Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 2 | You 're going to do all the things you want to do . |
| 3 | Work your way through the guide and you 're going to answer all the questions on the quiz . |
| 4 | They 're going to find all the cows . |
| 5 | We 're going to play all the hits , too , for people that want to come and hear them . |
| 6 | And you 're trying to amalgamate all the unions together to make it easier for them . |
| 7 | With no justification , Gervase Markham called angling ‘ the Sport and Recreation of God 's Saints ’ ; that was in 1614 , but already the act of delicate deception that remains central to the pastime had been used to illustrate both the wiles of Satan ( who baits his hooks with sin ) and the grim harvest of Death ( who swaps his scythe for float-tackle ) . |
| 8 | ‘ So we are going to bring all the plants that they do n't want over here more rushes and sedges and aquatic plants to diversify the habitat . ’ |
| 9 | Items which are physically attached to the front cover gain in that they could not really be more prominently displayed and are bound to reach all the purchasers of the magazine . |
| 10 | We are conditioned to believe all the books we read about what a mother should be . |
| 11 | The personnel file might be examined to list all the employees who meet the following criteria : |
| 12 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 13 | In my judgment , provided the specified precondition is met , the only limitations on the type of order that can be made under section 6(2) that are justified by the statutory language are that the order must be intended to restore all the parties to the transaction to their respective former positions and that the steps directed by the order to be taken must be reasonably capable of doing so . |
| 14 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 15 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 16 | On the other hand , care has to be taken to prevent the scope of applications being limited , as users can not be expected to know all the possibilities that computers offer . |
| 17 | Option 1.5.4 — View User Status Enquiries can be used to list all the packages which have been submitted for approval by a user . |
| 18 | I want you to relax on your birthday so first I 'm going to do all the laundry next I 'm going to do all the dishes and then I 'm going to vacuum the whole house . |
| 19 | Because I went up to their fabric department and I want to after Christmas I 'm going to wash all the covers on the er settees , you know er the dralon . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to find all the historians round here , ’ he said , ‘ and get them to pay money to keep me going . |
| 21 | That it 's very , very difficult indeed to be trained to know all the parts of it . |
| 22 | And so , I 'm asked to record all the conversations I make this week . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm meant to ask all the names like . ’ |
| 24 | Pupils should be encouraged to formulate first the questions they need to answer by using such sources , so that they use them effectively and do not simply copy verbatim ; |
| 25 | Could it be their governments do not believe that the Iraqi regime will eventually be forced to make good the costs of the operation ? |
| 26 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 27 | Lapse Theory can be invoked to explain all the results described above , but it remains unclear whether the lapses in attention induced by lowered arousal are the only important symptoms of sleep loss . |
| 28 | That is happening all over the country and the tenants will be required to accept all the costs of repairs . |
| 29 | As far as Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) is concerned , the United Kingdom must be ordered to pay all the costs , including those of the Kingdom of Spain , which intervened in support of the Commission 's conclusions , but with the exception of the costs incurred by Ireland , which intervened in support of the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | We had been led to expect all the guillemots , but there were no black guillemots either on the ledges or in the sea . |