Example sentences of "be [verb] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry , who comes from Litherland and is secretary of Repcon Strand A.C. , has been catching the bream on single yellow maggots and the tench on caster . |
| 2 | For example , if people are given the pair spoon/fork instead of knife/fork , they will say that fork is masculine . |
| 3 | Sales representatives are employed on a low level of basic salary plus commission , and they are given the sales leads from the head office on a weekly basis . |
| 4 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |
| 5 | We are using the op.amp IC1 here as a non inverting amplifier feeding the input signals from the slider ( moving contact ) of VR1 to the non inverting input ( + ) . |
| 6 | Many of our users are using the data in conjunction with that for previous years . |
| 7 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 8 | Christiani Neilsen and O'Rourke has been given the £60 million contract to build the line 's biggest station at Canary Wharf , creating another 2,000 jobs . |
| 9 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |
| 10 | For example , the IMF calculates that the public spending curbs required if EC governments are to meet the 3% PSBR : GDP target by 1996 , will slow growth across the EC by 0.4 to 0.8 percentage points a year between 1993 and 1996 ( Wolf , 1992 ) . |
| 11 | But camapigners insist that if they are to trust the aircraft information must not be held back from them . |
| 12 | WORK has started to demolish the flats in Weycombe Road , Haslemere , which over the years have been named the Barracks because of their appearance . |
| 13 | Morland says most of its tenants are meeting the sales targets but those landlords faced with fines say the lights on their pubs could soon be going out for good .. |
| 14 | Even more bizarre , she has been reciting the works of a French philosopher throughout the operation while a black stripper dances in the background . |
| 15 | For generations prior to this calamity the custodians and promoters of Yahweh — that is , the now canonized Prophets of Israel — had been warning the people that if they did not abandon their syncretistic ways , the wrath of the one true God would descend upon them . |
| 16 | US intelligence reports of ‘ northern redoubts ’ where Cuban advisers have been training the militia and storing arms and ammunition could also mean a far longer military operation than the Pentagon had originally envisaged . |
| 17 | Because they 're encouraging the people who are providing the business to go out of business . |
| 18 | have locked all the interior doors and they 're keeping the staff in the library and the reception area until I arrive . |
| 19 | Statistics , man , you 're ignoring the statistics ! ’ |
| 20 | Five percent , you know , you 're giving the people the feeling that they can get there . |
| 21 | They 're letting the people of Lincolnshire down . |
| 22 | Er if we 're to understand the dynamics of language in our density and how it exists in the minds of ordinary speakers we must consider the real life record . |
| 23 | Well I would the only thing I can say in this is this cash , I know they said they 'd get it got in the piggy bank before the poll tax , but as they keep shouting about they 've got to put the poll tax up , they 've got no money , they they 're putting the staff off and one thing and another . |
| 24 | Former employees of Maxwell companies say they 're hoping the MPs new initiative could lead to them receiving some compensation . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're concentrating the corps here , instead of at Nivelles . ’ |
| 26 | With the strength of CAMRA as a consumer movement , I welcome the return of the Party Seven into the off-sales world , which is one of the largest sections of the industry , as the large breweries are forcing the £2 pint upon tenant landlords and others , and people turn elsewhere to seek their alcoholic enjoyment . |
| 27 | For 11 years I have been investigating the flora and fauna of this 700 sq.m site . |
| 28 | And so Jesus had been teaching the people . |
| 29 | Companies like 3M , Honda , United Technologies and Apple are providing the means by which new ideas can be recognized and commercialized whether they are insider or outsider generated . |
| 30 | Now we are appealing for money and we are asking the people of Oxfordshire for their help ; money so that we can continue to help people in your county like John Granger … |