Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am about to set up a mixed fish/invertebrate tank , and I would be very grateful if you could tell me more about Kalkwasser , which fishkeepers in the USA are using to dose their marine systems . |
| 2 | She encourages customers to play around with samples so they feel they are helping to design their own rooms . |
| 3 | On the pitch they are struggling to preserve their Premier Division status with the worse defensive record among the top clubs while boardroom battles continue to drive a wedge between club and supporters . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had a shoulder injury for the last three or four games and it 's the last thing you need when you are struggling to score your first goal . |
| 5 | We 're we are part of the that process and it 's it 's sometimes encouraging for us to remember that there are small denominations , small groups like us around the world who are struggling to make their Christian witness real in their particular context . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State will be aware that the social services departments of many local authorities are struggling to meet their financial commitments in implementation of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 7 | Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues . |
| 8 | Choose a product which has been formulated to meet your particular requirements . |
| 9 | They have not been permitted to show their true ability because of the malignant witchcraft of their rivals . |
| 10 | During term time , the princes are expected to alternate their two weekends home a term between Highgrove with Charles and Kensington Palace with Diana . |
| 11 | Students are expected to create their own notes : it is hard work and involves a craft skill as demanding as that required for oil paintings or pottery . |
| 12 | Even if the pound soars , they still have a trade and most other markets are expected to maintain their recent impetus until June-July . |
| 13 | After that , you are expected to pay your own contributions until you are 60 unless you remarry . |
| 14 | And students are expected to make their own responses to what is put in their way . |
| 15 | Drivers are expected to organise their own sponsorship , with WSR chipping in . |
| 16 | Las Palmas is a busy commercial harbour so the movement of small boats is largely ignored , and yachts entering or leaving are expected to find their own way through the traffic . |
| 17 | They are expected to find their own way into our education system . |
| 18 | If the expatriate and family are expected to find their own accommodation , information should be given on the types of properties available for rent , how much these are likely to cost together with information on whether they are furnished or unfurnished . |
| 19 | We are committed to maintain our clear vision of BP 's long-term business objective — as an integrated international hydrocarbons business , with a well balanced portfolio in regional terms and underpinned by technology . |
| 20 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 21 | Foreigners are seen to contaminate their precious homogeneity and disturb the peace . |
| 22 | I am writing to express our complete satisfaction with everything that he does . |
| 23 | I am writing to express my sincere thanks to the rescue services who , on Saturday , January 26 , rescued my injured partner Stuart Adam from Winter Corrie , Glen Clova . |
| 24 | I AM writing to express my sincere thanks to a gentleman who restored my faith in human nature . |
| 25 | Sir , — I am the General Secretary of The Bankruptcy Association of Great Britain and Ireland and I am writing to express my continuing concern over the catastrophic numbers of people going bankrupt in business — many of them businesses of long standing . |
| 26 | And the more that living material is boxed into discrete survival machines , the more will the cells of those survival machines concentrate their efforts on that special class of cells that are destined to ferry their shared genes through the bottleneck into the next generation . |
| 27 | Certain countries in our 1975–76 survey , Sierra Leone , Tanzania and Zambia , and others outside it such as Ethiopia and Somalia , are seeking to raise their minimum age of entry into primary schools . |
| 28 | Northern Counties East League SPENNYMOOR are looking to extend their unbeaten run when third placed Sutton Town visit the Brewery Field . |
| 29 | Chief executive Jim Greenwood said : ‘ The work can not be done in a close season , so we are looking to start it next February and have the new stand ready for August , 1994 . |
| 30 | Many of our students are absolute beginners who are looking to expand their artistic interests . |