Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara knew that she had not been intended to understand this remark , and was hurt by it ; but she was determined to show no embarrassment or anger and told herself that Dom João was probably as nervous as herself . |
| 2 | The material which has been gathered supports this contention and it also raises a number of issues concerning the needs of staff , as well as students , at a time when the total quality of the teaching/learning experience is assuming a certain prominence throughout the HE sector . |
| 3 | A computer algorithm , AGECAT , has now been developed to undertake this task ( Copeland et al . |
| 4 | An editorial committee has been formed to continue this project , and it has appointed Dr Malcolm editor of the next volumes in the series : an edition of Leviathan in both its original texts ( English and Latin ) , and what will be the first collected edition of Hobbes ' correspondence . |
| 5 | However , in this instance you do the company a disservice , since the harmoniser patches you refer to are intended to work this way . |
| 6 | Local bus or VL buses are designed to overcome this problem by running at the same speed as the processor . |
| 7 | Neither existing or potential finance departments ( Fig. 3.4 ) are designed to handle this funding structure . |
| 8 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 9 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 10 | The same number are expected to arrive this year . |
| 11 | Oil exports are expected to increase this year , but will soon fall back ; domestic consumption is soaring ( because the stuff is so cheap ) , and few new wells are being drilled in the forests . |
| 12 | The Server 60 and Server 80 are expected to ship this summer , when UK pricing will be announced . |
| 13 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 14 | The Canadian Pacific , in both its western and its eastern guises , had been designed to alleviate this dependence , to keep Canadian grain on Canadian metals and shipped through Canadian ports . |
| 15 | Emergency cooling systems are installed to remove this heat , but what if those failed as well ? |
| 16 | Empirical evidence has been presented to highlight this trend . |
| 17 | Are you satisfied that everything could have been done to prevent this man doing this sort of thing . |
| 18 | Women 's inferior economic position must affect their access to the better places , but no work has been done to substantiate this point . |
| 19 | Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom . |
| 20 | A modification has been done to correct this problem and further trials will shortly be carried out with the modified burner and using steam supplied from another locomotive through a flexible steam hose to atomize the fuel . |
| 21 | Such is the volume of material that a new office has been built to house this material at the home of Collectair ! |
| 22 | The risks and benefits of adding intravenous heparin to aspirin and thrombolysis are unknown and will remain so until trials are done to address this question adequately . |
| 23 | It has been decided to try this method out for the January meeting , posting out only to teachers not attending . |
| 24 | At the next table , nothing had been said to counter this barrage . |
| 25 | But some forms of enduring relationships have also been said to have this form . |
| 26 | Given a tree not in the base , determining which sequence of transformations may have been applied to generate this tree . |
| 27 | The work of M. Comte is unquestionably the greatest single effort that has been made to obviate this kind of danger . |
| 28 | They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . |
| 29 | ‘ They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . ’ |
| 30 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |