Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [verb] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 2 | All that the king-duke had to do was to legislate in the same way — to try to anticipate French edicts , or to follow them immediately with his own . |
| 3 | Whether the right to review the rent and the right to determine are contained in the same subclause of the lease ( Al Saloom v Shirley James Travel Service Ltd ( 1981 ) 42 P & CR 181 ) or in different subclauses ( Legal & General Assurance ( Pension Management ) Ltd v Cheshire CC ( 1983 ) 265 EG 781 ) makes no difference . |
| 4 | The rate of fire decay behind the flame front depends to a large extent on fire loading , the physical state and thermal capacity of the fuel and does not appear to have been studied in the same depth . |
| 5 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 6 | The Committee of Senior Officials ( CSO ) of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , meeting in Prague on Nov. 5-6 , made public a specially commissioned report recommending the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes alleged to have been committed in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina . |