Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victorian block of flats where Christine Mills lived had been painted a dark green a decade ago and the wood of the frames now showed through in parts , black and rotten . |
| 2 | It was an unhappy end to a great career , but Jackie 's decision to retire had been taken long before : in April . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |
| 4 | The first thing any retailer needs to do is let people know he is there ! |
| 5 | became just a kind of foreman , or perhaps a member of lower managerial supervisory staff … the employers appear to have been determined to take the important decisions themselves rather than leave the butty with a significant degree of independence , as the modernity and high level of mechanization of the new pits perhaps dictated . |
| 6 | However , although the overall price rise permitted has been fixed , this does not prevent BT from increasing different tariffs at different rates ( provided it does not engage in Predatory pricing ) . |
| 7 | A Brigade statement said : ‘ The decision to disband has been taken by the leadership and will prevent any members reforming under any other name . ’ |
| 8 | Investigators from the Mine Safety and Health Administration ( MSHA ) report that in many cases dust had been vacuumed or blown out of sampling devices prior to being sent to inspectors . |
| 9 | As in ‘ follow ’ mode , all the driver has to do is steer . |
| 10 | And , if you think about it , all that the would-be driver has done is to use his mind and his imagination to visualize all those things which could possibly go wrong and cause him to fail . |
| 11 | The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way , after all counsel involved had been consulted . |
| 12 | AN ART exhibition on lesbianism has created been condemned by a councillor as ‘ filth ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ We want to go up and Sunderland want to avoid being relegated . |
| 14 | Most CAD installations in the UK are turnkey units — so-called because they come complete and all the buyer has to do is turn the key and start learning . |
| 15 | Now , 10 years into the programme , it has advanced much further and many of the problems that Elkington mentioned have been solved . |
| 16 | Their reputations as major artists appear to have been confirmed by their strong showing ( see captions ) . |
| 17 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 18 | All the user has to do is enter a client account number at the beginning of each job , and again before a document is printed . |
| 19 | In the 1695 Election support for the war was the major national issue , but most election contests appear to have been dominated by local rivalries and concerns , and in fact there was relatively little controversial pamphleteering at this time , despite the recent expiry of the Licensing Act . |
| 20 | and things like that so , and Amber and Freda so all your mum has to do is press M R and the appropriate number . |
| 21 | In June Austrian police had seized weapons-grade uranium reported to have been smuggled from the former Soviet Union [ see p. 38987 ] . |
| 22 | If the family has decided on cremation , the undertaker will need a further form , so this decision needs to have been made prior to the visit to the Registrar . |
| 23 | Remains of glass working , bell making and bronze working have been found in the layers immediately preceding the building of the church , while the foundations appear to have been laid directly on top of a demolished Roman monumental building . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has to date been contributed by the private sector to city technology colleges . |
| 25 | The other methods listed have been used much less . |
| 26 | If the trustee is unable to declare any or any further dividend , he must give notice to this effect to creditors , and the notice must also contain a statement to the effect that no funds have been realised or that all funds realised have been distributed or used to meet the expenses of the administration ( r 11.7 ) . |
| 27 | Throughout her self-pitying monologue ( for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination ) , all Dustin has to do is stare at her while his moustache droops in sympathy . |
| 28 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 29 | So unflattering are they , their subjects appear to have been caught off guard . |
| 30 | All Marie wants to do is wash . |