Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now parental investment is a technical concept which we do n't need to go into in this course in too great detail , suffice is to say that parental investment represents everything a parent sinks into its offspring which promotes its offspring 's reproductive success . |
| 2 | What he would really and truly like was to do this new degree course for Bachelor of Civil Law . |
| 3 | All you do is to move that decimal point two places . |
| 4 | I puke again , but it 's just like my tummy s being squeezed and all I do is make this coughing noise and nothing comes out . |
| 5 | Instead of highlighting the first cell with the formula in it , and the rest of the row or column , then accessing the edit menu and copying right or down , all you do is use that little cross in the bottom right hand corner of the cell border , and drag it across the range you want the formula copied to — Excel is clever enough to decide whether you want to copy or fill , and copies the formula through the range of cells — making the necessary alterations to cell references as it goes . |
| 6 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 7 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 8 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 10 | What kind of people d' you think I the first year psychology students they 've been given some sexual orientation ? |
| 11 | We 've been mentioning this good housekeeping |
| 12 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 13 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 14 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been doing this Velvets-type thing recently with string . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been doing some serious thinking about that . |
| 18 | You 've been doing those alright have n't you . |
| 19 | I 've been going half crazy with worry wondering what on earth had happened to you . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been practising this mega dance routine . |
| 21 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |
| 22 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |
| 23 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 24 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 25 | I 've been requesting that small courtesy for weeks ! |
| 26 | I must say I 've only grown two maincrop this year , I 've been clearing some new ground and I 've just grown King Edward and Pink Fir Apple , I 've got the biggest biggest Pink Fir Apples you have ever seen bar none but I 'm coming back to you now Fred , I put to you a few minutes ago , your personal recommendations for the best three or four or five potatoes for the different cooking purposes . |
| 27 | I know you 've been investigating that horrible Martin man , even though you 've tried to keep it quiet , so here you are . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It can not be denied that in the face of recession , publishers have been exploring all possible avenues for book sales . ’ |
| 29 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 30 | Here their superiors criticise them for failing after they have been given such brilliant training . |