Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The boys are naturally worried and they have been phoning home to find out more about the situation , ’ Mathur said . |
| 2 | Two examples are given here to illustrate how socially useful design could make a fuller and more creative use of new technologies . |
| 3 | PEOPLE savaged by the tabloids are banding together to fight back . |
| 4 | Speaking of exploitation , students of the genre might care to consider Trapper County War ( Guild ) , an archetypal example of the backwoods nightmare , set in one of those supposed hillbilly communities where the locals , when not spitting out tobacco or imprecations , are banding together to hunt down interlopers and blast them to bits . |
| 5 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 6 | The teeth on these tools are formed individually to slice off slivers of wood quickly and easily . |
| 7 | When the young are older , able to run with her , the vixen shepherds them to their new home , induces them to move in and somehow makes sure that they are disciplined enough to stay underground in this new home even when she is not with them . |
| 8 | Consultants ' leaders are expected today to agree how results will be given to hospital managers . |
| 9 | PLA2 has been considered earlier to act mainly as a harmful agent in the pathology of various inflammatory diseases including acute pancreatitis . |
| 10 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 12 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |
| 13 | We 're goin' there to pick up some of your clothes . ’ |
| 14 | We know that 's largely what they want , but we 're having possibly to move away from that . |
| 15 | they 're playing tonight to leave tomorrow clear for the internationals … the only Gloucester man going for the Grand Slam … is Mike Teague … he 's back in the England pack at twickenham |
| 16 | WITH the recession few newspaper companies are seeing dramatic increases in their revenues , rather they 're fighting hard to hold out until the economic situation improves . |
| 17 | This explanation has been advanced previously to explain very similar seasonal cycles at Cape Grim in the vertical gradient of methane , which is destroyed by OH and which , like ozone , shows an enhanced drawdown in boundary-layer concentration in summer . |
| 18 | Finally , some of the country 's flashiest car collectors have been getting together to show off their prized possessions . |
| 19 | These steeply-inclined belts or zones of earthquake sites are known now to exist all round the Pacific ; they are called Benioff zones , after their discoverer , the seismologist Hugo Benioff . |
| 20 | They are told they are coming here to carry on their education , and I interpret this as being very broad-based . |
| 21 | They had been brought here to round up the escaped prisoners but fortunately no one was giving them any information . |
| 22 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 23 | ‘ While in times past a royal wife would be expected simply to put up with a situation no matter how desperate , the Princess of Wales belongs to a generation that has come to expect greater things from life and certainly from relationships , ’ she wrote . |
| 24 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 25 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 26 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 27 | If you read this be prepared never to go out again . |
| 28 | Marine pollution specialists stressed that the diesel was likely to disperse — but an attempt will be made today to pump ashore 40 tonnes of fuel which is still on board . |
| 29 | Nottingham can be seen however to have originally developed from the centre , by looking at the development map of the city . |
| 30 | And given that devices change as new models are introduced , there will then be a daunting support job to be done just to keep up with the market . |