Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 2 | Page upon page has been filled with Cabinet splits , the Europe crisis , the economic crisis , the industrial and jobs crisis , the Mellor crisis … and a crisis of leadership . |
| 3 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 4 | While today 's soul singers tend to reflect the mores of a new black middle class , their erstwhile role — as an authentic voice or urban black experience — had been filled by rap artists . |
| 5 | All sections are counterstained with cresyl violet . |
| 6 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 7 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 8 | AIRLINE boss Richard Branson is on the verge of victory against British Airways rival Lord King after claiming a ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign had been waged against Virgin Atlantic . |
| 9 | The issue of interpretation arises again , because many systems considered have not been examined with fibre optics , through they have this potential . |
| 10 | The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations . |
| 11 | Walls and ceilings in the germination rooms and steeping areas have been clad with plastic panelling to facilitate cleaning . |
| 12 | The government of C. R. ( later Earl ) Attlee accepted the recommendations ; Turner 's second decade as director was devoted primarily to implementing them , recruiting and training young scholars , including many whose interest had been aroused during war service in Asia or Africa , and building up strong academic departments . |
| 13 | Most meetings are punctuated with champagne toasts , many are held in expensive restaurants . |
| 14 | The islands have never been joined to South America and because of their isolation they contain large numbers of endemic organisms . |
| 15 | They had been joined by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Grierson . |
| 16 | Hamburgers and disco biscuits are undercover terms for the rave drug Ecstasy , while royalty is cocaine and poor quality drugs are dismissed as flea powder . |
| 17 | Consumer protection laws are justified on efficiency grounds , in order to prevent consumers making unwise decisions because of insufficient knowledge of firms ' products . |
| 18 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 19 | A new dimension is added , and the conflicts are placed between ego instincts and object instincts , both of a sexual , libidinal nature . |
| 20 | Certain limitations are placed on property damage . |
| 21 | Three percent are classed as ineducable and either stay at home with their families or are placed in welfare institutions — parents wishing to have teaching for these children have to pay privately . |
| 22 | The data for band 1 are placed in memory bank 1 which provides the red input to the TV monitor display . |
| 23 | A considerable investment has been made in the redevelopment of the Piper field , which achieved first oil in February 1993 , having been delayed by construction schedule slippages and bad weather at the end of 1992 . |
| 24 | The budget debate had been delayed by opposition demands for an investigation into the government 's role in the various scandals . |
| 25 | A controversial plan for a bypass around Aylesbury has been delayed by county councillors . |
| 26 | Cyclic-AMP-regulated chloride conductances are altered in airway epithelia from CF patients r4–6 , suggesting that the functional expression of CFTR in the airways of CF patients may be a strategy for treatment . |
| 27 | Income taxes are more ‘ visible ’ to individuals than expenditure taxes , which to some extent are hidden in product prices . |
| 28 | Most of the year they are hidden in rock crevices . |
| 29 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 30 | P&O Ferries Ltd — Concessionary rates are given to Group employees and close relatives travelling on the P&O Ferries Orkney and Shetland Services — Aberdeen/Lerwick and Scrabster/Stromness routes . |