Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since make has been shown to evoke the idea of simply producing an effect , this explains why have always suggests a disposition to comply , whereas make does not . |
| 2 | The Code of Practice which the Secretary of State has approved is intended to give traders practical guidance . |
| 3 | What , perhaps , she needs to do is to learn to counsel by doing counselling and by being counselled . |
| 4 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 5 | What you want to do is learn to play the organ . |
| 6 | ‘ What we may consider doing is to threaten to refuse to renew the temporary planning permission for the portakabin , ’ said Coun Christine Russell . |
| 7 | Although there were no mechanical clocks in antiquity , mechanical models appear to have been constructed to reproduce the relative motions of the heavenly bodies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Gandhi 's manoeuvrings — which included four visits to the president , who can dissolve parliament — appear to have been designed to lure supporters from Mr Shekhar and from the previous prime minister , V.P. Singh . |
| 10 | The squad is also reported to have been ordered to take a 10 per cent wage cut to cover falling gates . |
| 11 | The reason is that s.2(3) provides that , for the purposes of s.2(1) ( b ) in this situation only , the creditor is deemed to have been induced to wait for payment . |
| 12 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 13 | Witnesses reported that both he and the Bf109 he had first attacked had been seen to come down , and he was credited with one victory . |
| 14 | The most interesting cases , however , are the last : those in which a trust imposed on a bequest which has failed is held to survive . |
| 15 | Many of the cars being repaired have been converted to accept unleaded according to manufacturers guidelines which suggest a quick correction of engine timing will do the trick . |
| 16 | They identify aspects of grief and restitution , the need to feel secure and confident that all that can be done has been done to recompense for earlier losses , and that one has a safe confidante somewhere in the situation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The amount of deformation these dykes have suffered has been used to unravel the main structural differences between the Scourie and Laxfordian events . |
| 19 | Blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke up the massive blaze , was also found at the secluded site at Coppull near Chorley . |
| 20 | Blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke up the massive blaze , was also found at the secluded site in Coppull , near Chorley . |
| 21 | The weapons were found buried in deep undergrowth near the murder scene along with a petrol can and blue polythene sheeting , believed to have been used to carry coal to stoke the massive blaze where Mr Pettitt 's body was burned . |
| 22 | Norman Woodhouse , the BAIE 's Director of European Affairs said : ‘ It is a tribute to the publications which have been selected to have been chosen to enter this first pan-European competition . |
| 23 | Karnstein seemed to have been born to fit the caricatured image of a hospital matron , determined to do a patient good even if it killed him . |
| 24 | In one or two places railways were said to have been built to alleviate famine . |
| 25 | Morrison was host to such Victorian worthies as Ruskin , the great art critic , and Charles Kingsley , who is said to have been inspired to write his book The Water Babies by his visits to the Dales ( Vendale being based on Littondale ) and who once told somebody that the black marks on the face of Malham Cove were made by " the fingers of little chimney boys " . |
| 26 | He is said to have been trying to get his ship into port in a force nine gale with almost no visibility — and guided by a pilot on shore . |
| 27 | Pre-emptive analgesia has , indeed , been said to have been shown to occur in several clinical studies . |
| 28 | The date is said to have been chosen to thwart those taking precautions by adjusting computer clocks , which trigger the virus , to avoid the notorious date . |
| 29 | The firms were briefed on COSE shortly after the COSE announcement and are said to have been encouraged to make their voices heard . |
| 30 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |