Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MEMBERS of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg , the Welsh Language Society , say are set to break into Government and Conservative Party offices as part of their campaign for an independent education system in Wales . |
| 2 | I really wanted to go to ‘ Ps + Gs ’ at Easter for a change , plus I 've been asked to help with communion in the evening . |
| 3 | I 've been meaning to get in touch , not least to congratulate you on your new post . |
| 4 | we 've been told to prepare for frost tonight |
| 5 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 6 | I 've been having to deal with electricity since the word go and I 've tried to use it in a musically creative and responsible way . |
| 7 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 8 | How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts ? |
| 9 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 10 | Chesapeake Bay blue crabs , among nature 's hardiest creatures , have been observed dancing with death along the bottom ; they hover just above the anoxic zone , dart down to forage along the bottom , then come up for ‘ air ’ to the oxygenated mid-depths . |
| 11 | Further , prolonged rain storms on Earth have been observed to occur in line with certain alignments of the moon , and perhaps of other objects in the solar system . |
| 12 | The extent to which these have been achieved varies from authority to authority but , in some , considerable progress has been made towards integration . |
| 13 | In the Midlands a Vauxhall midi van and an electronic fuel injection transit have been converted to run on gas for testing and as demonstration vehicles . |
| 14 | There are number of different ways in which more naturalistic studies have been conducted ranging from laboratory studies using slides and films to field studies which have recorded people 's memories for staged or naturally occurring arousing events . |
| 15 | Bottlenose and hump-backed dolphins have been seen chasing off shark predators and even killing them , but packs of killer whales can encircle and trap a school of dolphins with a curtain of sound , before selecting a few hapless victims . |
| 16 | But the ways in which we have been asked to look at consumer credit use are hardly relevant to TV rental . |
| 17 | are , are out , are out now , in , in relation to consultation and user groups and their re or representative organizations , have been asked to comment in relation to the whole process before we go , we get to Panel and P and R er , so that we get , and then full Council , so we will get some indication , and twenty six particularly , so that , maybe those members in the last er , er , Council do realize they might have got , we might have got our fingers burnt in relation to this particular issue . |
| 18 | Attempts have been made to improve upon keyboard communication with the computer . |
| 19 | The walks have been arranged to cater for all age groups , with a few designed for those with limited walking ability , and some have been planned to link with bus routes . |
| 20 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 21 | However , coastal environments have been classified according to wave energy by Davies ( 1973 ) and this can assist a more meaningful correlation between wave type and coastal morphology . |
| 22 | The Department of Transport says matrix signals have been updated to warn of fog but overhead lighting on motorways wo n't necessarily help . |
| 23 | It is for these reasons that sedimentologists have been forced to work to death the few modern examples they have ( such as the poor old Bahamas Ranks ) for analogies with ancient sedimentation . |
| 24 | Is the Prime Minister satisfied that sufficient steps have been taken to deal with terrorism ? |
| 25 | Members of all three of the large families of cell adhesion molecules — the cadherins , integrins , and immunoglobulin-like superfamily — have been shown to participate in signalling . |
| 26 | DNA distribution patterns analysed by cytophotometry , however , have been shown to relate to survival in patients from Japan . |
| 27 | H pylori infection and seropositivity have been shown to increase with age , although the immunological responses , in general , may be reduced in the elderly . |
| 28 | Other growth factors have been shown to bind to matrix components and include platelet derived growth factor ( PDGF ) , interferon-γ ( INFγ ) , acidic fibroblast growth factor ( aFGF ) , and granulocyte colony stimulating factor ( GM-CSF ) . |
| 29 | Nucleocapsid protein from MoMuLV , AMV and rous sarcoma virus have been shown to bind to DNA as well as to RNA and tRNA ( 12 , 14–16 ) . |
| 30 | Indeed , low concentrations of ascorbate have been shown to protect against haemolysis of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient erythrocytes in vitro . |