Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wins a subsequent bout also by disqualification , then he must be withdrawn for his own safety , since it is obvious that , in this tournament at least , he is not protecting himself adequately . |
| 2 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 3 | And now we 've all managed to carve out or own identities , and to be recognized for our own distinctive bodies of work . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Basically we 've looked and said there 's no reason for any knee-jerk reaction or across-the-board actions here , ’ Collis said , adding that Dell will be sticking to its own price timetable . |
| 5 | Estelle had appeared to be aroused by it all . |
| 6 | WINDSOR Women 's Centre will , quite literally , be building on its own success , when members don hard hats to construct a new complex at Broadway . |
| 7 | Should comparison be undertaken for its own sake simply out of intrinsic interest or intellectual challenge , or should it be directed towards some more closely-defined objective ? |
| 8 | In part , that may be explained by his own view of women formed from those days in Neptune : they should be independent , take their strengths from their inner self and not rely on men , except for moral support . |
| 9 | Any grudging admission of Britain 's ultimate dependence upon the United States in the event of war was accompanied by the usual warning that Americans were a " mercurial " people , governed by so " archaic " a constitution that the government might be paralysed by its own people in a crisis . |
| 10 | Also — a card was signed and sent with flowers to greet Janice Glen on her birthday and Janice later telephoned the Office to ask for her thanks to be given to you all . |
| 11 | Also — a card was signed and sent with flowers to greet Janice Glen on her birthday and Janice later telephoned the Office to ask for her thanks to be given to you all . |
| 12 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 13 | He will be enmeshed for his own good in the electric wires which bring with them life-giving energy to make the farm fertile . |
| 14 | Any steps with respect to the performance of the Peace Treaty taken by the United States under its letter to Egypt and Israel would be binding upon them both , while any action that fell only within the terms of the Memorandum could be objected to by Egypt as a third party . |
| 15 | Each case must be examined on its own facts , examining the function rather than just the formal categorisation of the requesting authority . |
| 16 | For instance , he says potential students and immigrants should be examined in their own country at their expense by British doctors employed by the Foreign Office . |
| 17 | New developments must be justified on their own merits . |
| 18 | In some cases , however , the elusive book which you need may in fact be hidden in your own library . |
| 19 | We can arrange for you to be hidden from them all forever , if you want us to . ’ |
| 20 | Bebe 's kids are the nightmare invention of the late comedian Robin Harris , who 're about to be immortalised in their own network cartoon series . |
| 21 | He had 17 management jobs in total including Scotland , Chelsea , Manchester United , FC Porto and Queens Park Rangers , and he will be immortalised by his own self-deprecating one-liner , ‘ I 've had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus , but he used them better . ‘ |
| 22 | Anxiety and depression must be treated on their own merits . |
| 23 | Alright , mother 's alright , she 's on top of the world she is at the moment , nothing of her , but , she seems to be struggling through it all . |
| 24 | Like the Israelite prophets , they may not be honoured in their own country but they are recognized as belonging . |
| 25 | It becomes obvious that a young animal must be reared with its own species to learn the communication skills of that species . |
| 26 | Trible 's work could well be criticized in its own terms . |
| 27 | Use of PLATO has the disadvantage that special PLATO terminals have to be used for the instruction ; this means that users can not be taught in their own congressional offices and carry out the training as and when required . |
| 28 | A set of criteria will then be developed against which these will be evaluated in order to indicate their relevance and utility in the Higher Education context , given the different focus of all those organisations and individuals making judgement about quality . |
| 29 | Projects should be considered on their own merit , rather than whether or not they are politically acceptable to the government of the day . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State had already said future applications to build power stations would be considered on their own merit and not because there was spare capacity . |