Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 2 | While money has been used to reward them the intrinsic motivation of working in a harmonious team has been eliminated in many jobs ; for example , checkout operators in a supermarket , process workers in a manufacturing plant . |
| 3 | And next Thursday she 'll be heard playing it the length and breadth of the country . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With some pottery , chemical analysis can also be used to discover what the pottery vessel may have once contained or have been used for . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All these functions can be combined to give you the advantages of traditional cooking in less than half the normal cooking time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | This game can be repeated to make it the best of five . |
| 19 | I have been asked to send you the following extract from the Minutes of the Computing Sub-Group meeting held 24 March 1993 . |
| 20 | Thus we have a recipe for the dictatorship of the leadership of the ruling party , since they are presumed to know what the historical tasks of the proletariat are . |
| 21 | Seasonal work is so uncertain that the pickers are forced to work whatever the conditions just to make a few extra pesos . |
| 22 | When Ken called by later , he told me that he 'd been commanded to show me the sights the following afternoon . |
| 23 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 24 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 25 | Those who have seen the San Francisco 49ers ' Jerry Rice perform over the past eight years have been tempted to call him the most dangerous wide receiver in NFL history . |
| 26 | The Valor Revue is designed to give you the features you need for perfect results in the kitchen . |
| 27 | Then the letter containing the promise declared on is said to specify what the assistance would be , namely , £150 per annum during the uncle 's life , and until the plaintiffs professional income should be acknowledged by him to exceed 600 guineas ; and a further averment , that the plaintiff , relying upon his promise , without any revocation on the part of the uncle , did marry Ellen Nicholl . |
| 28 | The campaign is needed to fight what the People 's Daily says is ‘ a struggle between socialist and capitalist ideologies ’ . |
| 29 | An explanation in any mode will have a displaying function if it is produced to demonstrate what the speaker knows . |
| 30 | He slapped a £10 note on the table : " That 's all that 's left to last me the rest of the fortnight . " |