Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You would be drawing sucker from E two in your anti-development policies in your local plan .
2 The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely next parliamentary session .
3 The plans come as ministers are understood to be finalising plans for legislation to introduce voluntary membership of student unions , with a bill likely in the next parliamentary session .
4 But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time .
5 ‘ But with the deflated pound giving the big-spending Germans more pocket money , it could be raining pfennigs from heaven . ’
6 The government has at last acknowledged that ‘ disappearances ’ do take place and that it is a problem which needs addressing , and Amnesty International expects to be submitting cases for investigation by the Commission .
7 The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries .
8 I 'd just like to reiterate Peter 's point , they have started importing coal from probably South Africa , to use at Didcot , it would be in the south , we 'd be using coal from South Africa at Didcot .
9 Er because of the problems the stock piles of coal at various pits , I think there is about forty five million tons stocked at various pits , they 'll still be using coal from Bywater and so that there 's no necessity to mine coal in such er vast amount .
10 ’ We will be building cables with ducts leading off to every house , which can easily be connected if they want the service . ’
11 Workmen were said to be removing loads of so-called chips three times a day , and even to be building huts from waste timber in which to store chips they were unable to carry out at once .
12 True , the local history researcher is more likely to be pursuing investigations through source materials provided by Anglo-Saxon charters , medieval rolls , maps , land grants , muster documents and the like , but the uses of heraldry are not to be despised in the processes of rounding out historical themes .
13 On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution .
14 A question might arise as to whether spectators can be given directions under sections 12 or 14 , or be guilty of offences of failing to comply with such conditions .
15 a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas .
16 After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils .
17 A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service .
18 Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors .
19 It is important , especially in my area , to accept that Mersey has achieved dramatic reductions in health service waiting lists , for which Sir Donald Wilson should be given credit in Mersey and Mr. Peter Hayes for the part that he has played in Macclesfield .
20 Redeployment Redeployed staff should be given consideration for vacancies occurring within any area of the Group .
21 Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme .
22 Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme .
23 Mr Will would help on Works , and Miss Hamlet and Dr Alexander would be given instruction in DOS , including the EDLIN text editor .
24 The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance .
25 Even rented accommodation has been taken up almost exclusively by incomers : company allowances and incomers ' higher salaries generally have meant that rents have increased and that incomers tend to be given preference as tenants .
26 Several swimmers had to be given gulps of oxygen at the pool-side .
27 erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before .
28 The New Secondary Education , the pamphlet approved by Ellen Wilkinson and issued in 1947 , observed somewhat unhelpfully : ‘ The Modern School will be given parity of conditions with other types of secondary school ; parity of esteem it must earn by its own efforts . ’
29 Debtors who showed the courts that they had made their best efforts to pay , and also showed they were not fraudulent or reckless in incurring debt could be given relief from liabilities after three years .
30 He insisted on the principle of the –subordination of characters ' — some characters were more fundamental than others and should be given pride of place in assessing degrees of relationship .
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