Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So instead , they 're using them to create an exclusive new range of classic clothes . |
| 2 | ‘ Then , bizarrely , we had a very good November and , although we 've not seen the figures yet , we 're expecting them to show a good December . ’ |
| 3 | Now , however , the Sun in Aries , at odds with your ruling planet Uranus , as well as Saturn and Neptune in Capricorn , the most sensitive area of your solar chart , signifies that intrigue and intimidation are forcing you to make a complete break from the past . |
| 4 | I am expecting you to do the same . ’ |
| 5 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 6 | I am already aware that I am beginning myself to use the acceptable university jargon that saturates the material that is presented within these diploma courses . |
| 7 | It will be an interim attempt to be seen to be doing something to replace the discredited poll tax . |
| 8 | It must be killing him to have the Old Man expecting him to play barman to me ! |
| 9 | ‘ When I walked into the studio Blixa had his body miked up and they were punching him to get a bass drum beat . |
| 10 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 11 | Supposing that I were to ask you to recommend a good , modern book to read , and I do n't mean good in the sense of morally uplifting , but perhaps more in the sense of exciting or interesting reading . |
| 12 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 13 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 14 | The company is using its global broadband network to link the services and is using them to launch a Global Managed Data Service which will compete with the likes of British Telecommunications Plc 's Global Network Service and Infonet . |
| 15 | It 's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay forever in the closet . |
| 16 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 17 | The aim is to enable them to lead an independent life . |
| 18 | At this time of year , when everyone is pledging themselves to improve the sorry lot we call our lives , I have decided to give up lying . |
| 19 | If it is to put pressure on broadminded intellectuals to persuade their leaders to change their policies , it is having the opposite effect , and is causing them to support the nationalist government . |
| 20 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 21 | And finally : ‘ Do n't merely talk , like some gasbags do , about shedding the last drop of your blood for your country — the difficulty with them , when the time comes , is getting them to shed the FIRST drop of their blood . ’ |
| 22 | The Commission is doing nothing to simplify a complex situation . |
| 23 | This is to invite you to join a new Special Interest Group ( SIG ) on Co-operating Knowledge-Based Systems ( CKBS ) , as proposed at the international working conference on CKBS , held at the University of Keele on the 3rd–5th October 1990 . |
| 24 | But to insist that women somehow amputate their love and compassion is to ask them to destroy the very thing which in my view favourably distinguishes us from men . |
| 25 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 26 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 27 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 28 | He was sending her to face a hostile male and when everything was clearly laid down she was to spy on him — a thing she had refused so loudly . |
| 29 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 30 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |