Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [art] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , there has been a desire both to move into the countryside and , for many young professional people , to move into areas fairly close to city centres . |
| 2 | I believe that it is a success because there has been an opportunity here to get the Sunday trading case debated in the House of Commons , although it is very early in the morning and we all have difficulty in stringing our sentences together . |
| 3 | What is often not appreciated is the need also to provide a stable and profitable agriculture that can support the infrastructure it needs There is a danger that farmers will not be given adequate incentives to grow produce efficiently and environmentally responsibly . |
| 4 | It had been a mistake ever to force herself upon them . |
| 5 | The nature of the court 's work There had been a tendency largely to disregard applications as being incidental to the main task of deciding appeals and as not significant in themselves . |
| 6 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 7 | But what fact is there in virtue of which the disposition then created was a disposition now to go on one way rather than another ? |
| 8 | All we need is a clock somewhere to chime the midnight hour . |