Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caused much grumbling and many heads were knocked together just to remind everybody who was boss . |
| 2 | Unless the United Nations is prepared actually physically to keep the peace , the federal forces have every incentive to maintain military operations against Croatia . |
| 3 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 4 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 5 | My reading of Article 5 of the treaty is that nuclear weapons are defined broadly enough to cover missile warheads , bombs , depth charges , torpedoes or mines , in whatever form , whether armed or not . |
| 6 | Examinations are designed very largely to secure ease of marking since skilled markers are limited , and to ensure that , as far as possible , justice is seen to be one and that instances ( and accusations ) of nepotism or corruption are kept to a minimum . |
| 7 | All you have to do is to understand the right habit or growing style of the crops and time your sowings and plantings with that in mind , ensuring that soil fertility levels are kept high enough to support the extra output . |
| 8 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |
| 9 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 10 | Internationally it entered into a de facto cartel agreement with Canada , whereby export prices were kept low enough to discourage new producers . |
| 11 | Smells are employed most widely to find food , but they also help many animals and plants to avoid being eaten . |
| 12 | Fires are lit once again to subdue and intimidate the elephants . |