Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extraordinary profits , you may be surprised to see are only twelve point nine million after the Elserver sale but that is a function of the write back of good will on the disposal of Elserver which you will see explained in the preliminary statement , thus reducing the er , profit from two hundred and twenty nine million , which was the estimate at the interim , to thirty five million for the year as a whole . |
| 2 | But whether golfers are worth the staggering cash they seem to bank is quite another subject and , before he died , I chose to ask this question of Henry Cotton who , as a young man , won three Open titles , but comparatively small cheques to go with them . |
| 3 | How the position of Communist Parties is changing in Eastern Europe SOVIET UNION : The party 's guaranteed right to rule is under unprecedented challenge , particularly in the Baltic states . |
| 4 | One problem is that some of the local authorities with which we have to deal are extremely left wing and anti-nuclear . |
| 5 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 6 | Those for whom it was very easy to attend were either well-established family farms where the wife and son/daughter were working at home , or self-employed part-time farmers . |
| 7 | Overall there appears to have been very little exchange between Kent and other areas of England in the sixth and seventh centuries , but where there is a potential link it may indicate the direction of alliances between groups . |
| 8 | There seems to have been very little resentment that Eva should have such a unique opportunity . |
| 9 | The advisory group , set up as a result of the SSI 's criticisms , said : ‘ We were disappointed to find that there seems to have been very little improvement . ’ |
| 10 | As has been noted above , up until now there appears to have been comparatively little research to test public responses to the various new technologies , both large and small scale , or to involve the wider public in the debate about energy policy and the choices to be made from a range of techniques . |
| 11 | Bearing in mind these caveats , of the 34 local authorities in our sample of 52 which mentioned care programming in their 1992/93 community care plans ( 63 per cent ) , about half ( 30 per cent ) appear , at the time of writing their 1992/93 community care plans , to have been actively developing care programming , devoting to it resources new and old , and in many cases using the extension of care programmes to all those eligible as one measure of success in the provision of mental health services . |
| 12 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 13 | They seem to have been under royal patronage and to have comprised industrial activities , craftsmen , and artisans , as well as merchants and traders . |
| 14 | By 1910 however , it seems to have been fairly standard practice for the daughters of skilled manual workers to try to get into printing . |
| 15 | ‘ We know about that ; it seems to have been almost common gossip . |
| 16 | In 1768 the reactions of the North East men seems to have been as short term as those of other areas . |
| 17 | There seem to have been relatively few trading links with Attica , which is surprising , although a scatter of finds at Thorikos suggests that the Minoans may have been interested in the silver ores there ; if so , the island of Kea could have been used as a trading station for their transfer to Crete . |
| 18 | Whether it continues to survive is simply another way of asking whether the traditional collateral fact doctrine will continue to be used by the courts . |
| 19 | In adults , the decision whether or not to defecate is under voluntary control . |
| 20 | The single most difficult skill for the calligrapher to acquire is consistently good letterform in a rhythmic , written hand . |