Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to be drawing most of those people out . |
| 2 | I reckon I 'll be using some of that , I 'm , I 'm gon na use I 've got less than you |
| 3 | Marx believed that the history of human societies was to be explained first of all by the nature of man as an animal who had to obtain a living from his geographical environment , which meant not only staying alive , but also being able to look after one 's offspring until they could look after themselves . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The consent of the Secretary of State may be given in respect of a particular disposal of property or of disposals of any class or description and may be given subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine . |
| 5 | It will be given free to any donor of at least £500 to the Magdalen Bridge Appeal Fund . |
| 6 | It was resolved that the attendance of the physician and the surgeons should be given free of all expense to the institution , and that each should be allowed the privileges of a governor by virtue of their appointments . |
| 7 | I understand that they got 36.5 per cent of the total shareholding in the end , but Purchase and Szell say that they 'll be unloading some of those and that they 'll probably end up with about 20 per cent . |
| 8 | We shall be seeing more of this yacht , which has already been chosen as the class for the Tour de France à la Voile race in 1992/93 . |
| 9 | To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes . |
| 10 | This is of course not valid near the ends but if the solenoid is long enough , eqn ( 3.71 ) may be regarded valid for most of its length . |
| 11 | For the evangelistic gift to emerge within the life of the local church , evangelism must be placed high on that church 's list of priorities . |
| 12 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 13 | shall also cause the trade mark registration symbol to be placed next to such of the Trade Marks as are registered from time to time throughout the world . |
| 14 | That is simply because it has to be that low if some of these houses are to be considered habitable at all , and if others are to be inhabited by two , or often by three , families at the same time . |
| 15 | In China would be considered rhematic in both formulations ( unless stress is used to signal a difference in its thematic/rhematic status ) . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal decided that no child could be considered competent in that situation . |
| 17 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 18 | With reference to the networks under study , the samples can not be considered random as such , because it is not true that all users in the township during the prevalence period had an equal chance of being selected . |
| 19 | Two of these strategies directly relate to the topics to be considered next in this chapter , namely ( 2 ) the provision of facilities ( rural service provision ) and ( 1 ) socioeconomic conditions ( rural deprivation ) and so attention is now turned to rural service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 20 | The problem of meeting the probable needs and wishes of the wider constituency which might now be considered eligible for some sort of formal association with the University after obtaining a qualification therefore needs to be addressed . |
| 21 | It will be clear from the discussion in the previous two sections on prey size and availability that the species content of prey assemblages can not be considered diagnostic of any particular predator . |
| 22 | Of the attempts to provide writers with a PC-based style analyser , standard commercial channels proffer a few but their cost may be considered inordinate for such a duty and so one looks to shareware offerings because they are frequently better buys . |
| 23 | Publishers are only now becoming aware of many of the new problems that producing and distributing computer programs will present , and publication methods for such material must be considered experimental at this stage . |
| 24 | Also strewn across the complicated ceiling with the prism ports , obscuring whole sections of the barrelled structure , fume ducts writhed like immense square-flanked metal snakes , their grilled , barred mouths sucking the kitchens ' vapours away to be vented high in some converted turret . |
| 25 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 26 | ( iii ) Freedom from incumbrancesthe land shall be enjoyed free from any incumbrances other than those subject to which the conveyance is expressly made . |
| 27 | the fuller report and the contact with the parents should be happening prior to that stage . |
| 28 | It must not be forgotten that for this three year period the patient was being cared for in two hospitals and in Hunstead Park by a full range of no doubt dedicated professions . |
| 29 | The rain at this end of the island tends to die off towards the end of March , but it has certainly damaged pitches including that at the Government Stadium , which Paterson reckoned would be deemed unplayable by most clubs in Scotland . |
| 30 | After a five week training course the crews will be deemed qualified for most low-level missions . |