Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 2 | Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory tablets are helping to clear up tendonitis which forced him to return home early from Majorca earlier this month . |
| 3 | BET has been struggling to pay off debts after a period of over-expansion combined with the recession to hit profits . |
| 4 | Omnidirectional microphones are designed to pick up sound equally in all directions ; the one on your camcorder may be omnidirectional . |
| 5 | This is the central concern for what we may call the ‘ top-down ’ approach to the study of implementation : why do n't those who are expected to carry out policies do what is required of them ? |
| 6 | Work with second-year pupils on " Housing " and " Alternative ideologies " will see the combination of both databases ( using EDFAX ) and datafiles , in those parts of the curriculum where pupils are expected to carry out inquiry work . |
| 7 | Private firms are expected to stump up £400 million of the Pounds 1.8 billion cost of the 10-mile route . |
| 8 | It will argue to delegates in Kyoto that , while a Bryde 's whale is worth about ¥33.4m ( $100,000 ) in a fish market , the 16 resident Bryde 's whales at Ogata are expected to bring in ¥675m to the boatmen over the next 15 years and nearly eight times as much in hotel accommodation and assorted knick-knacks . |
| 9 | The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only this weekend , industrial users in the electricity industry have been looking to break up power generators and introduce competition , and there is a suggestion that the Director General of Electricity Supply might yet refer the electricity industry to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the issue of industrial prices , as happened with British Gas . |
| 12 | Many memos are written to find out information from within the organisation . |
| 13 | Microphones are built to pick up sound from specific directions . |
| 14 | It is here that efforts have been made to open up resources to working-class communities and/or to provide access into educational institutions . |
| 15 | She had never so much resented having been made to take over responsibility for the dog from old Adam , who had been used to walk him , than on that day . |
| 16 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 17 | But with the exception of Aviemore in Scotland , no serious attempt has been made to set up leisure communities in Britain . |
| 18 | Arrangements have already been made to bring in lorry loads of two ton boulders from a quarry at Carndonagh to try and halt the erosion . |
| 19 | Yet Nixon continued to maintain his innocence : on 22 May , he stated that " I took no part in , nor was I aware of any subsequent effort that may have been made to cover up Watergate . " |
| 20 | The lawyers are refusing to hand over details of all the litigation until they are paid in full . |
| 21 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 22 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 23 | Adam , we 're going to take over Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | I think they 're going to move down south . |
| 25 | If they 're going to find out Paul Gray 's killer they need to know as much as possible about his movements near to the time of his death . ’ |
| 26 | In that space of time you 're going to build up hatred . |
| 27 | And they 're voting to cut back benefits , so it seems that they perhaps have misjudged . |
| 28 | They 're trained to bring back casualties … but this is different . |
| 29 | When you 're trying to write down speech , you can see that there are all sorts of problems initially , of how much you write down . |
| 30 | You are requested to switch off lights when these are not needed and to exercise proper economy in the use of telephones and other company equipment . |