Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ballot was dogged by controversy , when parents opposed to the school opting out claimed a propaganda war had been waged to promote the move . |
| 2 | She had been to see Enter the Dragon and started to tell him all about the code of kung fu as he hurried her upstairs . |
| 3 | Buy in the afternoon when your feet are swollen to simulate the effect of a run . |
| 4 | Altogether this book contains a wealth of information and I doubt whether it will be long before physicians are heard expounding the benefit of Liu Ye for tuberculosis , Jia Zhu Tao for its cardiotonic effects , Man Tao Luo as a general anaesthetic , or Yin Chen to treat hepatitis . |
| 5 | Designed by William Kent who 'd been commisioned to improve the landscape at Shotover , it 's an exotic , mysterious building , topped with battlements , pinnacles and turrets . |
| 6 | The core of this is to understand the delicate balance between feelings of affection , moral imperatives of duty , and calculations about personal advantage and disadvantage , and to understand how the particular sets of economic circumstances in which women and men are placed shape the character of that balance at any point in time . |
| 7 | Digital data occupy a central position in this applications field and a number of examples are given to illustrate the extent to which their development has been hampered or facilitated in various countries by the policies of the organizations with responsibility for digital data provision . |
| 8 | Overall findings of these analyses are given to assess the sensitivity of the main results to the choice of target group . |
| 9 | A slight ( and I mean very slight ) rhythmical easing back is all we are given to signify the transition from Allegro tempestoso to Moderato tranquillo ; albeit accompanied by a beautiful singing cantabile . |
| 10 | The Tories would like to repeat the mistakes of the 1950s , while Labour are determinted to repeat the mistake of renegotiation in the 1970s . |
| 11 | The European Parliament has also been lobbied to ban the import of all yellowfin tuna , and consumer boycotts are already underway in several European countries . |
| 12 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 13 | This brief survey has been intended to convey the flavour of the work on chaos in lasers and other all-optical systems which has exploded into the literature in the last five years or so . |
| 14 | It had originally been intended to limit the survey to two areas , but additional funding to enlarge the sample has been made available by the DTI , with whom the results will be discussed in detail . |
| 15 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 16 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
| 17 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 18 | The models are developed to simulate the stress train field induced on the living bone by the implant . |
| 19 | Graphics-based applications are developed using the company 's C-Scape screen handler , which includes application programming interfaces for running Windows 3 , Motif or Open Look at the front-end . |
| 20 | The standards that are developed to support the authenticity of a piece of information as an ‘ official record ’ require organizational commitment and formal recognition . |
| 21 | Much of Western psychotherapy draws , in various forms , on the catharsis model , whereby it is held as necessary for emotional health to come to terms with the repressed anger that is assumed to be inside the individual , and techniques are developed to make the individual confront these in a dramatic form . |
| 22 | Though the terms of the Barber bequest originally forbad the purchase of works painted after 1899 , this stipulation has since been altered to permit the acquisition of works of art at least thirty years old — an alteration which has made possible the purchase under the present Director , Professor Hamish Miles , of important pictures by Redon , Gwen John , Leger and Magritte . |
| 23 | Aye , coupled to a scum gangster , as though there was no difference between Yakobi and some undercity vermin — whereas Yakobi had been helping hold the line against such vicious filth , on behalf , yes ultimately on behalf , of those selfsame upper-spire revellers ! |
| 24 | This column argues the South African officials have been helping to professionalise the game by creating elite city clubs which cream off the best resources at the expense of the poorer , less fashionable sides . |
| 25 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 26 | Cheaply produced coal from Colombia is one of the main sources of imports which are helping to undermine the competitiveness of domestically produced coal in Britain . |
| 27 | Members of the Action Group are helping redress the balance with local initiatives to improve the area . |
| 28 | The Government are helping to support the idea that coal is a pollutant but that nuclear power is green friendly and that gas is green friendly . |
| 29 | Dr van der Merwe 's bones or , rather , those of the Crow Indians of the Ohio valley , are helping to trace the spread of maize across the Americas and establish how , by the time that the conquistadores arrived , it was powering not only the imperial civilisations of Mexico , but the modest villages of what was shortly to become New England . |
| 30 | You 've a job , you are helping to keep the fire at check , you are helping to extinguish the fire , it 's a good necessary job . |