Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iced sardines are trodden underfoot to soften them up . |
| 2 | That schools be encouraged both to maintain their choral tradition and to liaise with local church musicians , in order to agree on a common repertoire of hymns and songs ( 610–614 ) . |
| 3 | She felt the tight leather skirt being wriggled upwards to bare her scorching behind , and when his cool fingers touched her hot flesh she realised just how hot she was for him . |
| 4 | The panel pattern template is wanted primarily to enable you to mark the ripstop . |
| 5 | Appropriate knowledge and communication skills ( information-giving , teaching , counselling ) are required for these activities and skill is needed also to decide which communication approach is relevant to the circumstances . |
| 6 | AN OLD BAILEY judge was forced yesterday to revoke his sentence on a 13-year-old boy who tortured a pupil at his school . |
| 7 | Her achievements have not been forgotten , and five awards are given annually to commemorate her work in the field of nutrition and public awareness of healthy eating . |
| 8 | Sometimes the Ferrars were asked also to teach them their Catechisms . |
| 9 | Those in the diet group were asked both to reduce their intake of refined carbohydrates and to increase their dietary fibre by substituting high for low fibre products and by taking supplements of standardised wheat bran ( three or four ×7.5 g sachets of Prewett 's coarse wheat bran ) . |
| 10 | COMPANIES in the offshore oil business were urged yesterday to change their thinking on ways of operating so that the North Sea could compete with other areas seeking shares of limited investment funds . |
| 11 | But , assuming we do incorporate such considerations , the tendency is to interpret such mobility as again largely the result of capital 's needs , with workers being uprooted simply to increase their monetary rewards , and capital benefiting as a result . |
| 12 | In 1983 the Soviet media cited a New York Times report that in the absence of an agreement with the United States on the bases Greek officials were prepared simply to liquidate them and were ‘ seriously considering taking up a position of neutrality similar , for example , to that adhered to by Sweden ’ . |
| 13 | You think this war was started just to inconvenience you . |
| 14 | Helen was called home to help her sister , Irene , in her employment and during this ten-week secretarial stint she and Edward met frequently on the Common as Helen returned from her work . |
| 15 | When the bull died , it was buried with all due ceremony and the next Apis , Mnevis or Buchis was brought forward to take its place . |
| 16 | Problems are set chiefly to test your ability to apply the law you know , and the examiner will speedily tire of reading an account of the law that is not brought into direct relation to the problem . |
| 17 | Consequently , and inevitably , all junior officers were drafted there to do their stint in the overcrowded , overheated and noisy halls of the new airport which seemed to expand and change in a bewildering chaos of new cement and plaster board overnight . |
| 18 | The shape of the new general SVQs in information technology is currently being widely discussed , and a one-day seminar was held recently to consider their design . |
| 19 | Yeah but , I mean yo , people are allowed now to put their own in are n't they ? |
| 20 | Arguments are put forward to show their importance to an understanding of the relationship of women to the home , and to suggest that they have had a significant influence on British architecture . |
| 21 | This , of course , is the mechanism of the consensus process : the expanding firm is persuaded either to delay its application or to accept a delayed approval . |
| 22 | Mahogany is used here to make anything from doors and window-frames to coffins and toilet-seats . |
| 23 | THE Government was challenged yesterday to overhaul its employment statistics as Labour 's front bench employment team accused ministers of ‘ statistical sleight of hand ’ in claiming a huge expansion of jobs in the eighties . |
| 24 | The crowds incidentally , were congratulated on their demeanour ; ‘ the ropes were used seldomly to stop them crowding round the players and interfering with play ’ . |
| 25 | Some examples are listed below to help you . |
| 26 | in which all the fingertips of the hand are joined together to form something that resembles a bird 's beak . |
| 27 | The system was improved in 1597 , when ministers and churchwardens were instructed henceforth to keep their records in a bound register and to copy out surviving documents at least as far back as 1558 , when Elizabeth came to the throne . |
| 28 | The ships soon lost sight of each other and for three days were tossed violently about while cannon , horses , weapons and even food were thrown overboard to lighten them . |
| 29 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |
| 30 | Winchester were entitled legitimately to conduct their investment business only by reason of their status as the authorised representative of Norwich . |