Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even within such an order there are enough complexities of signals , of a different kind — the ‘ command performance ’ , in honour of the already honoured ; the ‘ private view ’ — who has been invited to look in this privileged way ? ; the ‘ special performance ’ , for an audience of a socially selected type — to remind us of the always variable — historically and culturally variable-social organization and social function of art . |
| 2 | And will the six percent , which the Director of Education has been instructed to save across all central budgets , be enough to cover this years ' education overspend ? |
| 3 | It is the first time the North American public has been asked to vote on such an issue . |
| 4 | With the restoration of Hampton Court Palace nearing completion , Trevor Barnes meets an American who has been asked to work on some of the most important recreations of Grinling Gibbons ' original carvings |
| 5 | And , of course , Oi has been invented to cater for this disillusioned neo-skinhead market : — ‘ Oi started after Sham 69 got famous ’ , said Roy , guitarist with The Last Resort , ‘ All of a sudden , they did n't want to know skins . |
| 6 | He also has been compelled to sit out most of the practices since Scotland 's omission from the Cup stages at Canberra last week . |
| 7 | Launched with private funds in a room on the university 's campus , it has been forced to relocate on several occasions . |
| 8 | It is as if Blake is taking our hand and compelling us to see what he sees : streets mapped out , chartered , known , possessing no vital life of their own but owned ; a river that has been forced to fit into this scheme , that is likewise owned , and hence deprived of some intrinsic quality that should belong to rivers . |
| 9 | The purpose of our work has been to try to look at all aspects of sign language which might help those who make choices . |
| 10 | If that does not work , then the internal complaints procedure comes into its own and the dissatisfied client should be referred to another member of the firm ( possibly the senior partner ) or , though this perhaps will rarely be encountered , someone outside the firm who has been nominated to deal with such matters . |
| 11 | The two-mile race has been chosen to round off both horses ' preparations for the Arkle Challenge Trophy at the Festival on 16 March . |
| 12 | Quite clearly , to the shame of local and central government , the homelessness crisis has been allowed to get to such a level that I would describe it as a national disgrace . ’ |
| 13 | Even the mighty ostrich has been known to resort to this form of deception . |
| 14 | Cortically blind patients have often been reported to lack OKN , although the response has been found to recover after some months . |
| 15 | Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) . |
| 16 | The " eyebrow flash " as it has been called has been found to occur in many widely different cultures . |
| 17 | As a state party to the United Nations Convention Against Torture , Egypt is required to ‘ ensure that any individual who alleges he has been subjected to torture in any territory under its jurisdiction has the right to complain to , and to have his case promptly and impartially examined by , its competent authorities … ’ |
| 18 | Every species has a slightly different solution to the problem of getting about , and the amount of work required to go at a particular speed depends in part on how well an animal has been designed to move at that speed . |
| 19 | Peter Williams had the sort of nice neat blazer that everyone can remember being forced to wear at some traumatic stage in their lives , while the commentators and summarisers , who all sounded about 70 , had a comfortingly narrow command of the English language . |
| 20 | Agreement on the actions needed is beginning to emerge from these recent meetings of politicians , administrators and scientists . |
| 21 | And the extra that they should have had is going to pay for these uniforms . |
| 22 | This one has the kind of treble output that makes the guitar sound gnarly even when it 's clean , and it 's got that lovely cheesy boiing sound to the bottom string — the kind of tone you know is guaranteed to cut across that poxy synthesiser . |
| 23 | Parliament may have been intending to legislate in such all-embracing terms . |
| 24 | It is arguable that the opportunity should have been taken to deal with this matter by way of criminal penalties . |
| 25 | It would also now risk being seen to act as much in the interests of its own credibility , as in support of a sincerely-held belief . |
| 26 | The choice between going for a company limited by shares or one limited by guarantee is thus largely dependent on whether the surveyors involved are having to put up most of the funds themselves . |
| 27 | The students hurry about in a state of permanent excitement , as if they were amazed to have been chosen to live in such a sumptuous place , to eat breakfast under chandeliers . |
| 28 | Pre-emptive analgesia has , indeed , been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies . |
| 29 | A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) . |
| 30 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |