Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should one warhorse be slain the wagon can still move but its speed is reduced to 4″ . |
| 2 | The number of images per second needed to make them merge is called the flicker fusion frequency . |
| 3 | After the first two movements , after such great torture , all you can do is let the music flow . |
| 4 | One thing we do n't do is put the dog on the couch . |
| 5 | ‘ All we can do is put the football right and you only do that on the pitch . |
| 6 | I mean what we can do is set the oven . |
| 7 | She did n't like being thought the kind of woman who would steal another woman 's husband . |
| 8 | Is the Minister aware that , by 9 January , Bir Zeit university will have been closed continuously for a period of four years and that a generation of young Palestinians will have been denied the right to higher education , which is surely one of the basic fundamental human rights ? |
| 9 | Dr Lyons said Moore should have been escorted the morning following the cemetery incident when he left the home of a colleague where he had spent the night . |
| 10 | Some of them are very good indeed but it is unlikely that they will have been given the opportunity to develop skills in such highly specialised areas as industrial photography , beauty photography or still life . |
| 11 | Eilish McDermott , QC , appearing for Doherty , submitted ‘ natural justice ’ required that — taking account of the time he spent in jail in the US — Doherty should have been given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | Dr Enid Starkie would have been given the chance to swat another Mistake in Literature . |
| 13 | But in an exclusive interview with Central South , Kevin Maxwell told our reporter Simon Garrett that his family should at least have been given the chance to buy the medals . |
| 14 | He must have been given the stuff in his food . ’ |
| 15 | He had this load of dead-weights working for him , old lasses that should have been given the boot years ago . |
| 16 | Forty-eight hours from now , she thought , staring at her pale reflection in the mirror , Anne Hammond would have been given the miracle of the chance of a new lease of life , while her own future seemed to stretch emptily ahead with nothing but work to fill it . |
| 17 | In 1543 , Knox joyfully recorded the effect of allowing the reading of scripture in the vernacular : ‘ Then might have been seen the Bible lying upon almost every gentleman 's table . |
| 18 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 19 | Bertha would have been sent the message that she could go hopping sideways — while she herself would have been told to get down the road and out of his sight . |
| 20 | I thought all treatment was free on the N H S , do I have to pay and they answer no , nor should you have been sent the bill although the hospital was within its rights to make a charge for the emergency treatment fee . |
| 21 | Many believe that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency , the party would have been saved the turmoil of the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 22 | 7.7.8 If at any time the Tenant shall be entitled to the benefit of any insurance on the Premises ( which is not effected or maintained in pursuance of any obligation contained in this Lease ) to apply all money received by virtue of such insurance in making good the loss or damage in respect of which such money shall have been received The landlord 's concern is to avoid the situation by which its insurers may refuse to pay the whole of the proceeds of insurance where the tenant has also taken out insurance cover for the premises , pursuant to a common provision found in insurance policies . |
| 23 | Indeed , if it were to be as firmly and clearly drawn as some of our mentors would wish , I can not help feeling that a number of leading cases in your Lordships ' House would never have been decided the way they were . |
| 24 | Yet , clearly , any account of the death of the author as arbiter of the final ‘ meaning ’ of a given text ( Barthes 1977 ; Foucault 1977a ) , is potentially matched by the important , though much less addressed , question of the transcendence of the industrial designer , who , as Forty ( 1986 ) has shown , should never have been ascribed the autonomy often assumed . |
| 25 | If the Liberal Democrats had voted with the Government rather than against , John Major would have been spared the embarrassment of defeat and the delay to the Maastricht Bill because of the consequential need for a report stage . |
| 26 | At least that way the remaining infants would be deloused , taught to read and write , fed , and Mrs Rattrie , by being separated from her husband — since paupers were not allowed to breed — would have been spared the trouble of having any more . |
| 27 | In the past , her pupils would have been shown the way to work this out , given the formula to memorise , and in many cases they would have forgotten it . |
| 28 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the overall result is richer than it would have been had the speaker just produced [ 14b ] , and , I believe , richer than it would have been had the speaker produced an alternative metaphor in which the pound was actually mentioned . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the overall result is richer than it would have been had the speaker just produced [ 14b ] , and , I believe , richer than it would have been had the speaker produced an alternative metaphor in which the pound was actually mentioned . |