Example sentences of "to be [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in this instance you do the company a disservice , since the harmoniser patches you refer to are intended to work this way . |
| 2 | They seemed to be trying to outstare each other . |
| 3 | But John said , when she 's stupid enough to be trying to sell that house and who 'd buy that thing , stuck up the end of that road ? |
| 4 | ‘ My primary task is going to be trying to make that work , improve it and lift the level in various countries . |
| 5 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
| 6 | Participatory democracy does need to be strengthened to promote active citizenship at local and national levels . |
| 7 | There can be no serious defensible pedigrees here ( even if we could decide what characteristics had to be inherited to ensure pure descent ) . |
| 8 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 9 | The persistently high inflation experienced in the United Kingdom in the 1970s highlighted the need for company accounts to be adjusted to reflect this factor . |
| 10 | The system uses well and log data to provide on-the-spot reservoir analysis , enabling drilling to be adjusted to maximise well productivity . |
| 11 | You said , ‘ let's pretend to be engaged to tease big brother ’ , and you made it somehow seem as if it was a sudden whim . |
| 12 | erm How does one in any case fine a motorist who is n't standing by his car or sitting in it ? erm I would , if the question is shall we try it , if that is implied , I would say it 's worth trying in a very moderate way , it may require the police and the police representatives so to speak , the wardens if they 're going to be empowered to do this kind of thing , I think it 's going to force them to become very , very diplomatic and civilized in the way they handle it , but we of course too will have to learn to respond in a civilized manner . |
| 13 | Disciplines have to be undertaken to take special care with potentially flammable items and those which may be chemically/physically unstable when moved from store . |
| 14 | Debt charges ( principal and interest ) still have to be included in budget revenue expenses and therefore , in the end , local taxes have to be raised to finance these debt charges . |
| 15 | Decoration work in the house still had to be done and about £2,000 still had to be raised to meet annual running costs . |
| 16 | Mozart could not begin composing the arias to his opera before reaching Milan because they had to be written to suit each singer 's voice . |
| 17 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 18 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 19 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |
| 20 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with each of the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 21 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 22 | The MPRP leader , President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , stated afterwards that efforts had now to be made to promote further democratization and to overcome the current economic crisis . |
| 23 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 24 | ‘ Liverpool had also bought Mark Wright and when a club has spent more than £5m they are bound to be looking to recoup some money . |
| 25 | Simon , a manager who , at 39 , is the oldest person questioned , says : ‘ The idea that people will think it is in some way impressive to be seen drinking low-alcohol muck is obvious nonsense . ’ |
| 26 | Where the desire of governments to avoid disruption conflicts with other priorities , such as the need to be seen to control public sector pay or working practices , intervention may well be secretive . |
| 27 | For used money to be viable it has to be seen to make new money . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard Co is not a company to rush into something just because it is the fashion , but with ICL Plc firmly in the Sparc camp , Groupe Bull SA committed to IBM Corp 's Power RISC and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's allegiance to the Alpha RISC bought dearly by Digital Equipment Corp — with Hewlett an unsuccessful contender in both the last two cases , the company may well be beginning to think that persuading Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG of the virtues of the Precision Architecture RISC is a high priority if it is to be seen to have equal standing with its three closest rivals in Europe . |
| 29 | The Government wishes to be seen to show special concern about these offences and their victims . |
| 30 | ( For Olga 's thoughts on what needs to be done to improve British tennis , see next months Tennis World . ) |