Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet neutralisation plan for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to open up a strategic dialogue on a broad front to enable Soviet diplomats to introduce Western military preponderance in the Gulf region tacitly or explicitly into the negotiation process for the limitation of Soviet military influence in other regions . |
| 2 | Our policy has been to try to build up a great team and not to weaken our playing strength , and it was for this reason that we accepted the offer made . |
| 3 | In terms of the analogies we have used so far , the Indian traditions are said to orbit around a different sun , or to be climbing a different mountain — or to identify with a family of monsters in the loch quite different from the one followed by the Near Eastern religions . |
| 4 | I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’ |
| 5 | In the US , Social Security numbers are available and are used to build up a unique individual record , so all historical credit and demographic data can be allocated to an individual record with complete confidence . |
| 6 | Indeed , when you want to identify a particular peak from the boulevard , you are told to line up a white mark painted on the balustrade with ‘ the lightning-conductor on the tram factory ’ , which is the most prominent landmark in Pau 's southerly suburb . |
| 7 | You are needed to cheer up a young 21-year-old male . |
| 8 | While just one byte can represent a whole character of text and therefore convey at least some intelligible meaning , thousands , even millions of bytes are needed to build up a single image , particularly if it is in colour and of high resolution . |
| 9 | But we are going to stretch out a fraternal hand to the Ukrainian workers and tell them that , together with them , we are going to fight against our bourgeoisie and theirs . |
| 10 | The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded . |
| 11 | On the basis of the pilot , we are starting to build up a clear picture of how general SVQs are working in practice . |
| 12 | Finally , a unit can be added to print out a complete network diagram . |
| 13 | No woman should be expected to bring up a large family on her own . |
| 14 | Debriefed in fine detail by Donleavy and DIA agent Neal Miller , largely to see what could be done to patch up a new link with the Asmar network , Coleman was told to keep the video gear pending a resolution of ‘ this goddamn DEA fuck-up ’ and to take charge of Syrian George , who , as it happened , had arrived two days earlier on his J-1 visa and was staying at the International House on the University of Alabama campus . |
| 15 | It is sometimes said by government officials — I have heard it said by leading members of the administrations of Tanzania , Nigeria , Sierra Leone and Zambia — that African journalists are not sufficiently experienced to tell when an interested party in a dispute may be attempting to put over a particular point of view or discredit a government policy by using the press or radio . |
| 16 | Fry said : ‘ Bully wo n't be sold to pay off a fine — if he is , I 'll quit . |
| 17 | The feedback from college staff , subject assessors and Field Officers will be used to carry out a detailed evaluation of the model . |
| 18 | AN £8 MILLION grant will be used to clean up a disused tin mine which turned an estuary red with pollution . |
| 19 | Bulletin boards and list servers can be structured like company e-mail in that subsections can be used to follow up a particular discussion or to follow through all the different accounts and editions so that one person can go back and read the whole story from the beginning to the last entry . |
| 20 | There 's a certain amount of history because the moon is if if the earth is spinning round the moon is going round the water that the moon is attracting will be rushing to catch up a little bit . |
| 21 | As the lines were alternately pulled so the pulley actuated a semi-circular rudder hinged across the diagonal of the rearmost box.One does not need to have much imagination to see how the rudder deflection might send the Box kite into limited stunts , given a strong wind ; but we doubt if the rigid stability of a Box kite could be persuaded to perform over a wide range of movement . |
| 22 | I 'm going to put up a good fight . |
| 23 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 24 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 25 | The method adopted was to canvass for capital donations that could then be invested to bring in a regular income , and both Balfour and Law were used to raise the wind . |
| 26 | Thereafter , a general election would take place and the legislators would be invited to draw up a new constitution on Dominion lines . |
| 27 | Consultants will be invited to carry out a major study into the former steel plant , which closed last June with the loss of 1,200 jobs . |
| 28 | In any such case the plaintiff 's solicitor will be sent a reminder of the requirement to set down and will be invited to fill in a standard report form on the state of the case . |
| 29 | I 'm beginning to build up a vague picture of this man . |
| 30 | The start of the game , with Scotland camped in Malta 's half , appeared to imply that the night would be spent wearing down a Maltese defence which used Buttigieg as a sweeper behind four other bodies . |