Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maturities are designed to take out anticipated shortages at a later date and therefore maturities differ from the standard 91 days . |
| 2 | But none of the employees are expected to take on extra duties after a hard day in the shop . |
| 3 | Paul Warhurst and Phil King are expected to shake off minor injuries in time to face Forest . |
| 4 | In addition a number of smaller samples is examined in detail since they are expected to show up any differences in perspective as between the police and the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 5 | The summer 's sprawl begins to be oppressive at this stage in the year and trigger fingers are itching to snip back overgrown mallows , clear out the mildewing foliage of golden rod and reduce the overpowering bulk of bullyboy ground cover . |
| 6 | Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business . |
| 7 | ‘ Us 'll 'ave to start wearin' shoes if we 're goin' to stick around these parts ! ’ |
| 8 | Around two in 10 policy holders with big insurers are smokers and they 're made to cough up bigger premiums to match the health risks they run . |
| 9 | We 're going to make up identical sets of strings , play them , see which we like , and then analyse and compare the sound pictures . |
| 10 | You ca n't imagine a political party saying we 're going to bring back these things that have gone . ’ |
| 11 | There 's been an article in the paper very recently saying they 're going to bring out some proposals to change those intestacy rules shortly after easter they have n't come out yet . |
| 12 | The received wisdom is that they are not very productive in drama , where we 're trying to open up possible responses . |
| 13 | When you 're trying to wrap up international agreements on global warming and the protection of biodiversity , let alone to devise ‘ an agenda for action ’ for all countries to follow in the next century , things will inevitably escalate . |
| 14 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 15 | At various stations a number of final spot and seam welds are made , and then power grinders are used to smooth down exposed welds and any high spots . |
| 16 | A budget should be built up from first principles , to identify the component tasks , the resources which are needed to carry out these tasks and to enable the required resources to be costed . |
| 17 | Twelve snorers are needed to test out new fittings to muffle noise at the £100-a-night Swallow Hotel in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 18 | They are needed to help along important steps in the body 's metabolism , influencing growth , producing energy , controlling hormones , helping resistance to infection , and maintaining the health of all the tissues in the body . |
| 19 | This information has been used to draw up magnetic maps , similar in style to contour maps . |
| 20 | Many quoted companies , which must satisfy their shareholders ' dividend expectations , are beginning to build up considerable amounts of unrelieved or surplus advance corporation tax ( ACT ) . |
| 21 | POLICE are aiming to track down 30 athletes who hurdled over closed barriers at a railway level-crossing moments before a train hurtled through . |
| 22 | Remember that you are bound to go along some passages that are dead ends . |
| 23 | Garlands of turmeric and garlic are worn to ward off evil spirits . |
| 24 | Not only do these shatter on hard impact , but the edges have been known to nip off any parts straying outside when an incoming kick is struck home . |
| 25 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 26 | Maggot farm odours , to mention but one source , have been known to spread over several miles and affect up to 20,000 people . |
| 27 | Quite a lot , it appears from the matches in this group , the results of which are starting to bring back disturbing visions of those horrendous days under Eoin Hand , when the baleful gods of fortune were using the Republic 's aspirations as a kind of exclusive latrine . |
| 28 | And ask them to take that on board , because I do n't really see why we should be expected to take on both factors . |
| 29 | Its proportions can be varied to take on new shapes . |
| 30 | As well as setting up the scheme , the council will be made to fill in quarterly returns so the government can monitor changes in numbers . |