Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapters 2 and 3 are designed to help you on both counts . |
| 2 | Aerial spraying of the fungicide , which goes under the trade name of " Ronilan " , is now completely outlawed and farmers are forbidden to use it on any crop which is not peeled or shelled . |
| 3 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 5 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 6 | We 're going to push them on this one , Clarac . |
| 7 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 8 | ‘ And now you 're going to kill me with that ? |
| 9 | Right , we 're going to hold you to this . |
| 10 | Now we 're going to share it with all of you . ’ |
| 11 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Have you come here to tell me that you 're going to fight me after all , now that Janice is no longer around ? ’ |
| 13 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |
| 14 | You 're trying to blind us with all your scientific talk , so that we do n't see what you 're getting at , and leave you alone till it 's too late … ’ ‘ … you 're a wicked , evil man , like that other woman said , flying in the face of Nature and God … ’ ‘ … and what about Einstein ? |
| 15 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 16 | It is not a difficult object , though telescopes are needed to show it at all well . |
| 17 | The Mercedes which had been promised to take them to All Saints ' Church , Deganwy , for the wedding on Saturday was sold . |
| 18 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 19 | ‘ The months ahead are going to be hard , for during them I am going to put you through much learning and discipline , ’ said Minch speaking in a strong and determined way . |
| 20 | Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such . |
| 21 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 22 | Aesthetics is a topic I have previously discussed only with my cosmetic dentist , Mrs McGilchrist ( as in " the aesthetics are going to cost you on this one " ) , and with the odd deluded lighting-cameraman who might have his views about the aesthetics of a Bulky Bar dissolve , a Rumpburger close-up , a Zaparama zoom . |
| 23 | The vision of the vain , silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way . |
| 24 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 25 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 26 | By a summons dated 10 April 1992 the local authority sought orders against W. and her aunt , who shared with the local authority parental responsibility for her , that leave be given to move her to such establishment as the Official Solicitor might approve and to give her medical treatment without her consent . |
| 27 | Something must be done to free her from this grip . |
| 28 | Weber 's approach to inequality was to present a range of descriptive categories that could be used to describe it in any given society . |
| 29 | These general problem-solving strategies can be used to help you through many of life 's problems . |
| 30 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |