Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arriving at Dingle , he had expected to be given charge of a spoilt , overdressed menina who would spend the whole voyage in her cot with her maidservant running about in attendance , so he had been pleasantly surprised to find in Sara an odd mixture of childish enthusiasm and womanly grace . |
| 2 | Director Freddie Shepherd , meanwhile , has denied reports that he plans to sell his 7pc shareholding to chairman Sir John Hall and is expected to be appointed vice-chairman . |
| 3 | Joshua Nkomo , leader of ZAPU , now dissolved and merged with the ruling party , was reappointed one of three Senior Ministers in the President 's Office and was expected to be made vice-president along with Simon Muzenda under forthcoming legislation providing for the creation of two vice-presidencies with equal rank . |
| 4 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |
| 5 | However , they found no trace of Liam Shakespeare , whom the terrorists had claimed to be holding hostage . ’ |
| 6 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 7 | Fragrant herbs play a great part in what has come to be called aromatherapy , in which essential fragrant oils from herbs are rubbed on to the skin . |
| 8 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 9 | At any rate , this line of thought was explored in the eighteenth century , notably by David Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature ( first published in 1739 ) and has come to be termed empiricism . |
| 10 | If it 's a small discharge and say it 's twice the limits , three times the limits , then it would be considered to be needing improvement . |
| 11 | Some fear that the statement could catch ‘ innocent ’ schemes as well as any that clearly defeat the purpose of the legislation , and discussions are reported to be taking place between the Revenue and the profession as to how exactly the statement will be implemented . |
| 12 | But the Clinton proposals were reported to be causing concern to Saudi Arabia , the world 's largest oil exporter , which may seek a dialogue with Western nations on issues of petroleum supply and taxation . |
| 13 | They have advanced down the Asmara road in the past four weeks and are now reported to be operating south of Dese . |
| 14 | The Healys who had come to start the hotel were reported to be having difficulty in starting a family . |
| 15 | One favourite medium of attack in Iraq was the newspaper cartoon , with spectacularly uncomplimentary portrayals in the Baath Party newspaper al-Thawrah of the three chief objects of the leadership 's hostility — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin , Syria 's President Hafez al-Asad and of course Khomeini , on one occasion presented , at a time when Iran was widely reported to be cutting oil prices to boost sales volume , as a door-to-door kerosine street pedlar calling out , ‘ Naft ! |
| 16 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 17 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 18 | Under Ugandan law , those charged with treason are not permitted to be granted bail for at least 480 days . |
| 19 | Although some of this work may be informed by certain theoretical readings — Irigaray , Cixous , Kristeva , Judith Butler , or some of the work by Italian feminists on the mother-daughter relationship — there is a real sense in which these artists could be said to be producing theory visually . |
| 20 | this suggests a recognition that cultural production is itself a form of knowledge or , as Hilary Robinson has put it in a recent issue of WAM ( No49 ) in discussing women 's body art , that artists could be said to be producing theory visually ’ . |
| 21 | At the same time the West German government stated its suspicions that the Chilean government was concealing deeds occurring in the colony and that it thus shared responsibility for " the reported tortures , maltreatment and denial of personal liberties " said to be taking place there . |
| 22 | Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente . |
| 23 | Groups like the Welsh Language Society and the Free Wales Army were said to be training freedom fighters in the mountains and he was barracked everywhere he went . |
| 24 | Promoters , The Mean Fiddler Group , are said to be seeking compensation for non-fulfilment of his contract as well as a separate settlement for bringing their organisation into disrepute . |
| 25 | In popularizing this slogan Labour was enormously aided by widespread resentment against ‘ profiteers ’ — a word universally used during the war to describe the conduct of shipowners , food wholesalers , arms contractors , landlords and all the other ‘ Brit-Huns ’ who were said to be exploiting wartime scarcities to line their own pockets while workers and soldiers loyally gave their all for the war effort . |
| 26 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 27 | His condition is said to be giving cause for concern . |
| 28 | The company is also said to be having difficulty moving a significant amount of lower-end Sparcstation series 10s out of the channel and into end-user sites . |
| 29 | In other words , the speaker of [ 14 ] could be said to be optimising relevance over the whole text . |
| 30 | Armed soldiers were reported to be patrolling the streets of Bucharest and the capital 's students were said to be voicing solidarity with the protesters in the north of the country , in what appeared to be a menacing escalation of the crisis . |