Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker . |
| 2 | And yet few voters appear to be heeding the dire warnings from the conservationists … the party is trailing in the polls at around two per cent . |
| 3 | Combined anti-terrorist units of troops , gendarmes and police officers were reported to be patrolling the main towns . |
| 4 | If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches . |
| 5 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 6 | The behaviour of the crowds — vulgar , noisy and violent — immediately excited considerable apprehension , and the excesses of the transfer market and professionalism were thought to be ruining the native traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship . |
| 7 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 8 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 9 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 10 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 11 | Well certainly not in the period during which we 're going to be discussing the various submissions , er un un at the E I P , now Mr Heselton , erm in a way your comments yesterday would probably be taken that Selby could cope , or would be prepared to cope , even with additional development , now you better sa tell me whether that 's true or false , and I 'm thinking particularly of that element of Greater Sel , of Selby which is in Greater York . |
| 12 | There is an inexorable logic about McCabe 's observation of the process by which the child Francie 's engaging , restless , questioning personality is gradually mutated by a brutalising absence of love or understanding or any sort of kindness , into that of a deranged adult murderer , behind whose insane and degraded behaviour , are still to be seen the vestigial lineaments of an injured child . |
| 13 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 14 | Lenders in general often appeared to be financing the tempting rates offered to first-time buyers at the expense of existing borrowers . |
| 15 | Appears to be influencing the human rats and roaches down there not to notice it . |
| 16 | These , then , were some of Orkney 's councillors who were n't afraid to speak out , who were glad to be seen to be supporting the stricken families . |
| 17 | Christie believes his buddy is in the sort of shape to be crowned the overall men 's Grand Prix champion at Crystal Palace next Friday and collect the £87,000 that goes with the title . |
| 18 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 19 | ‘ In the past , waters from abandoned mines have been managed because they had to be to keep the other mines open , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Here were to be found the flying schools , the workshops and the hangars of Bristol , Deperdussin , A V Roe , Sopwith , Martinsyde and Vickers . |
| 21 | From among this small group of people were to be founded the only Iranians who remained with the Shah and Queen in the months to come . |
| 22 | However , together , these pavements are too few and too poorly recorded to be considered the diagnostic mosaics of this group . |
| 23 | Men like Prior , Gilmour , Pym , Walker , and perhaps Heseltine seemed to be challenging the very premisses of monetarism . |
| 24 | This ejected fine dust and ash particles into the atmosphere , which are believed to be accelerating the chemical reactions by which ozone is destroyed by chlorine compounds . |
| 25 | The series , while mentioning these historical facts , appears to be ignoring the obvious questions they raise , possibly relying on the grand sweep . |
| 26 | If the M&A network is to be used the agreed procedures set out in the handbook should be observed . |
| 27 | The only viable tactic seemed to be to surround the tribal hosts , forcing them to give hostages and cattle in exchange for leniency . |
| 28 | But they argue that until enough new units have been funded , provided , and shown to be working the traditional hospitals are better than nothing . |
| 29 | One vicar said there was no longer provision in the Church of England liturgy for such a service ; the blessing was regarded as the remains of a pre-Christian ritual , and with modern maps it was no longer necessary for the people to be shown the physical boundaries . |