Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 2 | We are taught not to focus on the more difficult aspects of what we know about other people . |
| 3 | Staff are taught how to deal with the public both on the phone and in person . |
| 4 | Microwave background detectors overlap in wavelength with millimetre waves and radio , but are designed specifically to look at the all-sky background emitted by gas soon after the big bang . |
| 5 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 6 | They are expected suddenly to adapt to the modern world after a century of colonial domination and outside interference . |
| 7 | Even the humdrum tasks are varied enough to militate against a sense of monotony . |
| 8 | ABO — cancelled : For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
| 9 | ABO — cancelled For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
| 10 | For some reason , it has been decided not to proceed with the DC . |
| 11 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 12 | Sometimes the numbers are sufficient to precipitate Type I disease in calves 3-4 weeks after they are turned out to graze in the spring . |
| 13 | But Allan Lamb , who is at the centre of the ball-tampering row , has been hung out to dry by the game 's gutless rulers . |
| 14 | Staff at the Abingdon branch of the TSB in Stert Street , where Mr Reenan used to work , have been instructed not to comment on the affair , but with speculation that further revelations are likely to be published tomorrow there 'll be more pressure on Mr Reenan to speak . |
| 15 | They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense . |
| 16 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 17 | And Britain 's swim pin-up Sharon Davies added : ‘ We have all been told not to talk about the Chinese and why they have done so well here . ’ |
| 18 | She was given a parasol against the sun and when she had been shown how to recline in the litter , six dark-faced bearers lifted her up and began trotting barefoot through the city with guards running before and behind . |
| 19 | Both CD4 and CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes have , perhaps unexpectedly , been shown specifically to increase during a series of six immunizations of previously HIV-infected subjects . |
| 20 | If it was n't the Russians , it was the British who wanted to interfere ; so I said , I am going away to wait for the day when once again an Austrian can decide when an Austrian may conduct music in his own country . |
| 21 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 22 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 23 | For example , most people will not mind waiting a few extra minutes in a hospital waiting room if they know that the doctor has been called away to deal with an emergency . |
| 24 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 25 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |
| 26 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
| 27 | A team of British scientists have been called in to help save the city of Venice from flooding . |
| 28 | She had showered and put on a tracksuit , having been called down to help in the kitchen before getting into something more elegant . |
| 29 | His sister , he explained , had married a Tongan , and the couple now lived in Mainz : not perhaps the most attractive of men , he had been invited out to stay among the substantial ladies of the islands to see if he , too , could forge any links . |
| 30 | While volunteers could be relied upon to make life as comfortable for them as possible , there 's concern about whether the professional agencies are geared up to help with the deeper anxieties . |