk ; how about joining us ? ’ |
| 22 | I am addressing this to the Chief Executive as I am uncertain which department deals with matters of building safety . |
| 23 | I am growing tired of it , he wrote . |
| 24 | And I am growing old before my time ( 'fore my time ) . |
| 25 | Alas that today of all days , when there will be opportunity for further converse with him , I am laid low with this horrid malady ! ’ |
| 26 | But I see I am becoming preoccupied with these memories and this is perhaps a little foolish . |
| 27 | ‘ I am becoming accustomed to watching over you , ’ he added softly . |
| 28 | I am becoming sympathetic to those women of the suburbs . |
| 29 | I am doing this without glasses , and what is so marvellous is that I can play the piano without glasses for the first time for at least 12 years . |
| 30 | ‘ I am doing this in the interest of the great majority of our people , ’ she said . |