Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them were so badly damaged that they sank or were forced to withdraw as shell splinters cut their steering lines and tracer set fire to fuel tanks , but they gave a good account of themselves because the port was defended by well-sited , quick-firing guns used for anti-aircraft or anti-ship fire . |
| 2 | Finally , any other COB rule that expressly indicates that it is not restricted to regulated business will also apply ; the firm must therefore comply with those COB Rules that are expressed to apply to investment business ( rather than the narrower regulated business ) . |
| 3 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 4 | The proportion of any additional income that is saved ( the marginal propensity to save ) will tend to vary according to the tastes and preferences of the individual , and one might expect the proportion that is saved to increase as income increases . |
| 5 | Meantime process-type industries make up some 60% of the total number of Ross 's manufacturing customers — a figure that is expected to grow in line with the expected 15% to 20% increase in the UK market for process-based systems — and Ross intends it to include an increasing number of large multinational customers . |
| 6 | They crept — through a city that was continuing to recoil in face of invasion . |
| 7 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 8 | set to break a record are the milers club of Great britain … they 're in action at Iffley Road tomorrow … and are aiming to break to world records … both relays in men and women … |
| 9 | set to break a record are the milers club of Great britain … they 're in action at Iffley Road tomorrow … and are aiming to break to world records … both relays in men and women … |
| 10 | It is possibly that the judging system in Australia , where almost all judges are all-rounders and are passed to judge at group level , has not helped the development of type in Australia . |
| 11 | Students of linguistics are taught early on about the importance of binary oppositions like this one , and are encouraged to look for two-term contrasts , x and not-x , in the linguistic data they analyse . |
| 12 | All right , I am going to be brave and am going to talk about failure . |
| 13 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 14 | While genuinely instrumental styles had emerged in keyboard and lute music and were beginning to emerge in ensemble music , the problem of purely instrumental construction remained unsolved except in the short dance-forms . |
| 15 | The officials were charged with kidnap and assault and were ordered to return to court in October . |
| 16 | When the clothes were wet and were put to dry in front of the household 's fire , they polluted the whole atmosphere with sulphurous fumes . |
| 17 | The two younger brothers , Charles and John , had no such luck , and were forced to look for accommodation of their own ; Charles found his on Pig Street — appropriately named , in view of his activity as a pig butcher — just north of Frome town bridge . |
| 18 | Growth varies with individuals , however , and is said to vary between winter and summer . |
| 19 | The mortgage is fixed for three years at 10.3pc ( APR 10.9pc ) and is designed to appeal to home buyers seeking an affordable mortgage with inbuild stability of payments . |
| 20 | Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd says that a memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Communications Authority of Thailand , the Directorate General of Posts and Telecommunications of Vietnam and OTC International of Australia to build a new optical fibre submarine cable system linking Thailand , Vietnam and Hong Kong ; the planned cable will also link to other cable systems and give direct connections to the rest of the world , and is set to come into service by the end of 1995 . |
| 21 | Gazza will make his debut in Italian soccer for his new team Lazio within the next eight days , and is raring to go for club and country . |
| 22 | The doctor concerned is now recovering and is expected to return to work in the near future . |
| 23 | A lorry driver has been charged and is expected to appear in court soon . |
| 24 | In 1991 the UK current account deficit was a little over £6 billion and is expected to double in size to £12 billion or more by the end of 1992 . |
| 25 | A prototype Il-103 is under construction at Ilyushin 's Moscow factory and is expected to fly in mid-1993 , in time for the aircraft to make its debut at the Business & Light Aviation Exhibition at North Weald next September . |
| 26 | Question : Which piece of equipment works for you for 365 days a year , 24 hours a day , saves you money , protects your reputation , helps you comply with the law , and is expected to function without complaint for up to 10 years ? |
| 27 | The Treaty on European Union , which was signed at Maastricht on 7 February 1992 and is expected to come into force during 1993 , has widened areas where qualified majority voting applies before the Council . |
| 28 | The ignimbrites were collected in a strike-slip rift valley ( 100x15km ) related to the Cordillera Blanca fault system , an important crustal structure which marks the western boundary of the batholith ( Fig. 1 ) and is thought to extend at depth to the source region of the complex . |
| 29 | Like many other aspects of the National Health Service , the finance function has changed , and is continuing to change over time . |
| 30 | Then the man was checking , and was remembering to speak in English . |