Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 2 | Staff at Cardiff-based Rimer-Alco volunteered to work over the bank holiday to prepare special oxygen machines to be flown out next week . |
| 3 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 4 | Bernhard Langer , who has steered clear of New Orleans , is keeping his cards close to his chest , while the best the rest can hope for is a high enough finish in order to be invited back next year . |
| 5 | Only if it is ‘ blown ’ , for example on a tax-cut-financed consumer boom , can the government be said to be piling up financial trouble for future governments . |
| 6 | They seem to be buying up half Europe … ’ |
| 7 | I , you know , usually for the hundred tonight I meant to be served up one packet and that means Wednesday buying |
| 8 | I am not a councillor nor politician whose job ought to be sorting out this dilemma . |
| 9 | By the time Posi had established the ship at the specified position , Mala seemed to be thinking along similar lines . |
| 10 | The contract for the £4.5m. worth of repairs is due to be given out this month and be completed by the winter of 1993/4 . |
| 11 | When she spoke to Guitarist back in 1988 , Jennifer described how landing the job as guitar player on one of the largest tours ever was a dream come true ; how did it feel to be asked back this time ? |
| 12 | — The athlete to be asked out one time more . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't you think he 's rather young to be farmed out all day and every day ? ’ |
| 14 | We had , we had to conservative speakers so far , erm , and Councillor Brock seem to me , in a sense to be summing up that phrase about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing , because there was the the the es essential arithmetical calculation about percentages , and savings . |
| 15 | Er if my choice , I 'd like to be in the docks , but things can not ha happen that way , we 've got a lot o , a lot of the yuppies moving in that area , and that seems to be taking over that area so no chance of a football stadium there . |
| 16 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 17 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 18 | I did n't have to think ‘ Well , if I put that dress on I 'll only get it dirty because the baby will be sick over me ’ — to be dressed up all day and feel you can be clean and only have nice jobs to do and always be with people … |
| 19 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 20 | Once the unit is plugged in , the computer does not need to be switched off each time the SRAM is inserted or removed since switch S1 controls all the necessary isolation . |
| 21 | ‘ The horses do n't need to be lined up military fashion waiting for the cavalry charge , ’ added Mr Green , who has seen every National live since 1946 . |
| 22 | Because Sheriff Hamilton is a floating sheriff , the case had to be put back several times to allow him to pass sentence when he was next at Hamilton . |
| 23 | Patients , to Aline , were fascinating mental problems to be picked up each time one walked on duty and put down directly one walked out of the ward . |
| 24 | The white man 's burden had to be carried on strong backs . |
| 25 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 26 | Because of the hammering the great Bugattis and the like gave Brooklands during the summer months , extensive repairs had to be carried out each winter . |
| 27 | THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed . |
| 28 | The dominance reduction programme was set for about a four week period , although many of the suggestion do have to be carried out longer term — or even permanently — for best results with pairs of fighting male dogs . |
| 29 | A force of 20 armed OMON troops entered the Vilnius central telephone exchange on June 26 , claiming to be carrying out presidential orders in searching for illegal weapons and found a pistol , ammunition and explosives . |
| 30 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine is believed to be sounding out potential US support for the strategy . |