Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silvertone are seeking a court declaration that four members of the band and their manager Gareth Evans are bound to their contract , among unconfirmed rumours that Geffen are ready to move in to snap up the band for £2.2 million . |
| 2 | Routledge are offering a number of promising books including Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages by Richard Marks of York University ( about £80 ) . |
| 3 | If we say are providing a band for dancing , we are liable if they let us down . |
| 4 | They 've lodged an official complaint against the police , who they say were treating the case as suicide . |
| 5 | What I propose is to examine the impact of notions of racial hierarchy , racial exclusion , and racial vulnerability and availability on non-blacks who held , resisted , explored , or altered those notions . |
| 6 | Once Izzat is tainted a woman can do very little about it . |
| 7 | If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room . |
| 8 | Chilling words of knife maniac : All I want is to kill a cop |
| 9 | He bragged to friends : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper . |
| 10 | Nicholas Vernage told a friend : ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ , an Old Bailey jury heard . |
| 11 | Mr Nutting added : ‘ Grenfell admitted that in his presence Vernage had often said ‘ All I want is to kill a copper ’ . |
| 12 | They do n't mind helping you out getting the diverts in the right position , because the last thing they want is to put the calls through to the wrong person . |
| 13 | All I want is to show the world that Charles was not hallucinating . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ All I really want is to have a home of my own and for my children to be happy . ’ |
| 15 | Lewis said yesterday : ‘ The last thing I want is to get the title outside the ring . |
| 16 | Even as the salesmen are expounding the virtues of the paperless office the systems their customers install are doubling the number of printed pages produced by businesses every three years . |
| 17 | So CrossWind is adopting a client/server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac , Windows or OS/2 interface . |
| 18 | Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself . |
| 19 | I remember being given a box of fancy chocolates , the kind of thing I 'd never had before . |
| 20 | Lucien immediately recognised the movements of the dance as being those of a classical piece : Paradouze being taught the sequences of the Vibrancy by His uncle , the cat-headed snake Smoobillow , a body of knowledge which Paradouze would later pass on to humankind . |
| 21 | ‘ I agree you 're as hard as granite , ’ she returned smartly , ‘ but I do n't know that I like being called a drip . ’ |
| 22 | This problem , which we all know is to change the balance of the nations trade from deficit to surplus to export more than we import , and to take this trade balance out of the red . |
| 23 | About all the exercise you get is pressing the button on your automatic gear change . |
| 24 | The spectre of the ubiquity of the Microsoft Windows interface is pushing a lot of big names like IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , SunSoft Inc , Novell Inc and Unix System Labs toward standardising on some common look-and-feel features for Unix . |
| 25 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 26 | We therefore have to be in a position to share the dreams and the understandings of those people who we believe are making the running for tomorrow , wherever they may be . |
| 27 | Roncraft are producing a range of clear and coloured versions , but I suspect that the clear gloss and satin finishes will be of most interest . |
| 28 | Now Fairworld is offering a reward for information which leads to the conviction of the thieves . |
| 29 | As a last resort the salesperson may need to ‘ second guess ’ the reluctant buyer and suggest an issue which they believe is causing the problem and ask a question such as : |
| 30 | Our society 's very complex in that that erm in that sense , the effect that you feel is break the law erm you know if you want certain services , we 're supposed to have a structure in our society which is which is catered for , which caters for all eventualities . |