Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adequate insurance cover gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your business 's ability to continue trading has been preserved , and that the personal assets of directors are not at risk . |
| 2 | There still seems to be a lot to be discovered quantitatively about the physical nature of wave damage or erosion and its precise causes , although Komar ( 1976 ) has pointed to work being done in Japan relating wave height and frequency , together with rock properties , to rates of cliff recession . |
| 3 | The energy radiated to space has been calculated from detailed observations across the Jovian disc of radiation at planetary wavelengths , and the energy absorbed from the Sun has been calculated from the Bond albedo , which measurements have shown is about 35% . |
| 4 | The bearer of this document , Agatha de Courcy , must be given every aid and assistance for what she has done has been done for the sake of the Crown and the good of our realm . ’ |
| 5 | What the maker has done has been to start with a 12-fret guitar design ( not a guitar with only twelve frets , but a guitar with a neck that joins at the 12th as opposed to the 14th fret ) and then he 's combined this with a deep cutaway on the treble side to open up the whole fingerboard for exploration . |
| 6 | Everything he has done has been aimed at bringing the country to dictatorship , to presidential rule as they call it . |
| 7 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 8 | But what he has done has been to study twenty one species of freshwater molluscs — that means snails , clams , things of that kind from the Lake Tocarno region of Africa . |
| 9 | And for every tonne of gold at least twice as much mercury has thought to have been lost into the environment . |
| 10 | As has been suggested , ‘ prejudice ’ , as an everyday concept , as well as a social-scientific one , represents a strong cultural value : even racist theorists of a fascist party appear to wish to avoid being labelled as prejudiced and do not care to think of themselves as prejudiced . |
| 11 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |
| 12 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 13 | This incident has led to work being carried on , comparing shadow sizes . |
| 14 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 15 | Sunsoft says all it has left to do is upgrade localised versions of the software from Solaris 2.0 to Solaris 2.1 : German , French , Italian , Japanese and two Chinese editions are due . |
| 16 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 17 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 18 | But what he 'd got to do was to plan his time , and work out his priorities , by distinguishing between those tasks that are urgent and those tasks that are important . |
| 19 | He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone |
| 20 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 21 | Watkins concluded that these straight trackways , which he came to believe had been known as ‘ leys ’ , had ‘ landmarks ’ constructed along their route as a guide . |
| 22 | But local people this week vowed to step up their campaign after details of the area of land the developers are seeking to have re-zoned were made public . |
| 23 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |
| 24 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 25 | A drama which threatened to turn into a tragedy when artistic tempers flared appears to have been resolved . |
| 26 | Clearly , in Satnam and kindred cases , the purely objective stance which Caldwell has been interpreted to represent has been rejected . |
| 27 | And he did train , he actually trained for five years , and instead of holiday he got , and something he 'd like to have done is learnt to compete in the Whitbread Round the World . |
| 28 | ‘ Just as you 're going to have to endure being separated from Jeff every day — at least for a few hours , while we do our English lessons . ’ |
| 29 | Right let's have a quick listen , I think what we 're going to need to do is to get a chest X- ray , even if your chest is fairly clear , I still suspect it 's the hernia that 's drying things up . |
| 30 | All they seem to want to do is to dig up bits about Paul 's past . |