Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that Wordsworth can play off speech-rhythm against the iambic pattern ; if one reads the extract aloud ‘ List'ning ’ and ‘ Broke ’ , for example , are heard to run counter to the expected rhythm and help the verse to mime what is being described . |
| 2 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 3 | Other case management experiments have been intended to reduce reliance upon hospital or residential care , and some have shown that this can be achieved while others produce conflicting evidence . |
| 4 | On each occasion , every available manservant had been posted to keep watch for soldiers , and she knew that if ever there was a night Tristram should not come visiting , this was it . |
| 5 | Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods . |
| 6 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 7 | SCIENTISTS in Wales are helping to boost production of one of India 's staple foods — the ubiquitous chapati , writes Tony Heath . |
| 8 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 9 | Ten to 17-year-olds are taught to take responsibility for themselves , to understand the effects of their crime on the local community and to compensate their victim . |
| 10 | We are taught to equate beauty with ‘ success ’ , ‘ social mobility ’ and sexual desire . |
| 11 | FORMER Wallaby fly-half Tony Melrose has been reinstated to play rugby in Sydney next season after playing 10 seasons of rugby league with four different New South Wales rugby league premiership clubs . |
| 12 | Local authorities are struggling to maintain provision at a time when they should be expanding efforts to meet the needs of this sector of the population . |
| 13 | In the second stage of the project the schedules have been redesigned to take account of suggestions made by social workers . |
| 14 | It was also noted that a series of young analysts ' talk shops had been arranged to take place during the ‘ Laboratory ’ exhibition in November 1991 . |
| 15 | A tribute to Freddie Mercury and Queen has been arranged to take place on Friday 24 September in the canteen at Barlaston from 7pm . |
| 16 | Nearby a huge waterwheel has been developed to generate power for a special lift for less able visitors , providing access to the top of the falls . |
| 17 | In the present project , the semantic analyser has been developed to take input in the form of word candidates , and output those words with their associated scores . |
| 18 | New agroforestry techniques have also been developed to increase productivity without disrupting the basic symbiosis which exists between tree crop and annual crop . |
| 19 | A wide range of measures have been developed to encourage exploitation of technologies , the diffusion of technologies between sectors and the spread of best practice . |
| 20 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 21 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 22 | In general , statutory and regulatory record-keeping requirements have been amended to take account of modern technology , However , in specific areas , legal terminology , such as requirements for a ‘ written document ’ , may continue to restrict reliance on electronic systems and create legal uncertainty . |
| 23 | New cross-divisional groups have been formed to take advantage of the freshly freed-up data . |
| 24 | That more exact calculation has , I think , met with general approval and as I said in my statement about our proposal for council tax benefit in a written answer on 28 November , we intend to maintain that closer alignment in the wake of the changes in local taxation that are intended to take effect in April 1993 . |
| 25 | These notes are intended to add enjoyment to your walks and views of the Hills . |
| 26 | However , many of its attributes are not fully appreciated and the following notes are intended to increase awareness of these . |
| 27 | Figures in this year 's Military Balance have not been revised to take account of the reductions of 500,000 troops and 10,000 tanks announced by Mikhail Gorbachev at the United Nations last December . |
| 28 | Though the account remains essentially the same as in earlier editions , the bibliography has been revised to take account of scholarship down to 1990 . |
| 29 | These animals are just a handful from the diversity of the natural world and have been hounded to near extinction by trade , disappearing habitat and hunting . |
| 30 | I promise him that I am endeavouring to find time for a debate . |