Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that the present computer room will be used at least temporarily to house the central processing equipment . |
| 2 | The gutter is supported at frequent intervals on brackets which can be raised or lowered to determine its ‘ fall ’ , and gutters must run to a good fall and should be cleaned at least annually to free them of leaves and mud ; they must not sag between brackets . |
| 3 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 4 | The visitors were ahead after five minutes when Lee Sharpe volleyed home a centre from Denis Irwin , and Southampton were struggling from then on to get back into the match . |
| 5 | However , virtually all were designed at least partially to house people and jobs from the older urban cores . |
| 6 | Mr Li quickly adopted a more reformist tone — a change that is thought at least temporarily to have saved his career . |
| 7 | Martin Luther King is dragged in yet again to deliver his ‘ I Have A Dream ’ speech . |