Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't actually pleased with Zak as I did n't want to risk being identified as an actor , but that , I supposed , would be a great deal better than the truth . |
| 2 | A PLAN to draw up registers of land which may be polluted has been abandoned by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 3 | The desire to diversify has been prompted by a need to boost dwindling profit margins in an increasingly competitive traditional banking sector . |
| 4 | The courtyard thus formed has been adopted by the Manx government who intent to develop it as a garden area . |
| 5 | A very small proportion , my Lord Mayor , of of what affects the City 's financial position , is your own car , Sir , which I am delighted to see has been plugged into the controlling group 's revenue expenditure this year . |
| 6 | None of the museums consulted has been approached as a possible venue for any of the ‘ WONDERS ’ shows . |
| 7 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 8 | What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that each of the two cases to which he has referred was decided by the trial judge on the basis of medical evidence , including independent medical evidence . |
| 10 | In this case , Madeline Usher has been buried in the family vault below the house , supposedly dead . |
| 11 | none of the systems to be reported has been tested in a way which would allow evaluation of their linguistic effectiveness . |
| 12 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 13 | The deterioration to be expected has been analysed by the author , and results for the 80/20 case are given here . |
| 14 | A Brigade statement said : ‘ The decision to disband has been taken by the leadership and will prevent any members reforming under any other name . ’ |
| 15 | Even the government 's re-entry into the gilts market as public borrowing has risen is seen as a sign of hope . |
| 16 | I agree that all the facts which my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) has said are contained in the 1991 paper are true . |
| 17 | 4 Check that a medical discharge note explaining what operation the patient has had is sent to the General Practitioner . |
| 18 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 19 | All you 'll need to do is sit on a horse . |
| 20 | All an eavesdropper has to do is key in the broad frequency and then ‘ tweak ’ it a little to get the fine tuning . |
| 21 | All he has to do is talk to the Whips , and we will have a debate on sport any time he likes . |
| 22 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |
| 23 | All Gorby has to do is sit at a desk , saying nothing . |
| 24 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Now what I want to do is go through the blocking today , so that Micky and George can start to feel the shape of the production . |
| 26 | This is for the sensible reason that the last thing ministers want to do is to listen to an argument about figures being wrong . |
| 27 | But if all you want to do is sit in the gardens or laze by the pool , they will allow it ! |
| 28 | The only type of legal research that most practising lawyers want to do is research into the law relating to a case that they have on hand . |
| 29 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 30 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |