Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move is a morale booster for Forte , two weeks before its results , which are expected to show a profits plunge to about £70 million . |
| 2 | He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council . |
| 3 | Despite fears that the continuing American presence could undermine Panamanian support for the new government , they ‘ are going to need a police force ’ , Mr Aspin said . |
| 4 | All these effects on money supply can be summarized using a flow-of-funds equation . |
| 5 | In Chapter 4 it was demonstrated that spot and debt can be used to replicate a futures contract . |
| 6 | When it was suggested that the dredged-out silt could be used to cover a children 's playground , the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) advised against this , because of the contamination present . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to see a sports psychologist because I have n't been focusing on the job and I must become more positive . ’ |
| 8 | Avuncular and sociable , he was a warm and friendly person who might be encountered conducting a Women 's Institute choir , accompanying an audition at the piano , as a freelance organist or providing harpsichord continuo . |
| 9 | New potential buyers should be asked to complete a Buyers Input Form ( see 1108.4 ) which should be sent under a standard covering letter ( 1108.5 ) . |
| 10 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 11 | The 18th Century Brew House has been converted to form a Visitors ' Centre . |
| 12 | IT 'S disgraceful that jailed gangsters Reg and Ronnie Kray have been allowed to commission a kids ' computer game based on their Sixties reign of terror . |
| 13 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 14 | Earlier Colin Telfer , 46 , a Bell Lawrie salesman , said he had talked to Mackie but denied that Mackie told him Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning . |
| 15 | They had such a long distance that they were allowed to have a police bicycle . |
| 16 | It is expected to report a profits slump on April 14 . |
| 17 | The ANSI Task Group is attempting to develop a best-of-both-worlds approach with both strong and free typing , and ways to move between the two approaches . |
| 18 | Any committee interested is invited to send a representatives to the Annual General Meeting to be held at Pelaw Social Club on Saturday March 28 at 10.30am . |
| 19 | AN OLD Darlington building is set to become a children 's nursery despite councillors ' traffic fears . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development is trying to arrange a donors conference to bring further help , but , as my hon. Friend would agree , the best relief of human rights would be if the Iraqis accepted resolutions 706 and 712 and began to sell oil , the proceeds of which could go to the relief of poverty as well as the compensation of those whom they have victimised . |
| 21 | Mr Runciman said it was decided to issue a profits warning which would have come as a bombshell . |
| 22 | So in the late 1890s , another attempt , this time apparently not vetoed by the membership , was made to organize a women 's union . |
| 23 | This is the van that was used to ram a police car . |
| 24 | One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers ' annual conference at Aviemore . |
| 25 | By a government licence under the Act , Mercury Communications , a private company , was authorized to establish a communications system . |
| 26 | Mr Smyth said Williams worked as a leisure professional but also served as a Special Constable and was hoping to become a police officer in the future . |
| 27 | Down the bar someone was trying to start a darts match despite there being a mass of people between them and the board . |