Example sentences of "be [verb] [det] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that pocket money increases in the north are outstripping those in the south , in a strange reversal of trends . |
| 2 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 3 | Here details are given both of the executive at the PR consultancy working on the account and the relevant executive at the client company . |
| 4 | Instead of walking around the children 's play area , and then down Road and joining the , the Road site footpath , are using that as a foot as a shortcut . |
| 5 | In addition , a number of people who have gone through our study seminars keep in touch with us and tell us that they are using some of the things they 've learned here to be exposed here for their own work , but it 's very difficult to tell . |
| 6 | We are using this as an opportunity to try an alternative method of staffing . |
| 7 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 8 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 9 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 10 | Biazon had been given much of the credit for the successful loyalist defence of Camp Aguinaldo during the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 11 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 12 | ‘ And I said Mark Robins is a local lad who cost nothing and should have been given more of a chance . |
| 13 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 14 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 15 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 16 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 17 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 18 | Seldon 's plan gets the boot and cosmic — if not terrifically original — concepts are bandied all in the manner of Greek plays where Messengers arrive to report an offstage battle . |
| 19 | If liability rules are to perform any of the functions mentioned there must be at least some prospect of their being enforced . |
| 20 | I give credit to the people of those regions who , as we have seen , are realising some of the follies of the past . |
| 21 | Automobiles , machinery , electronics , chemicals and many others are somewhere in the middle : the choices made by individual firms are scattered all across the map . |
| 22 | We know the Germans are contributing most of the money . ’ |
| 23 | In Schedule 2 are included some of the minority community languages e.g. , Hindi , Bengali , Panjabi , Gujarati , Urdu . |
| 24 | Education in Britain has always been considered some of the best in the world . |
| 25 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 26 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 27 | They are training some of the region 's future central bankers . |
| 28 | And the chiller and the waterways and everything should all have been done all at the same time . |
| 29 | They are to replace some of the narrow Wilton Looms , including the one on which the Holyrood Carpet was woven . |
| 30 | I AM WRITING this with the sun beating down on me in Caracas . |