Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The context was always a plea for tolerance of something which he had been taught to regard as sinful . |
| 2 | A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained . |
| 3 | The results are expected to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs . |
| 4 | The security source added : ‘ Customs are checking to see if these men are in fact registered for VAT . ’ |
| 5 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 6 | I AM writing to ask if any readers have business cards — not necessarily their own — which they are prepared to donate to my collection with the hope that , one day , it may be large enough to gain some form of record . |
| 7 | Tom settled himself down at the table and said , ‘ Now , let's have a chat about what we 're going to do when this snow clears . |
| 8 | I think we 've all got used to , with some products at least , asking questions about how green it is , whether it 's recycled paper , whether it 's going to destroy the ozone layer , as well as asking questions like what price is it , but if we 're going to decide whether one jar of coffee is fair-traded as opposed to another one , what questions do we need to kn know the answers to , to decide that . |
| 9 | I think you 're meant to ask if that 's a true record . |
| 10 | Oh , we 're trying to see if any pick up the nails in the wall , you know |
| 11 | If companies are going to prosper when economic conditions improve , how should these information needs be satisfied ? |
| 12 | She had been spared telephoning after all — she realized that she did not even know whom to ask for at the hotel in Bandol . |
| 13 | I would be fascinated to know if these yards of generally disagreeable reviews will in fact sell copies . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose he 's got flu now and I 'm expected to manage as usual with only half of you here . |
| 15 | TableCurve can calculate the data 's best fit to one of its equations , or the plot of the data can be previewed to decide whether any data needs to be edited or excluded , or weighting factors applied prior to processing . |
| 16 | I 'm checking to see if this has stopped . |
| 17 | For both these purposes , it is inconvenient to regard the existing distinctive qualities of women — whatever these may be — as simply deformations produced by oppression , which could be expected to evaporate when that artificial pressure is removed . |
| 18 | This market can be expected to grow since increased leisure time and rising disposable incomes are likely to.lead to an increased take up of leisure activities . |
| 19 | Erm what I was trying to do was be candid about what kind of er inquiries of the strategic kind might be expected to come if this county had that kind of policy . |
| 20 | Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of |
| 21 | In these examples descriptions of exchange and the crossing of frontiers illustrate the move from one discursive domain to another , showing how such actions can be made to function as textual manoeuvres and figure the metaphoric strategies of the imagination . |
| 22 | On the face of it , it may seem that these two approaches can be made to coincide as long as the rules are drawn up to reflect the facts . |
| 23 | This effectively established a matrix on the database ( Fig 11.10 ) so that an annotation could be made to indicate whether each item of information , in relation to the activity described , was relevant to the functional groups that existed in the EPH , ie the Officers ( OICs ) , Clerical Assistant ( Clerk ) , Care Assistants ( CA ) , Domestic Assistants ( DA ) , the Cook , and the Gardener/handyman ( Gdnr ) . |
| 24 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 25 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 26 | With a study designed the way this one was there is very little that can be done to decide whether this relatively uninteresting possibility is the major factor determining the results , the studies in the remainder of this thesis are , however , designed to address this problem . |
| 27 | After almost 10 years in University history teaching I was concerned that my students seemed to have very little idea of how history actually came to be written and of what criteria might be used to decide whether one book was more worth reading than another . |
| 28 | Grandchildren could be used to help when small , and there were also a few instances of a grandchild moving in during adulthood . |
| 29 | Long term studies will be needed to assess if this effect is maintained . |
| 30 | My favourite statistic of the match , however , is that six of the England team have the middle initial A. I can not be bothered to check whether this has ever happened before , but I doubt it . |