Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The college has been great offering to find a school for the children , and after school I will be encouraging them to join in the dance and fitness classes for children at the college . ’ |
| 2 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 3 | In evolution , structures are conservative because changes must be made one step at a time , each step being an improvement on the preceding one . |
| 4 | On the sovereignty issue Ordóñez declared that " the colony of Gibraltar belongs to the past " , while Hurd reiterated that nothing could be done which went against the will of the Gibraltarians . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll be wanting us to stand round the piano singing hymns next , ’ said his mother unfairly , and forestalled his indignant riposte by replacing the receiver . |
| 6 | The Revenue said questions had been raised about whether these assets qualified for deferral if all other conditions were met and , while it could be argued they lie outside the scope of the provisions , ‘ the better view was that they are within them ’ . |
| 7 | I know but we ca n't do , we ca n't do anything apart from be told what to do by the teachers . |
| 8 | ‘ What a set-up for a young lass when her father must n't be told she goes to a dance , ’ said Lizzie , which brought forth from Peggy the sharp and quizzical retort , ‘ Remember , Mam , when I was fifteen I was n't allowed out at all after six o'clock unless you were with me . ’ |
| 9 | Dorothy L. must be describing them to put over the dramatic picture of the abandoned easel , but I 'll take all that for granted . " |
| 10 | ‘ My sister Thérèse , ’ he went on , pointing towards the young dark-haired woman who seemed to be compiling what looked like a list of something or other . |
| 11 | As a result of the impact of research of this kind a further third strand could be detected which devolved upon the investigation of earth hazards and of physical geography from a socioeconomic-viewpoint . |
| 12 | Significantly , he added : ‘ If the answer is no , I 'll be letting them know by the end of this month . ’ |
| 13 | Minnis decided to do something for others who might similarly be afflicted which resulted in the Kenilworth Club and the PGL contributing annually to a fund . |
| 14 | In 1978 , he told five youths who tied up a 14-year-old boy as a target for their catapults : ‘ What is the best sentence for you really would be to have you tied to a tree and everybody throw stones at you . |
| 15 | William 's best plan now would be to get himself established in a job , save up a bit of money , then get married and move into his own little house . |
| 16 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 17 | Yet the importance attached to this scheme of distributive justice by advocates of choice theory encourages them to ignore the contradiction which we noticed above between the liberal ideal of individual autonomy and the moral paternalism of the principle that promises ought to be kept which lies at the heart of their theory of contract . |
| 18 | I seemed to be watching myself acting in a film . |
| 19 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 20 | With people who 'd be have nothing to do with the music business or just you know it 's just the social er the social life you know . |
| 21 | The House of Lords found that the legislation only allowed terms to be attached which related to the use of the site and not to the types of contract the site owner could make with the caravan owners . |