Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] to be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , the scope of s2(2) is extensive in this respect : ( 2 ) A person who , not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment , in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid ( a ) threatens to bring any legal proceedings ; or ( b ) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so ; or ( c ) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so , shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ level 5 on the standard scale ] . |
| 3 | The glow is weak , and needs to be amplified 30,000 times to be visible . |
| 4 | Very irritable and wants to be left alone ; slightest motion causes pain , even turning the head ; dry lips and copious thirst for cold water . |
| 5 | Heroin is still er quite available in Oxfordshire , and tends to be injected more than smoked or sniffed , so that 's another area for concern . |
| 6 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |
| 7 | One such approach in particular , the case discussion model ( cf Daines 1981 , Hanko 1985/7 ) , has met with considerable interest , and continues to be found helpful by primary and secondary teachers of all lengths of career experience as they work with their consultant supporters in clearly defined ways . |
| 8 | All shafts , levels , adits , watercourses and works to be kept open or upstanding for present or future working , and to yield up these at the end of the term , with the bottoms clear of all dross and rubbish ; and the drifts , cross-cuts , sumps , pits , buddles , water-courses , dwelling houses , cabins , smelting houses , store houses , bingsteads , smithies , forges , workshops , etc . |
| 9 | The first is a recognition that much of what has been described above already exists , but needs to be made explicit and systematic ; and secondly , there must be a recognition that partial attempts to change are almost inevitably doomed to fail in that they will always be compromised and administered by the history and culture of many schools . |
| 10 | Gentle exercise is valuable too but needs to be taken most days in order to do us real good . |