Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me she makes all the rules and I 'm expected just to carry them out and still be responsible . |
| 2 | I 'm supposed just to answer you , that 's all is n't it . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 4 | ‘ I was sent here to get it . ’ |
| 5 | Talking about weights , I was taught always to use the minimum number of weights which enable the machine to knit correctly . |
| 6 | But , as fate would have it , my work has lain for years in a field where I was obliged strictly to keep my political convictions to myself . |
| 7 | I was determined never to give in . |
| 8 | I was asked particularly to notice the very simple but effective apparatus for raising the coaches . |
| 9 | As Holy Communion was by tradition the first food and drink of the day , the tea left a feeling of guilt for I was told never to tell anyone although I expect it was a common practice amongst lady communicants . |
| 10 | Adams also claimed that top points scorer Tony Hand was ‘ gooned ’ and added : ‘ Someone was put there to take him out . ’ |
| 11 | Information in the Bulletin comes from a wide range of publications which are scanned daily to keep readers up-to-date . |
| 12 | It is usually formed from lightweight prefabricated sections which are locked together to form scaffolding of the desired length and height on which boarding is placed for the working area . |
| 13 | Woodpeckers take advantage of the old trees which are left purposely to rot to provide good holes for tree-nesting birds — for rotten wood harbours a bountiful supply of beetles . |
| 14 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 15 | Bad guys ( factors which are thought possibly to increase risk of coronary heart disease ) |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman has obviously followed the Government 's proposals , which are designed carefully to consult local people and to find out whether we can create local authorities that reflect a genuine sense of local community . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the company management said later : ‘ Management at the Timex plant in Dundee deplores the activities of protesters outside its plant , tactics which are designed only to intimidate the workers who are coming into the plant . ’ |
| 18 | The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students . |
| 19 | The lexical items marked by the informants can be seen as the linguistic realisations of elements in the readers ' constructed text-worlds , which are used isomorphically to perceive the coherence of the reading . |
| 20 | I promise the Hon. Gentleman that no trust hospitals will be created without those hospitals first agreeing to the totality of their obligations and without their being monitored thereafter to see that they fulfil those obligations . |
| 21 | These included two of the incidents which were believed effectively to have triggered the civil war , namely the assassination in February 1975 in Sidon of a prominent left-wing politician , Maarouf Saad , and , two months later , the attack by armed Phalangists on a bus carrying Palestinians through the Beirut suburb of Ain Rumaneh [ see p. 27287 ] . |
| 22 | The officials were conferring with allies at the United Nations before issuing a formal reaction to the new Iraqi military moves , which were revealed yesterday to include anti-aircraft missiles being taken into allied-protected territory in northern Iraq . |
| 23 | National Certificate modules replaced a system based on subjects , often externally examined , which were clustered together to give courses which had names indicating the area of study , for example the Scottish National Certificate in Business Studies . |
| 24 | In addition to the methods mentioned above , which were used specifically to evaluate the undergraduate information retrieval course , an attempt was made to carry out a long-term study on the use of the library with regard to reasons for use , materials used , success in carrying out literature searches etc . |
| 25 | The binary line originated with the creation of the polytechnics which were established primarily to provide vocationally oriented studies in higher education equal in status to that accorded academic studies . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 27 | In the simplest version of this concept the UK imported raw materials which , together with indigenous materials ( especially coal and iron ) , were transformed by British workers whose diet depended on imported staple foods ( especially cheap grain ) and who produced high quality and low cost manufactured goods which were sold abroad to pay , in part , for the primary imports . |
| 28 | What is more , it is probably utterly unfair to this particular study to oversimplify it in the way shown in figure 6.1 , which is intended solely to relate to the limited area studied . |
| 29 | ( T ) here are many cases where a man who has a ‘ right , ’ in the sense of a liberty or capacity of doing an act which is not unlawful , but which is calculated seriously to injure another , will be liable to a charge of blackmail if he demands money from that other as the price of abstaining . … |
| 30 | Our linguistic habits have preserved , as if in amber , an interpretation of the world which we no longer consciously accept , which is exploited here to suggest a link between our thought patterns and those of Neanderthal man . |