Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main tasks of such an authority would be to issue contracts for the performance of particular tasks coupled with supervisory and inspection to ensure that they were adequately performed . |
| 2 | An arms trade committee , the function of which would be to issue export licences to enterprises , was in preparation . |
| 3 | You would be drawing sucker from E two in your anti-development policies in your local plan . |
| 4 | This may , however , change by the end of the century when most married women in employment will be drawing retirement pensions reflecting their previous earnings . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , it is not possible to state what the overall dependency total is , as most supplementary benefit claimants will also be drawing housing benefit . |
| 6 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 7 | Because of these difficulties , there is a widespread view that auditors will regularly be drawing attention to inherent uncertainties surrounding the going concern . |
| 8 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But director Phil Noyce called for the scene to be re-shot time after time . |
| 12 | During the following two days , a flint knapper will be crafting tools among the castle 's prehistoric displays , and on June 4 and 5 the museum 's Spitting Image-style puppet Bulbus Ludicrus , the Roman legionary , will again be in residence . |
| 13 | He was quick to point out , however , that one should not therefore equate the law of value with the law of labour expenditure , since to do so would be to lose sight of the specific historical form and character of value relations . |
| 14 | Your aim should not be to lose weight , but to bring your eating habits under your control . |
| 15 | I think his natural instinct might be to hit Charles rather hard . |
| 16 | On Dec. 5 Hachani announced that the FIS would not be organizing street demonstrations in the run-up to the elections , in order not to " draw the country into a spiral of confrontations , in which the only beneficiaries will be the enemies of the Islamic solution " . |
| 17 | Mr Dilworth explained that our programmes would form part of the radio services for the troops wherever they were , at home or abroad , that those concerned with broadcast production would be organizing War Bonds and recruiting campaigns , and that keeping at our work would be the best way of serving the war effort . |
| 18 | ‘ But with the deflated pound giving the big-spending Germans more pocket money , it could be raining pfennigs from heaven . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Bishop said that the ACCA was in the process of looking at the job 's terms of reference within the context of the ACCA 's future strategy and would be contacting headhunters shortly . |
| 20 | Before the end of the session , we shall also be contacting centre co-ordinators , asking for information about first destinations of candidates who have completed a general SVQ . |
| 21 | Hopefully team owner Frank Williams — rumoured to be courting Ayrton Senna as Prost 's team mate for 1994 — will have noticed . |
| 22 | Attempting to take up a post abroad without any preparatory updating could be courting disaster . |
| 23 | With Convex already under its belt , Dolphin is now understood to be courting Data General Corp , and already selling SCI simulation systems and high level design language implementations to the likes of Apple Computers Inc and the Centre for Research into Nucleonics , Geneva , Switzerland . |
| 24 | He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket . |
| 25 | Yet the laibon seems to be suggesting complicity by his own family in what Fairfax calls ‘ the balls-up ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't possibly be suggesting Father intimidates her , ’ Guy said . |
| 27 | It promises to be electrifying stuff . |
| 28 | Presumably ACE will be submitting evidence . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On 6 January 1991 , the inspector swore an affidavit indicating that he would be submitting papers to the Board with a view to issuing a notice . |