Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why has Tod been frittering my life away like this ? |
| 2 | Their supporting Engineers are making roads , rebuilding bridges and the Cheshires are imposing their influence on local factions by both persuasion and force . |
| 3 | Corals in the seas off northern Queensland are losing their colour and will die if the condition persists , according to local reports . |
| 4 | You might think that Young and Helmholtz were wasting their time using psychophysical procedures when improvements in physiological techniques would allow direct measurements of this sort . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the LEAs were expanding their provision through a diversified range of courses of ‘ instruction ’ in practical skills , many of which were provided for occupational qualifications at ‘ night schools ’ or evening institutes . |
| 6 | By excluding love-making from the sphere of operation of the notion of autonomy , Kant and Hegel were limiting its scope in the ‘ public ’ realm . |
| 7 | Whilst the Habsburgs were consolidating their power in central Europe they were confronted on the east by Hungary and in the south by the Venetian republic . |
| 8 | L'Oreal is lifting its dividend 10 p.c. to 87p . |
| 9 | In the story , Jim Corbett is describing his hunt for the Chowgarh tigress who killed at least 64 human beings between 1925 and 1930 before their first and last meeting took place . |
| 10 | Initially , SynOptics is converting its Optivity network management system and LattisWare Solutions applications for IBM 's NetView/6000 network management system for IBM RS/6000 computers . |
| 11 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 12 | And what 's this Angie 's taking her kid little boy out of school . |
| 13 | MANWEB is doing its bit to help flood victims . |
| 14 | Marie 's left her hairbrush . |
| 15 | Robyn Penrose is making her way to Lecture Room A , along corridors and down staircases thronged with students changing classes . |
| 16 | ACTRESS Britt Ekland is to try her luck as a novelist following the failure of her eight-year marriage to toy boy ‘ Slim ’ Jim McDonnell . |
| 17 | Siemens Nixdorf is moving its Comet business software library over to its Sinix-based RM machines by making its Cross Basic migration software available on the RISC-based hardware . |
| 18 | But New Zealand 's delight was tinged with sadness after opener John Wright 's announced his retirement . |
| 19 | Ann is leaving her home in Haslemere this February for a new life in Caracas , Venezuela where her husband has been posted . |
| 20 | Meantime NEC is increasing its production of the present generation 16M-bit memory chips by more than 500% as of early 1994 . |
| 21 | Sue is visiting her cousin . |
| 22 | And Johnny 's doing his bit to introduce the youngsters to the animal kingdom … |
| 23 | I notice Mr Allenby is nodding his head . |
| 24 | Welcom Software Technology of Houston , Texas is porting its project management software Open Plan to Unix targeting SunOS as its first implementation : Open Plan , built on the Xbase DBMS , was previously available on PCs , Macs and VAXs . |
| 25 | said yeah , Richard is using your address to put the banns in here with Angela |
| 26 | ACTOR Tom Conti is doing his bit to help the ailing economy by buying only British goods . |
| 27 | This became the first in a long line of medieval whodunnits featuring an unusual detective , a 12th-century Benedictine monk named Brother Cadfael : when he is n't tending his herb garden , Cadfael is using his knowledge to solve a seemingly endless series of murders and mysterious disappearances . |
| 28 | If that did n't ensnare him , then the Militia might , as he grew older : there was a brief hiatus in the war with France from 1801 to 1803 , but by the following year Napoleon was massing his army of invasion on the cliffs at Boulogne . |
| 29 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 30 | By 1850 , Abel was still assisting at the college , whereas Mansfield was preparing his naphtha fractions elsewhere and was eagerly looking for socially useful outlets for his products . |