Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 2 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |
| 3 | I confirm that all claims to benefit are treated strictly in accordance with the law , and benefit would not be paid to any person unless the entitlement was valid . |
| 4 | Proposals that wages should be linked directly to age were put forward by labour unions in the later 1940s as a way of establishing a wage profile that reflected the increasing levels of housing or educational spending , but the slope of the female wage profile shows that the age/wage connection may not be universal . |
| 5 | Those too drunk to stand were dragged away to their tents and caravans . |
| 6 | It is n't enough for you , and I hate you for it , and I want you to go before you decide to leave me , and I love you , and how am I expected to stand being cooped up with him . |
| 7 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 8 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 9 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 10 | The right not to answer was pointed out to W when he was cautioned and it would be wrong to put before the jury a question and answer where the question might influence the jury , and the answer amounted to nothing . |
| 11 | He did n't answer and Jess felt uneasy , but having started to talk was determined not to be ignored . |
| 12 | But predictive judgments about ability to comply are founded not upon some dispassionate analysis of economic facts and figures so much as upon characterizations of a discharger 's know-how and willingness to comply , derived from his occupation , size , experience , and reputation . |
| 13 | Three hamlets on the fringe of a fast expanding new town are fighting to avoid being swallowed up by new development . |
| 14 | Whether we take Lorentz 's view that the masses were bored and ready to be distracted or Macpherson 's notion that they had sensed that the movies were at least hinting at new possibilities , it is difficult to avoid being swept along by the romance of those early days . |
| 15 | But perhaps to avoid being carried away by nostalgia , he wisely left the bidding to his wife and daughter . |
| 16 | Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ? |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the Department of Health was urging caterers to adopt total quality management systems in order to avoid being caught out by environmental health officers . |
| 18 | Some of the men they knew had gone home to Ireland to escape being called up for the forces , but many more were serving in the Army , Navy or Air Force or were at sea with the Merchant Marine . |
| 19 | A CHARITY that helps blind babies and teaches them how to smile is running out of money . |
| 20 | The real issue is that the power of the female to gestate is brought back into symbolic conjunction with the generation of the divine presence , a conjunction excluded by patriarchal religion for four millennia . |
| 21 | A farm-boy who came up to help was sent back to the farmhouse to cancel the fire-brigade call . |
| 22 | The damage that I once managed to inflict was to bend on of the metal strips away from the needle . |
| 23 | Similarly , statistically significant incremental responses of enteroglucagon to deoxycholate were found only for the three highest doses ( 3.3 mM : incremental response 4.9 ( 1.2 ) pmol/l/min , F 1 , 1 9 =6.8 , p<0.02 ; 10.0 mM : incremental response 10.7 ( 3.4 ) pmol/l/min , F 1 , 1 9 =27.8 , p= 0.00004 ; 30 mM : incremental response 10.1 ( 1.6 ) pmol/l/min , F 1 , 1 9 =20.9 , p=0.0002 ) ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 24 | This call to worship is followed quickly by the call to be thankful : ‘ Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him . ’ |
| 25 | The great thing about this holiday club is if all you want to do is laze about in the sun , they 'll let you . |
| 26 | What they need to do is lobby strongly for more women bosses . |
| 27 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 28 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 29 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 30 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |