Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most products have been developed to suit general needs or niche needs . |
| 2 | The Regulations are intended to protect ordinary consumers and therefore do not apply where the customer is a company or corporate body or where the customer is making the contract for his business purposes . |
| 3 | Others are intended to introduce new skills and knowledge for these demanding professions . |
| 4 | Some are designed to update existing qualifications and knowledge , so assume previous knowledge of the subject . |
| 5 | Formal devices are designed to reinforce expected behaviours and , where deviations do occur , members employ these devices to correct those deviations . |
| 6 | You are forbidden to ask any questions or try to discover who the person is . |
| 7 | Is it because you are expected to express good wishes or thanks , or because you are old and wise and expected to give advice , or because you are an extrovert and known for being humorous , because you are closely related to the other members of the family , or because you are a friend who has known the bride and groom for many years ? |
| 8 | Roads built to service the project are expected to attract slash-and-burn settlers and , possibly , illegal loggers . |
| 9 | Other items of stonework and white marble figures are expected to bring five-figure sums and a total of £50,000 or more is hoped for when they go under the hammer on the 27th and 28th of this month . |
| 10 | Some are modified to transmit electric impulses and are linked into a network which amounts to a primitive nervous system ; others are able to contract in length and so can be considered as simple muscles . |
| 11 | The research project has been designed to remedy existing gaps and weaknesses in research related to Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Each garden room has been designed to group particular plants and colours to best affect . |
| 13 | Two or three high-speed automatic membrane-osmometers have now been designed to reduce these drawbacks and are commercially available . |
| 14 | Detective Inspector Alan Brown said it had been done to create more addicts but resulted in a trebling of the number of fatalities . |
| 15 | While titles and locations have been placed in retrieval fields , this has been done to emphasize these elements and to stress the ideas of sources of information , seen as an important concept in history teaching . |
| 16 | It had been built to accommodate sixteen patients and in February of that year was occupied by twenty-one paupers , for whose maintenance the Board of Guardians had been responsible . |
| 17 | Career-wise , especially , it seems you are destined to scale new heights and what takes place sometime around October 29 and again on November 3 will put you firmly in the big league and back in the money again . |
| 18 | Attempts have been made to compare various tests and to examine their reliability and validity . |
| 19 | Allowing a realistic amount of time is crucial if we are serious about asking people who are disabled to make informed decisions and choices . |
| 20 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 21 | Full assessment and nursing diagnoses are made using special tools and recording equipment , such as ultrasonography . |
| 22 | Ah know we 're build in' multi-bloody-storey flats an' whatnot an' there 's all sorts of clever bloody plans for the clever bloody future … . |
| 23 | We 're going to install temporary buildings and hopefully the children will be back at school next week . |
| 24 | Every now and again you 're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while . |
| 25 | On the other hand each time they get a report they 're going to have ten pieces or their work on each report |
| 26 | They 're compelled to infest other races and multiply like a cancer within . ’ |
| 27 | They will be talking as they eat and it 's distracting and embarrassing to have to juggle something fussy and awkward while you 're trying to make new friends and business contacts . |
| 28 | In America the Rainforest Alliance and Green Cross are attempting to monitor sustainable sources but the two organisations have complimentary skills , and will benefit from a coordinating body which will hopefully be able to make more efficient use of the many diverse groups working on rainforest practices . |
| 29 | Languages therefore differ widely in the way they are equipped to handle various notions and express various aspects of experience , possibly because they differ in the degree of importance or relevance that they attach to such aspects of experience . |
| 30 | Nor do they necessarily all share the same interpretation of the events in which they participate ; rival themes are thrust forward , and the same lines are used to justify contradictory claims and interests . |