Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One campaigner commented : ‘ Labour are making it easier for the Tories to shift the debate before the next election . ’ |
| 2 | Some are finding it easier to talk about their past as each weekly get together follows the last . |
| 3 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 4 | Some were getting their first experience of Wombat , the anti-tank gun which is issued along with Milan missiles to anti-tank platoons in Berlin battalions : the battalion moves to Berlin in 1990 for two-and-a-half years . |
| 5 | Although many were appointed to established societies and institutes some were to found their own missions — such was the case of George Annand Mackenzie , the first born-deaf man in Britain to get a M.A. degree . |
| 6 | While the Americans were re-educating Japan , the British were waging their long but successful campaign against the Chinese Communist terrorists in the jungles of Malaya , and the French were failing to master the Communist-inspired rebellion in Indo-China . |
| 7 | While the British were enjoying their baked potatoes the Americans were enjoying crisps . |
| 8 | In exchange for wine , pottery and silver vessels , Rome received slaves and commodities like hides , grain , silver and , oddly enough , hunting dogs ; for even at this early date , the British were showing their canine obsession . |
| 9 | This is causing us great concern . |
| 10 | ‘ We see it as necessary to take unilateral steps to defend our interests as this is causing us economical damage , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Now assume that this is assuming they all voted . |
| 12 | It is recognized that this is reaching its final stages . " |
| 13 | Work out the amount that the Government says you need to live on , ( this is called your applicable amount ) . |
| 14 | The safest way to ensure this is to take your basic structures from stories or texts told by your language helper or other speakers of the language . |
| 15 | But this is to ignore his considerable talent to inspire the friendship and devotion of others . |
| 16 | This is to wish you many happy returns . |
| 17 | This is to remind you that insurance is available for all Teachers teaching private classes . |
| 18 | This is to confuse their civil rights with their activities . |
| 19 | This is to make it clear to whom the letter is intended , to ensure that the recipient has an address for further correspondence and to provide the address for window envelopes if they are being used . |
| 20 | All this is making me ill . |
| 21 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 22 | so I think tha Windy 's getting his own back now . |
| 23 | This was to support your long term development work as well as emergency and disaster relief . |
| 24 | This was to remain his only setting of English words . |
| 25 | This was to use his old friends of 216 Squadron to resupply his force by landing their Bombays in the desert . |
| 26 | But I was married with a baby then , and , in 1949 , this was considered my first duty . |
| 27 | As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age . |
| 28 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 29 | While the Chancellor was delivering his speech , prices were heading upwards and the FT-SE 100 was nearing its all-time peak of 2737.8 . |
| 30 | And there would certainly be no commercial benefits if Anglo-Welsh were to substitute their own products for those of Palatine . |