Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 2 | What Alexander had decided to do was to send the British Resident Minister , who had been intimately involved in the crisis , up to Venezia Giulia to brief the senior army commanders on every aspect of the delicate political situation which surrounded it . |
| 3 | Now what you 've got to do is use the correct words and phrases and these are finally |
| 4 | This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission 's social charter , rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit . |
| 5 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |