Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [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 | Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself . |
| 3 | The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 6 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 7 | Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy . |
| 8 | The two local favourites , Claire Waddell , who currently leads the Grand Prix , and Julie Nicol are expected to make up the semi-final line-up . |
| 9 | They are itching to hold up the red card to an establishment that does n't believe that ex-pros have the right pedigree to control top matches . |
| 10 | As the mechanics , now dubbed dismantlers , get to work their eyes are primed to search out every tiny component which could be used again or recycled into something else . |
| 11 | There 's a bloody riot going on , the town is crammed with nigs , er blacks , and they are looking to sort out the Young Conservatives . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Two miners had been instructed to bring down an unsafe part of the roof which presented a danger to the miners . |
| 14 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 15 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 16 | In fact , we 've stolen some nuclear weapons and we 're going to tell the government we 're going to blow up the whole country unless they let us play Wembley . ’ |
| 17 | If you do n't tell them that you 're going to pick up a thirty five percent deposit cheque . |
| 18 | If you 're going to keep up the same pattern of commitments the answer is that the army is already stretched as it clan be and so are the other two services and this is putting a terrific strain on the individual servicemen and their families . |
| 19 | If you 're planning to set up a second or third tank , and would like a helping hand when you do , please get in touch . |
| 20 | You are requested to set out the different theories of the purposes of criminal punishment ( general and particular deterrence , incapacitation , reformation , ethical retribution ) and to consider whether any of these theories can be used to support the conviction in R . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | The design we are going to talk about is a DIY design in that , apart from a 555 timer and 4001 NOR gate chip , discretes are used to carry out the various circuit operations and the system is capable of being modified for those who like a starting point and then like to experiment . |
| 23 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Another problem which electric fish have circumvented is that very sensitive receptors are needed to pick up the weak signals of other fish , and such receptors would be swamped by the fish 's own field . |
| 27 | You are needed to cheer up a young 21-year-old male . |
| 28 | The 16 tonne lorry depositing a load is one of the 7,500 that are needed to make up the specified contours . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There were tracks in the cooled fat where chunks of bread had been used to mop up the tasty juices of the meal . |