Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [is] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing I want to see is local authorities skimping on the police . |
| 2 | The Sports Council has confirmed that Andrew Saxton CAN take part , if selected , but it has attacked weighlifting 's ruling body for not taking any action against Saxton . |
| 3 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 4 | In other words what any other writer has written is open territory . |
| 5 | I think that both governments are aware of the proposals that emerged from th my dialogue with Mr Addams , and the process that has emerged , that I have said , and he has said is substantial progress towards lasting peace . |
| 6 | But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece . |
| 7 | One thing Novell needs to avoid is internal conflict over what it sells — otherwise it gets into DEC 's position of having Unix on the books , but preferring to push its proprietary offerings . |
| 8 | But that local needs heading is one heading , the other heading which I think would be unavoidable is erm on migration . |
| 9 | But you 're , well you , supposing you 've got two long conversations , what you want to do is two bits , I can transfer bits out of |
| 10 | All that needs saying is that Mould is back with a razor sharp cleaver , a new band , a re-tuned view of the uneven-ness of life . |
| 11 | all that needs saying is that Mould is back in a big way … |
| 12 | What I want to ensure is that Computer Services aspirations for Phases 2 and 3 do not cause unnecessary delay or additional cost to an improvement in the Committee Division 's use of computers . |
| 13 | However , in New South Wales , the lowest maximum penalty for conduct which would previously have amounted to rape is seven years . |
| 14 | But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground . |
| 15 | The problem that Scotland somehow has to overcome is that fact that while there is a high degree of quality there remains the worrying lack of quantity . |
| 16 | Er the situation is that what has happened is that government has lowered the mandatory ceiling from fifty thousand to twenty thousand . |
| 17 | Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable . |
| 18 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 19 | — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’ |
| 20 | What the right hon. Gentleman has to say is economic illiteracy . |
| 21 | What I want to say is one thing about the public 's perception of the political scene at the moment . |
| 22 | Where that information relates to national security , all that the Government has to show is that publication might cause some injury to the national interest — a test which would ensure that the British equivalent of the Pentagon Papers would never see the light of day . |
| 23 | The one area of Conservative history which has flourished is political biography , but the danger of this is a tendency to reduce the history of the Conservative Party to a history of personalities and to avoid any analysis of Conservatism in terms of structures , interests and ideas . |
| 24 | All we seemed to get is abstract art which people in Harlow means so few appreciate which I quite understand . . . |
| 25 | But one point on which all policemen and women seem to agree is that competence is experiential rather than textbook in origin . |
| 26 | Travel wholesaling is common practice today but Cooks pioneered it so successfully that they were issuing printed standard contracts to their agents by 1884 . |
| 27 | Questionnaires in the rooms inviting the guests to comment on the standards of facilities and service and what extra facilities the guests would like incorporated is another method of providing ideas on how to improve the saleability of the product . |
| 28 | What supporters seem to overlook is that football is a game of two sides — one side has to lose otherwise it is a draw . |
| 29 | So what tends to happen is that world , world agricultural prices fall , right , and that trend has been observed erm , er , it 's an im empiric empirically , agricultural product prices tend to have fallen in general sort of , over the last sort of , eighteen hundred years . |
| 30 | At the end of the day that trainee will not get his N V Q and what 's going to happen is that branch managers be penalized if that happens . |