Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 2 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 3 | The money , £108,000 , would 've been paid out from a mortgage protection policy Stroud and Mr Stokle had taken out when they bought a bungalow together . |
| 4 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 5 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 6 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 7 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 8 | If the WC cistern takes a long time to fill , it is possible that a high-pressure type of ballvalve has been fitted instead of a low-pressure type ( page 38 ) or that there is dirt in the valve orifice . |
| 9 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 10 | The importance of the matrimonial home has been recognised increasingly by the legislature . |
| 11 | This has been recognised periodically since the 17th century . |
| 12 | Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle . |
| 13 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 14 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 15 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 16 | These prizes were awarded to students for commendable achievements and demonstrate the close partnership that has been built up between the polytechnic 's Department of Science and local industry . |
| 17 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 18 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 19 | In this sense an academic discipline has been built up with an explicitly political stance . |
| 20 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 21 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 22 | It is an interesting thought that this whole design has been built up from a series of interlocking rectangles . |
| 23 | The Ferrari has been built up from a shell at an unlikely location on the edge of the Forest of Dean . |
| 24 | The picture has been built up from an analysis of 715 applications to join the group 's management buy-in programme . |
| 25 | The cattle were either ‘ walked ’ down to the marshes direct from market or were brought to the nearest point by train : today they are transported by motor-lorries , and in recent years a rough road has been built right across the marshes to enable lorries to have direct access . |
| 26 | A curing oven , the size of a car garage , has been built specially for the project . |
| 27 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 28 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 29 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |
| 30 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |