Example sentences of "[adj] be [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although communists were a nuisance it was fascist anti-semitism which caused the real headache ; if this were outlawed then the problem would be removed . |
| 2 | As much as 85 per cent of cars had a radio , and over half were used whenever the car was driven . |
| 3 | I mean if , if she wanted you to go out there today , just if then the sensible is to pick up a taxi . |
| 4 | Colleagues this is taking away the trade union 's right to negotiate a redundancy package on behalf of our members we need to negotiate a package when it 's required for the members and for the members being forced out of their jobs with just a statutory they should recompense their service . |
| 5 | If this is done courteously the call may be transferred to that person . |
| 6 | If this is done then the status of the file and the action that has been taken can be easily verified by others . |
| 7 | If this is achieved then a sentence is produced otherwise failure is announced . |
| 8 | The object is to win — and the way to achieve this is to knock out the opponent . |
| 9 | Designing the placement programme is a question of understanding the process which is operating and the effect this is having as the experience proceeds . |
| 10 | One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer , and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions . |
| 11 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 12 | Comparatively few consultants had directly approached search firms for a job , but this is becoming more the case , especially in the USA , and will become more common as executive search becomes more generally accepted and regarded as an attractive career in its own right . |
| 13 | An example of this is walking up an escalator at the same speed that the escalator is moving downwards . |
| 14 | With ball-valves the best remedy is complete replacement of the old valve with an equilibrium type ; this is designed so the valve can not be forced open by the incoming water pressure , only by movement of the float arm . |
| 15 | One is doing something with a Mouli not recommended by Prue Leith 's School of Food and Wine diploma course ; another is bending over a table ; a third is spitting on to his palms . |
| 16 | You see the tractor driving it , there 's the load , this was gathering up the hay as it went along and it tipped it over and we had to make the loads you see . |
| 17 | The purpose of Study 2 was to carry out a laboratory task which allowed measurement of feelings of risk and a controlled test of memory for driving situations . |
| 18 | One was to downgrade a proposed new peer to a knighthood ; another was to leave out a name completely . |
| 19 | One of the best ways to keep pro-active is to feed regularly the client with new information — even rumour and gossip — that show him you are thinking about his company and its commercial interests . |
| 20 | These are offered once a month on Saturdays , from 9.30am . |
| 21 | Gambon relishes the Mafia boss routine and the scene where he gives Luciano his famous scar is somewhat offputting — but not as stomach-turning as the sight of a mad dog rival of Lucky 's biting off a hoodlum 's nose , then cutting out another 's tongue . |
| 22 | If nothing obvious is found then the pump needs testing to ensure it is delivering the correct pressure . |
| 23 | To reveal these is to peel back a curtain and show this version of institutional order is only one social possibility , and furthermore is a continually manipulated experience . |
| 24 | You have certain losers in Clubs and a good plan in hands like these is to play out the suit in which you have certain losers and wait to see what the opposition do . |
| 25 | When all were examined together a trend of increasing risk with lower social class was also found ( test for trend x=5.72 , p=0.02 ) . |
| 26 | Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing |
| 27 | That lease runs out in 1997 , when the Chinese are to take back the East 's foremost capitalist city , with its six million inhabitants . |
| 28 | Some 60 to 100 Chinese are sent home every day . |
| 29 | The graveyard was packed with people , more were arriving down the farm lanes and along the main road from east and west . |
| 30 | Informix Software Ltd is setting up an investigation unit in the UK , providing a free , confidential phone line for resellers and users and including a licence manager with its software , in a new initiative to clamp down on software piracy in its reseller channel . |