Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fabric may be textured to give it a rougher surface , resembling canvas . |
| 2 | And next Thursday she 'll be heard playing it the length and breadth of the country . |
| 3 | He postures as a political activist , and the solidarity forced on the quintet by Shatov 's murder might be expected to make them a more effective instrument . |
| 4 | You need to know either the landlord or the tenant and , more important , he needs to know you before he can be expected to grant you the right to work on his land . |
| 5 | However , you will be expected to pay her a fee , as weddings do provide part of the local church organist 's salary . |
| 6 | This government have to be made to realize what a cruel blow it has struck on the very weakest sections of the community , the unemployed and the five and half million pensioners living in poverty . |
| 7 | ( Goodman , 1965 , p. 17 , p. 23 , cf. p. 14 ; Ayer , 1972 , pp. 120 f. , cf. p 118 ; Lewis , 1973 , p. 1 ; Mackie , 1973 , p. 64 ) As a look at the philosophy of language and its analyses of " meaning " or its uses of " semantics " quickly shows , much more would need to be done to give us a well-defined problem , but let us not linger . |
| 8 | At p625 he stated : A vendor selling property to a purchaser can not be said to lend him the unpaid portion of the purchase price . |
| 9 | That might plausibly be thought to take us no further than Wilde in Algiers in 1895 : ‘ The beggars here have profiles , so the problem of poverty is easily solved ’ ( Wilde , More Letters , 129 ) . |
| 10 | This way of describing interviews can be used to consider what the control is exercised over , and where the types of interviews can most usefully be employed . |
| 11 | With some pottery , chemical analysis can also be used to discover what the pottery vessel may have once contained or have been used for . |
| 12 | You will be whisked off to a photographer 's studio for a photo session where a top hairdresser , make-up artist and fashion stylist will be waiting to give you a fabulous makeover . |
| 13 | I feel that everything I have mentioned in this article is part of good mathematical teaching practice , e.g. that all young children should be allowed to formulate mathematical ideas in familiar language , that all children should be regarded as potential learners and that parents should be helped to understand what the school is trying to achieve . |
| 14 | You can keep the camera work very simple indeed — it can be set to give you the size of picture you want and does n't need to move . |
| 15 | Additional options include a talking calculator and a talking clock that can be set to tell you the time every fifteen minutes , half an hour or hour . |
| 16 | Additional options include a talking calculator and a talking clock that can be set to tell you the time every fifteen minutes , half an hour or hour . |
| 17 | In the late 1880s , he was able to make major improvements to this pen , and was to be found assembling them every evening in his hotel room . |
| 18 | ‘ If I may venture , ’ said Earl Robert deprecatingly , ‘ why should not the oracle that has spoken of two brothers be asked to send us a further sign ? |
| 19 | Finally , RACs should be asked to consider what the paper inelegantly described as ‘ resource availability and future coordination in respect of training for education management ’ , and consideration should be given to setting up a national advisory and consultative group . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , he was not prepared to take chances , so he checked and rechecked the security of the box and the store-room below in case vandals from a nearby village might be intending to pay him an unwelcome visit . |
| 21 | All these functions can be combined to give you the advantages of traditional cooking in less than half the normal cooking time . |
| 22 | Jerome had surely told all he knew , and if the burden he was carrying was even more than his due , yet he could be left to carry it a while longer . |
| 23 | If you have children , it will be sensible to tell them how lucky they are to have Granny coming to live with them , and they should be encouraged to give her a warm welcome . |
| 24 | The students should be encouraged to identify what the profit per bed is likely to be next year , i.e. based on the conditions at the end of the year it is likely to be only £10 per bed . |
| 25 | It seems increasingly likely that he will join Smith as assistant manager at Bristol City , although the Roker board could be forced to offer him the manager 's post if Sunderland win the FA Cup . |
| 26 | This way she could simply wash it each morning and let it dry naturally — start trying for styles and valuable minutes had to be wasted keeping them the way they were meant to be . |
| 27 | She went to the bread bin and seemed to be preparing to make herself a piece of toast . |
| 28 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 29 | ‘ You would n't be trying to sell me a ticket ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ By now , both the Americans and the Russians will be trying to discover who the Lucy Ghosts are , ’ Billie took over . |