Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now uranium erm is , is er a non-renewable resource like oi oil and coal and gas but there 's an awful lot of it in the world and this is erm the reserves of the energy they can give are compared to the remaining reserves of coal or and er gas , you can see it 's one of the largest energy resources on on earth . |
| 2 | Neither Whitehall , nor government nor this county council , nor the children we 're talking about would welcome being used as a political football by Mr . |
| 3 | Now what we would do is put into a flexible trust , okay ? |
| 4 | And so the catechist who talks but does not relate , who explains but does not feel is faced with a handicapped person like the person described by St. Augustine in his First Catechetical Instruction . |
| 5 | Erm what place erm does the convenor see being made in the legal processes to make available to estranged couples the opportunity for erm voluntary conciliation between the parties ? |
| 6 | It is a recognized component of rituals of healing we can still see being practised by the wise men , witch doctors and shamans in ‘ primitive ’ societies and sometimes in the spiritual healing work of evangelical preachers . |
| 7 | She would want another half later , but she did n't like being faced with a full pint all at once . |
| 8 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 9 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 10 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 11 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 12 | But I do remember being impressed by the various fathers who came home on leave and the colourful uniforms they wore , more especially those who wore the " maternity jacket " of the Royal Flying corps . |
| 13 | She could clearly remember the first day that Scott had shown her around , could remember being impressed by the overwhelming glamour of it all . |
| 14 | Would you mind being introduced to the Aged now ? |
| 15 | Quite how individual that voice could become is underlined in the surest possible way in his later Corelli Variations Op. 42 of 1931 : the monumental is the very stuff of which they are made . |
| 16 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 17 | Remember to have a neighbour on call so that the unit may be switched off should a hosepipe ban be imposed by the local water authority . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher , in effect , did not anticipate being linked to the monetary system of an increasingly interventionist Europe in her political lifetime . |
| 19 | But it remains difficult to see how the paper tiger can avoid being shredded over the next two or three years . |
| 20 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 21 | Another apparent exception to the general rule that ignorance of the plaintiff 's rights does not excuse was recognised by the Privy Council in Maynegrain Pty . |
| 22 | To set the problem in more concrete terms , we must seek an answer to the question as to why make and have are followed by the bare infinitive , while cause , occasion , get and all the other causatives are construed with to infinitives . |
| 23 | Clearly without the deprivation payments some good inner city practices would have been bankrupted by the new contract . |
| 24 | That is to say neither do I believe , in the terms of classical Christology , that Jesus of Nazareth could have had , as well as his human nature , a divine nature ; nor do I believe that he could have been raised from the dead , so acquiring uniqueness through God 's act of raising him . |
| 25 | That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be . |
| 26 | By using individual company case-studies and macro-economic evidence , this research will provide some answers to the questions of why these alternatives failed , and whether productivity could have been raised by a general adoption of different incentive and reward structures in industry . |
| 27 | It may even have been increased by the new Article 92 , in spite of the continuing ban on discrimination on the basis of nationality . |
| 28 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 29 | It is very important that credit is given for any UK tax which may have been borne by an overseas trust . |
| 30 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |