Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colour you are assigned arises from your position in the draw , but this may change from round to round , so do n't go to the same position as you went to previously . |
| 2 | They 're protesting at what they see as discrimination in the way they are treated compared with their European colleagues . |
| 3 | Many tales have been recorded of descendants of Irish families who have died far across the seas , just as a banshee has been heard to wail outside their birthplace in Ireland . |
| 4 | TWO police officers are to go to jail for their part in the massacre of guerrilla prisoners in a Lima prison in June , 1986 . |
| 5 | Pupils in resource centre provision usually have the ordinary classroom as their home base , with the responsibility for what they are taught resting with their classroom teacher . |
| 6 | Early achievement spurs the client on ; they are taught to focus on their success , and to cope with any difficulties rationally by altering the programme slightly until success is achieved . |
| 7 | Most men are taught to seek in their working lives the sense of purpose , of meaning and of self-respect that women seek in personal relationships . |
| 8 | She 'd been taught to submit for her country , so why not for herself . |
| 9 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 10 | The grounds for doubt are very varied but there are now several cases of chimpanzees , and at least one gorilla , who have first been taught to communicate with their human mentors in an apparently rational way by means of stereotyped signs invented by their teachers and have then gone on to use these signs grammatically , generating novel sentences as if the signs formed a genuine human language . |
| 11 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , according to long-standing tradition , the esteem with which different organs are regarded diminishes with their position in the body from the top downwards . |
| 13 | British Rail , SNCF and SNCB ( Société Nationale de Chemins de Fers Belges ) are cooperating in the design of a special fleet of high speed trains for use on the London-Brussels-Paris lines , and an international consortium of companies has been formed to tender for their detailed design and construction . |
| 14 | This then provides the background for the next comment made in the text , about the difficulty of proof : the case just discussed is a relatively easy one , since the testator has at any rate made it clear that the coheirs are intended to benefit under his will . |
| 15 | Kate felt like a little girl who has been caught cheating in her exams . |
| 16 | As part of the submissive , unassertive attitude which for centuries women have been programmed to adopt towards their families , it is very common for women to feel slightly guilty about their children , their partner or their parents . |
| 17 | You would think , therefore , that it would pay agencies to study assiduously not only the editorial content of the pages which are designed to appeal to their potential customers , but also the verbal and visual techniques employed to attract and keep them . |
| 18 | ‘ I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical , economic , or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty . ’ |
| 19 | By Order of the Police , artistes are forbidden to receive in their rooms during the show . |
| 20 | Sometimes , I love it ; often , I like it but there 's also a minority of tracks where I think the Horde , and especially Simon 's songwriting , are caught coasting on their formula . |
| 21 | Hence , the type of teasing that the older youths had been permitted to inflict on their juniors in the Tunnel of Terror . |
| 22 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 23 | Now the uncertainty has been lifted , hundreds of hospitals will seek self-governing status while more family doctors are expected to opt for their own budgets — although Mr Major reaffirmed yesterday that he would continue to cherish and build up the NHS . |
| 24 | It is the stuff of ivory towers and only clever boys and girls are expected to reflect upon its themes . |
| 25 | The Government has an overriding duty to implement balanced defence policies that not only meet the country 's strategic military interests , but also provide a reasonable quality of life to those men and women who are expected to serve on our behalf . |
| 26 | In all cases students taking a course ( which is usually either a two-year diploma course or a one-year course ) are expected to return to their country on completion of training . |
| 27 | Exactly how zoos are expected to dispose of their lar gibbons is not clear , and it is this which concerns the International Primate Protection League ( IPPL ) . |
| 28 | In both the UK and the US over 40 per cent of workers are expected to stay with their first employer for over 20 years ( Collier and Knight 1985 p.21 ) . |
| 29 | A further major ‘ saving ’ in the scheme has been achieved by increasing the contributions that non-dependants are expected to make towards their housing costs . |
| 30 | There was a cash adjustment in Coventry 's favour and both players are expected to play for their new clubs tonight . |