Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a specific sum is anticipated in 6 months time , and today 's price of the share in which it is intended to invest is considered low or is forecast to rise , then the price may be fixed now by the use of a call option . |
| 2 | Now that the inevitability of synonyms occurring has been made clear , we must consider how to deal with them . |
| 3 | What Vichy has done is to graft hydrophilic collagen into lipidic chains , allowing it to pass into the epidermis to perform vital energising work . |
| 4 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 5 | They then put us on trucks to bring us here and anyone who tried to escape was beaten senseless . " |
| 6 | All they want to do is make sure it does n't blow up into anything . ’ |
| 7 | Then Miguel said in a strangled sort of voice , ‘ When all I want to do is get blind drunk , I have to play the host . |
| 8 | It is a new A5 size printed in three different languages to directly appeal to WASL 's growing European network . |
| 9 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 10 | Perambulations which appear to have been made pursuant to these instructions are extant for the counties of Buckingham , Cumberland , Huntingdon , Oxford , Shropshire , Yorkshire and Wiltshire . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 13 | Earlier , about 50,000 protesters were reported to have been chanting anti-government slogans in Timisoara and demanding that the bodies of victims be returned to their families . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 15 | Two Somali gunmen were reported to have been shot dead and several others wounded the same day in an attack on a UN compound in Mogadishu , and there were further reported incidents of continuing instability in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 16 | The United States carrier Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ) ceased operations on Dec. 4 after facing heavy financial losses ; an estimated 10,000 of the airline 's employees were reported to have been made redundant . |
| 17 | All of Kuwait 's 950 producing oil wells were reported to have been set ablaze or damaged . |
| 18 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |
| 19 | On March 8 the " commercial " border with Argentina was reported to have been closed due to a " massive increase " in smuggling . |
| 20 | " Coventry 's tenants are the worst in the country , " blurted out a Coventry councillor , But when some of his colleagues on the council , together with fellow Labour Party activists , surveyed the extent to which repairs correctly reported had been made good by the council on several large estates , they found that 70 per cent had not been carried out . |
| 21 | The major contribution to the promotion of community languages which these courses have made has been to discover significant numbers of good classroom practitioners , good analysts , good coordinators and good teacher trainers , so as to build up a genuine national resource in terms of expertise . |
| 22 | I think you have to know a lot [ in chemistry ] , whereas with physics , what you hope to do is get general laws and principles that are applicable widely . |
| 23 | Carson seemed to have been taken off-guard by her appreciation . |
| 24 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 25 | When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ . |
| 26 | The only sane response to a complaint in some circumstances is a firm ‘ no ’ but it is important that the complaint is seen to have been given serious consideration and that those that have complained are not made to feel foolish . |
| 27 | The way to help dormice is to encourage hazel and a wide variety of other trees and shrubs the animals feed on . |
| 28 | A motorist involved in a crash on the M-four motorway in which ten people died has been found guilty of careless driving . |
| 29 | What this Tory government intends to do is see total destruction of the trade union movements . |
| 30 | All you 've got to do is make sure there 's no trap beyond it . ) |