Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they originate from some person of eminence they have , of course , additional prestige ; but they are prized in their own right because many are beautiful in themselves and are representative of their time and place . |
| 2 | DEC already has the incomplete version 1 of the OSF operating system out on its MIPS line , and it 's this that customers are using for their own early development work . |
| 3 | Levels of earnings might well have been limited by their own work-psychology , as were those of lead miners in Derbyshire and the Mendip Hills , where the labour force consisted almost entirely of smallholders and cottagers . |
| 4 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 5 | It is well known that parents tend to treat their children as they themselves have been treated by their own parents . |
| 6 | Stanger also quite magnificently clawed down Proctor after he had been uncorked in his own 22 by the largely negative Neil Jenkins ( who had two goal-kicking failures ) , Rayer and Ricky Evans having capitalised on a Scottish attack short-circuiting . |
| 7 | Why should the government or industry consider funding the activities of scholars who are marginalized by their own professions ? |
| 8 | Girls either go to a local centre for tuition , or to the tutor 's home , or are taught within their own homes . |
| 9 | Croatia 's acceptance follows on from the recent announcement that the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania has been reinstated to their former status as full members , a status that they enjoyed prior to the outbreak of the second world war . |
| 10 | erm and I also think that a lot of people are struggling with their own lives and they have n't got time to worry about other people . |
| 11 | The tropical forest policies of the World Bank have been criticized by its own researchers . |
| 12 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 13 | Morant , Chambers and others were aware that for ten years or more several LEAs including Sheffield , Nottingham , Wigan , Liverpool , Carlisle , Finchley , Bolton , Cambridge , and Edinburgh had been experimenting with their own employment schemes . |
| 14 | Asda and Gateway , two British retailers , are experimenting with their own discount formats . |
| 15 | Several other countries , such as Sweden , Finland , New Zealand and some of the new democracies of Eastern Europe , are experimenting with their own versions of this hybrid development . |
| 16 | Magnetos are overhauled in their own segment of the CFS facility . |
| 17 | His guilt has been exposed by his own actions . |
| 18 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 19 | I feel reasonably relaxed if I am interviewed on my own ground , but find TV stations rather stressful and alien situations . |
| 20 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 21 | Now the planning application is for Waste Regulation rests with this Authority and I would emphasise that to members here that wh if you 're looking at the sites you must bear in mind that we are the waste Site Planning Application Authority and that you can not go and make progress in any direction without it coming to Committee here and I would hope that officers would bear in mind the sensitivity which has already been mentioned in agenda today but members will find that these applications er are addressed in their own district , in their own divisions . |
| 22 | A Berlin research institute is developing a scheme by which micro-organisms will feed on abandoned Trabant cars , large numbers of which have been discarded by their former East German owners in favour of more modern Western models . |
| 23 | Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . |
| 24 | ‘ I am devastated by it all . |
| 25 | A : After appearing on TV , I was contacted by Terry Moseley who had been following my story since Kelly was killed , and Jeanette Thompson , whose child had been attacked by her own dog . |
| 26 | An elderly man has been attacked by his own dog . |
| 27 | I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me . |
| 28 | Teachers constructing lists for students no doubt remember these books from their youth and are therefore more conscious of their failings and believe them to have been superseded by their own books and those of their colleagues . |
| 29 | Almost , in the midst of the new apartment that she hated as much as he did , though it had been decorated to her own specifications , she said , ‘ I have been to see my son . ’ |
| 30 | Pamela washed them once and will not bother to wash them again until they are saturated with her own smell , not a bad smell , made up as it is of tea , musk oil , turpentine and taramasalata . |