Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been told once more to mind my own business . |
| 3 | These are useful if they have been constructed flexibly enough to allow for complex unusual facilities to be used if required , and thus do not negate their advantage by imposing restrictions on the designers and programmers , Structure should be built in from the beginning . |
| 4 | When the four remaining parts of the lower dome have been built high enough to form a complete circle within the walls of the square , this circle provides the basis for supporting the actual dome . |
| 5 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 6 | These have been dug out easily to make docks , with lock gates which retain the depth of water when the tide is low . |
| 7 | Bomb-grade plutonium and uranium have been kept securely enough to persuade most potential proliferators that , if they want a bomb , they will have to make their own nuclear material , not just steal or buy it . |
| 8 | For several years we have been leaning over backwards to avoid the use of the forbidden word , instructing the population at large that it is more dead than the dodo and deleting it from our titles with abandon . |
| 9 | The overwhelming climate of secrecy has long been encouraged and supported by the Official Secrets Acts 1911–1920 which have been used not simply to prevent disclosure of security information but to prevent the disclosure of all information which governments have chosen not to disclose . |
| 10 | They have been used not only to propagate the virtues of tightly-centralized administration , but also to emphasize the dominance of Hindi . |
| 11 | Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries . |
| 12 | Statements by officials , including some made by ministers in Parliament , have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs . |
| 13 | Because of the long-term nature of the business ( many funds run for five years or more ) , there are comparatively few firms that have been going long enough to supply relevant data . |
| 14 | The nuts and bolts of the deal have been put together cleverly to comply with the 1982 Cable Act and with the specific terms of the 1984 consent decree from Judge Harold Greene that set up the Baby Bells . |