Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While money has been used to reward them the intrinsic motivation of working in a harmonious team has been eliminated in many jobs ; for example , checkout operators in a supermarket , process workers in a manufacturing plant . |
| 2 | At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price . |
| 3 | This game can be repeated to make it the best of five . |
| 4 | I have been asked to send you the following extract from the Minutes of the Computing Sub-Group meeting held 24 March 1993 . |
| 5 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 6 | It was decided to teach him the final lesson , which would also warn off other émigrés who thought that they were secure in the West and could say what they liked about Ceauşescu . |
| 7 | Her alarmed personal physician Dr Michael Roth was forced to give her the stark warning when she refused to rest up completely . |
| 8 | And eventually Doyle was forced to tell him the whole story . |
| 9 | He was forced to tell her the heartbreaking news that : ‘ Mummy is n't coming back . ’ |