Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign . |
| 2 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 3 | Next week , in recognition of this magnificent feat , Public NME will be devoting the entire page to care of your dust mask . |
| 4 | A source close to the Law Commission suggests that , in the case of contracted-out services , one legal remedy might be to sue the relevant agency for breach of contract . |
| 5 | The AA says fourteen thousand extra drivers a day will be using the existing motorway and its link roads by 1991 . |
| 6 | It will , in that sense , be using the existing form of uneven development to its maximum advantage . |
| 7 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 8 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 9 | Can he tell us whether and how he will be using the new marketing initiative of his Ministry to assist exports in the industry ? |
| 10 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 11 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 12 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 13 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 14 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 15 | If you are properly set up under Windows then you should have the ANSI.SYS driver in your CONFIG.SYS file , if not then it may well be worth installing it unless you are driving an HP LaserJet in which case you 'll be using the Roman-8 character set ; the Roman-8 codes are 247 , 248 and 245 respectively . |
| 16 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 17 | Says John : ‘ We hope that this approach will take the personality element out of the audit process and will ensure that we shall all be using the same measurement criteria . |
| 18 | Both scientist and engineer , biologist and doctor , chemist and agriculturist may be handling the same kind of data , but where the first intervenes in the world in order to understand it , the second has to understand the world in order to intervene in it . |
| 19 | If further size analysis is to be undertaken the best procedure is to use two identical sub-samples . |
| 20 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 21 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 22 | Well , it may be simulating the same sport , but it 's a totally different sort of game . |
| 23 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 24 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the Maritime school accept that our forces should be deployed primarily to support the First and Second Pillars , but argue that they must also be given the strategic mobility , equipment , and training to continue Britain 's global role as required by the Third Pillar . |
| 26 | The resignation of do Nascimento led to speculation that he would be given the key role of director-general of the national electoral commission , as the government came under increasing pressure from the USA , Russia and Portugal to hasten election preparations . |
| 27 | She recalled singing in both operas at Boosback as a 16-year-old and says she was amazed to be given the female lead in The Beggars ' and only three weeks in which to learn the words and music ! |
| 28 | For dividend announcements to be treated unambiguously as good signals , managers must be given the correct incentive to transmit a true signal even if the information is bad . |
| 29 | Staff must be given the extra support and training required . ’ |
| 30 | She asks why these dreams should ‘ be given the supreme power of enveloping the planet ( conquering the world ) , when neither those dreams nor man have shown the slightest capacity for solving the world 's real problems , only a brilliant capacity for displacing them ’ ( 389 ) . |