Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , GaAs-based computer chips are now being marketed , and UK manufacturers are stepping up production of GaAs materials . |
| 2 | Gulf oil states are stepping up production of a " green " petrol additive in an effort to meet the requirements of the US Clean Air Act , which demands higher levels of oxygen in petrol . |
| 3 | The pessimists feared the Conservatives ' nine seats could even be wiped out north of the border . |
| 4 | But none of them will be giving up hope of the £102,000 top prize — and nor will Nick Faldo on 12 under and Seve Ballesteros on 11 under . |
| 5 | The most likely outcome of such action would be to speed up privatisation of the service , since the Government could hardly empty the jails , and somebody would have to supervise the inmates . |
| 6 | What we do n't know , of course , is how they organized their living accommodation , whether they ever got paid , they were given these sort of , £ tickets that were supposed to be honoured later on , but as far as we can make out , they hardly ever were , erm and how the people got on , we just have to use our imagination , but it is interesting that here for instance in these three , we actually apart from anything else have two women house-holders , who are obviously erm women who are carrying on business of some independence . |
| 7 | Baghdad declared that its forces were mopping up west of Fish Lake , having ‘ purged ’ the lake of the first and second waves of Iranians to cross . |
| 8 | In the Euro-elections of June 1989 the Tories were wiped out north of the border . |
| 9 | The Clouds are of immense importance to astronomers , and it is partly for this reason that many of the great new telescopes are being set up south of the equator , where the Clouds are accessible . |
| 10 | What a sickening feast of hypocrisy we were served up courtesy of the Freddie Mercury Tribute . |
| 11 | Through archaeological and other studies , buildings and other remains are yielding up information of centuries which were not , as thought by our grandfathers , representative solely of barbarianism and the negation of culture . |
| 12 | Though he 's handed down management of the firm to his daughter Margaret , Cyril still spends each morning making sandwiches at the back of the shop … then it 's off to the bakery in nearby Wanborough in the afternoon . |
| 13 | and that 's going back sort of three |
| 14 | Faced with a band of former employees livid that the company is phasing out payment of medical expenses for life for its retired employees , the company said the phase-out , over three years , was essential to the survival of the company , which remains on the fragile edge of recovery . |
| 15 | Baltimore-based Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Maryland is to turn over operation of its LifeCard electronic claims network to Electronic Data Systems Corp on undisclosed terms : the LifeCard operations , which transmit 5.8m claims annually over its network — 30% of the insurer 's total volume — will continue at the Owings Mills , Maryland location and all LifeCard employees will be offered employment by the General Motors Corp subsidiary , which will upgrade the network , expanded it and rename it the Maryland Health Information Network . |
| 16 | It is the first Scottish Office contract to have been lost by Her Majesty 's Stationery Office since it was set up north of the Border in 1906 with the primary aim of servicing the Scottish Office . |
| 17 | He was handing over management of three monuments to Dartmoor National Park Authority . |