Example sentences of "be [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Construction are building the Banbury bypass section of the M 40 . |
| 2 | ‘ The second happiest moments of my life , ’ he said seriously , ‘ have been eating the Franz Joseph 's Matterhorn Torte . |
| 3 | If you are using the Drachenfels Lives ! adventure ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) , you may have a special scene in the Pit , showing a man in an iron mask greeting a bunch of people who are exact duplicates of the adventurers . |
| 4 | For this purpose the investigators are using the UK Family Expenditure Survey pooled over the years 1970 to 1985 set up jointly with the Institute for Fiscal Studies . |
| 5 | In addition , the researchers are using The Mercury 's coverage of national events and events outside Leicestershire in order to build up a national picture . |
| 6 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 7 | Instead , The Charlatans are using the States to ‘ warm up for the British tour ’ and to break in new songs such as ‘ Rainbow Kisser ’ and another one about ‘ people making other people into gods ’ ( Work that one out folks ! ) . |
| 8 | This is especially important if you are using the Likert scale . |
| 9 | The councillors will point to a recent survey by their harbours department which showed that about 5,000 ships a year are using the Pentland Firth . |
| 10 | In recognition of their magnanimity , the original Beaux-Arts portion of the museum has been christened the Tanenbaum Centre of European Art . |
| 11 | It has been christened the Ecotec V6 ( emission , consumption , optimisation and technology ) because of its compactness , economy and cleanness . |
| 12 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
| 13 | The debt counsellor who 'd been helping the Harrises said Dorend Ltd had agreed to wave interest of around £30,000 . |
| 14 | The cost of rehabilitating a patient after a heart attack is somewhat less than being in a hospital bed for a third of a day , so I do not think that we are denting the NHS 's resources by providing this for everybody . |
| 15 | Environmentalists are accusing the UK government of obstructing the passage of EC air pollution laws in an effort to preserve its home market in central heating boilers , which are less efficient than those produced in other EC countries . |
| 16 | HOW C&P ARE HELPING THE NRA TO BUILD A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS |
| 17 | It was in his camp here that he was approached by a French envoy on behalf of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria , the same Maximilian who had been given the Palatine Electorate in 1623 , with a view to saving his lands from the depredations of Gustavus . |
| 18 | As recently as 5 years ago , Leeds would never have been given the Makita tournament or chance to stage matches with a global profile . |
| 19 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 20 | Volpe , Sidtis and Gazzaniga ( 1981 ) observed four left handed patients who had been given the Wada Sodium Amytal test . |
| 21 | What he was particularly interested in is he 's been taught the Yamaha method in fact |
| 22 | Bugatti has been using the Clermont Ferrand race track in central France for development work , courtesy of the circuit 's owner , Michelin . |
| 23 | It is no secret that Damascus has been using the PKK as a bargaining chip to press Turkey into complying with its demands for more water from the Euphrates , on which it heavily depends . |
| 24 | For some years , the Purnells had been using the River Frome , the lower stretch of which had previously been dredged and cleared by Richard Owen Cambridge of Whitminster , to move coal and iron to and from the Severn to their mills at Framilode and Fromebridge . |
| 25 | Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 26 | CONFEDERATE AIR FORCE 's Atlanta , Georgia ( Dixie ) Wing has been assigned the CAF 's Douglas SBD Dauntless for restoration ( illustrated ) . |
| 27 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 28 | Smalltown Heroes EP IT 'S a little tricky to know what to call the ‘ shooters as after 600 gigs under their current name the hard-working Sunderland band are becoming the Smalltown Heroes . |
| 29 | A group of pensioners are sueing the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society after losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in a failed investment scheme . |
| 30 | It is quite obvious that the government have been gearing the NHS up for this plan for some time . |