Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 2 | The grounds for doubt are very varied but there are now several cases of chimpanzees , and at least one gorilla , who have first been taught to communicate with their human mentors in an apparently rational way by means of stereotyped signs invented by their teachers and have then gone on to use these signs grammatically , generating novel sentences as if the signs formed a genuine human language . |
| 3 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 4 | British Rail , SNCF and SNCB ( Société Nationale de Chemins de Fers Belges ) are cooperating in the design of a special fleet of high speed trains for use on the London-Brussels-Paris lines , and an international consortium of companies has been formed to tender for their detailed design and construction . |
| 5 | You would think , therefore , that it would pay agencies to study assiduously not only the editorial content of the pages which are designed to appeal to their potential customers , but also the verbal and visual techniques employed to attract and keep them . |
| 6 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 7 | Now the uncertainty has been lifted , hundreds of hospitals will seek self-governing status while more family doctors are expected to opt for their own budgets — although Mr Major reaffirmed yesterday that he would continue to cherish and build up the NHS . |
| 8 | Exactly how zoos are expected to dispose of their lar gibbons is not clear , and it is this which concerns the International Primate Protection League ( IPPL ) . |
| 9 | In both the UK and the US over 40 per cent of workers are expected to stay with their first employer for over 20 years ( Collier and Knight 1985 p.21 ) . |
| 10 | There was a cash adjustment in Coventry 's favour and both players are expected to play for their new clubs tonight . |
| 11 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 12 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
| 13 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 14 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 15 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |
| 16 | And the command is in four parts erm and you 're expected to write in what those four parts are . |
| 17 | Perhaps that 's what happens when your career is temporarily on hold and you 're compelled to return to your original stalwarts . |
| 18 | They 're left to think about it all the time |
| 19 | Most of the properties of an organism that we are equipped to see with our naked eyes are so-called ‘ emergent properties ’ . |
| 20 | The Government 's examination advisers have already been told to see to it that marking is stricter next year . |
| 21 | Cornwall tells him , ‘ the revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father are not fit for your beholding ’ ( III.vii.6ff. ) ) , he comes into the final stage of his career , moving from subject to object , first of Goneril 's love , then of Regan 's . |
| 22 | These requirements are bound to conflict on your limited acres , particularly in spring and early summer when a large proportion of your land is laid up for hay or in arable crops . |
| 23 | However , you are bound to discover for yourself many species that I have not had space to describe , as it is always interesting to experiment for yourself . |
| 24 | Jones is hoping for an offer of compensation from the local authority and must now look forward with added enthusiasm to 1991 , when Giants are scheduled to move into their own purpose-built , multi-sport arena . |
| 25 | By this stage the fielding captain has been compelled to resort to his second and third string bowlers , keeping his main strike men back to stem the batting slog over the last 10 overs . |
| 26 | Yet with base rates down by three percentage points to 7% since sterling 's exit from the ERM , and a further reduction to 6% likely in the New Year , mortgage rates are set to fall to their lowest level for 25 years . |
| 27 | The all powerful , but ageing New Zealander John Campbell , never one to turn down a pay day , will be favoured to improve on his 2:17:22 winning time from last year , that is if he shows up . |
| 28 | If the money can clearly be proven to belong to you all , and to be your only means of support , it can not be let out of the family , casually , at the whim of one member . |
| 29 | Whitlock had to be reminded to clip on his compulsory dosemeter badge . |
| 30 | And yet will not be entreated to part with your sensual pleasures for your own salvation ? ’ |