Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confusion of private and personal property as the subject of criticism has led most people , who for good reason wish to defend property with which they are intimately associated also to defend institutions which may result in their alienation from such property . |
| 2 | Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms . |
| 3 | They are not designed basically to protect animals and , as has already been mentioned , they depend a great deal upon the use of the animal . |
| 4 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 5 | The police are thus empowered arbitrarily to limit numbers and to form cordons to allow lorries and workers through to work . |
| 6 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 7 | As most such requests are refused , when they are set up they are usually convened only to discuss matters of specific interest , such as the textile industry or the state of the French language . |
| 8 | The account executive will , usually , take the chair in meetings at the agency , and will be responsible for producing the minutes of every meeting — these may be called ‘ call reports ’ or ‘ contact reports ’ , and are usually designed solely to record decisions and list action to be performed by either the agency or the client . |
| 9 | It is interesting that despite this some writers are still prepared nevertheless to claim Foucault as a Marxist — perhaps less an indication of his Marxism than of his discursive power and the lack of alternatives within Marxism today . |
| 10 | Emissions from satellite ground stations into the geostationary orbit are strictly regulated internationally to avoid interference to adjacently located satellites , and most carrier types used will in practice have an effective radiated power level of between 50 and 90 dbW . |
| 11 | On the next waking they are then encouraged again to inhibit urination if they can . |
| 12 | Development costs could be reduced by expanding these existing nuclear sites which are currently used primarily to produce fuel for military purposes . |