Example sentences of "the [noun] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reached Stephen 's jeep , where the porter was piling the bags into the back . |
| 2 | You will notice that the comments do pay attention to spelling , but that the main purpose of the response is to show the pupil that he has achieved what he set out to do , that is , to write it like a court report , and to include the main information from the story . |
| 3 | The response was to start an unbeaten run of 19 games which has swept Wigan to the verge of a third consecutive double or , as John Monie , their coach , put it , ‘ halfway towards another successful season ’ . |
| 4 | erm I mean the object of the exercise , difficult as though it is to say , is to get income , and the reason we need the income is to protect the baseline of the services . |
| 5 | As Tory High Command warned tonight 's knife-edge vote could be uncomfortably close , the Premier was dealt a huge blow by the EC 's German vice-president Martin Bangemann . |
| 6 | These platforms stretching round the continents are called the continental shelf . |
| 7 | Mr Owen said : ‘ The chief purpose of the park is to create an attraction with economic benefits to the town of Holyhead . ’ |
| 8 | The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts . |
| 9 | Sales of mainframe software also increased slightly , he says , because although some clients are downsizing , the majority are freezing the size of their mainframes , and either running applications on Unix boxes or investing their money on mainframe software with more functionality . |
| 10 | Well this is where Michael is a he would rather , I mean when I say to him can I just do some work on you calc I say , no , cos you are not doing any work , the calculator 's doing the work . |
| 11 | The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million . |
| 12 | As the prayer was answered the result was an outward focus : the place was shaken , they began to speak the word of God boldly , and the great missionary activity of the church began . |
| 13 | Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere . |
| 14 | The JD 's baseplate is actually better finished , although when it arrived the guitar was lacking the low E grubscrew , rendering the guitar virtually unplayable . |
| 15 | The simplest method for the housewife is to cover the peeled potatoes with water . |
| 16 | The prince is given the freedom of the garden if only he does not kiss the fairy . |
| 17 | It occurs in Henry IV , Part I. Falstaff and the Prince are having a high old time by pretending in turn to be the King chastising Hal for his association with Falstaff . |
| 18 | An even easier victory followed , at Moy , nine miles [ 14 km ] short of Inverness , where the prince was staying the night of 16–17 February at the local big house , Moy Hall . |
| 19 | The prince was given the bird during a visit in Dorset . |
| 20 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 21 | Under the base is printed the name of the manufacturer : Montrose Elec . |
| 22 | The base is spared the curse of the ‘ brown-outs ’ familiar in Manila because it has its own power plant . |
| 23 | If the direction is reversed the defect is called a fold , while if the defect causes neither displacement nor reversal of direction but only a local disordering of the zigzag configuration it is called a kink . |
| 24 | Thus it is often erroneously supposed that a provision of the Convention which merely prevents it from displacing or affecting a particular legal right thereby effectuates that right , whereas in truth the sole consequence of the provision is to leave the matter to be determined under the applicable national law . |
| 25 | Note that if the Wizard is riding a horse with barding this has no effect on his ability to cast spells . |
| 26 | At the end of this period , the wizard is allowed an Int test and , if this is successful , he has learned one of the spells in the book . |
| 27 | ‘ The Pentagon is advising the president about troop reductions . |
| 28 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 29 | Indeed , if the change is to enable the accounting reference periods of parent and subsidiary undertakings to coincide or because an administrator has been appointed , it may operate in respect also of the immediately preceding accountancy reference period . |
| 30 | When the change is implemented the Development Manager should : |