Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 2 | By the same token , the public school choice would not be surprised to find that the Labour Party opposition regarded the official unemployment figures as underestimates The arguments that divided them are illustrated in Table 10–2 , which reproduces in a slightly amended form a table that appeared in The Sunday Times ( 6 November 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Often referred to as vegetable dyes , despite the fact that many of them are obtained from animal and mineral sources . |
| 4 | When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes . |
| 5 | And finally , the criminal injuries compensation scheme , to cut the amounts paid to people who are victims of gang rape , to cut the amount paid to people who are victims of child abuse , that shows just how much the Home Secretary cares about the victims of crime , and his other measures show that he 's far more concerned with his own career , with pleasing the Conservative party conference , and with trying to do anything , anything I mean he 's brought in whatever it is , twenty-seven proposals , one or two of them are bound to work , if you throw enough stuff at the fan , some of it usually hits the target . |
| 6 | They act as a powerful aphrodisiac on pigs , and synthesised versions of them are sprayed onto sows to make them receptive before artificial insemination . |
| 7 | More details of these charts and how to complete them are given in ILO ( 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Details of the availability of the datasets and the Pascal programs needed to make use of them are given in Miller and Reddy ( 1987 ) . |
| 9 | For example , in 1980 the British government consulted no fewer than 500 groups in drafting its legislation based upon the Finniston Report on Engineering , even though many of these groups had a negligible impact upon the government , sixteen of them are regarded by Richardson and Jordan as key' groups . |
| 10 | So many of them are based on wordplay , puns . ’ |
| 11 | All of them are made in America , where this kind of stuff is more popular . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 13 | In other words , all the negative characteristics of humanity as men perceive them are projected onto women . |
| 14 | All of them are suspected of links with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman , a blind Egyptian preacher who lives in New Jersey and urges an Islamic holy struggle against the West and the government of President Hosni Mubarak . |
| 15 | From the list of industries , which of them are connected with agriculture ? |
| 16 | Yet changes which at first seem major or dramatic often fade in significance as parts of them are assimilated into school operation or attention is diverted to newer concerns . |
| 17 | Differences between them are assimilated to differences on sex-differentiated traits like masculinity or self-confidence . |
| 18 | I do n't know why they do it , the screws , because half of them are bent as butchers ' hooks anyway . |
| 19 | Perhaps male bats have body surfaces that are subtly textured so that the echoes that bounce off them are perceived by females as gorgeously coloured , the sound equivalent of the nuptial plumage of a bird of paradise . |
| 20 | We have seen that , according to Althusser 's reading , Marx is committed to arguing that practices are mutually dependent , and some of the links between them are displayed in Althusser 's attempt to clarify the relations between the practices of capitalist society . |
| 21 | A number of them are duplicated in Windows 3.1 and these are more up to date versions . |
| 22 | Some of them are run with creche facilities . |
| 23 | A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house . |
| 24 | Attempts to reduce all the factors to a common denominator through placing a monetary value upon them are riddled with uncertainty . |
| 25 | These knowledge sources and the processes associated with them are shown in Figure 1.2 . |
| 26 | Consequently , even although a high proportion of particular categories of material may be in poor condition in the stacks , if not many of them are issued to readers , they may be in less danger than other items which are more frequently issued . |
| 27 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 28 | Soil tests to discover the pH are easily done , and the kits for doing them are provided with instructions by several garden product companies , and stocked at garden shops . |
| 29 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
| 30 | Nearly all of them are bought by adults for themselves . |