Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals . |
| 32 | The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals . |
| 33 | The Association has continued to be active since 1946 , monitoring the progress of new towns and seeking to further the principles and practice of good planning . |
| 34 | Margaret Flynn was expelled 3 years ago , but has continued to be active in support of the saboteurs . |
| 35 | The Senegalese political system has continued to be robust in spite of the country 's current grave economic problems , and in spite of secessionist pressures in the Casimance , the area of Senegal south of the Gambia . |
| 36 | This has continued to be true of many aspects of social security policy . |
| 37 | Marian 's work now suits her particularly well and in an effort to redress some of the solicitor 's problems described above she has begun to be involved in advocacy training for solicitors assisting in courses run by the College of Law — helping others towards the successful career which she demonstrates is possible from whatever your legal origins . |
| 38 | I got to remember to be careful with the fire . |
| 39 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 40 | ‘ Perhaps you would help me up on deck ? ’ she ventured expectantly , adding with a bewitchingly brief smile , ‘ I 'd hoped to be alone for a while . ’ |
| 41 | If , however , local authorities are going to continue to be responsible for personal social services , then they need to look at alternative methods of service organisation and delivery . |
| 42 | I was going to apologize for being stupid on Sunday when you both disappeared . |
| 43 | I was going to apologise for being stupid on Sunday when you both disappeared . |
| 44 | ‘ I would n't dare try to be optimistic in this kind of situation , ’ he said . |
| 45 | To make the G M B relevant advice is going to have to be available over the telephone . |
| 46 | I was going to have to be careful from now on . |
| 47 | He needs to , but he 's got to want to be able to that , and if he does then he 'll learn it , he 'll understand that putting brackets round the two and the one means do that first . |
| 48 | In the 1980s attention was drawn to the small bowel , where the secretory and motor responses to stress seem to be different in IBS patients . |
| 49 | I think that the adjective moralistic is really an unkind way of protesting at the fact that she seems to continue to be interested in moral themes which are often associated with Christianity , even if she has got rid of actual orthodox commitment to Christianity itself . |
| 50 | I decided to try to be open for once in my life . |
| 51 | But Charlotte would have needed to be alone with him , decks cleared of their differences , for certainty on the point . |
| 52 | On the other hand , without some active energy from the man , what would she ever have found to be interested in ? |
| 53 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 54 | It is often argued that if a child learned how to recode unfamiliar letter strings — printed words not previously encountered — into a phonological form , this would permit reading to be parasitic on an already established ability to access the semantics of a word from its phonology . |
| 55 | Certainly , by now , we should have learned to be cautious about simplified statements which attempt to outline the central features of ‘ the family in modern society ’ . |
| 56 | However , many of the 1.3 million recipients who would have ceased to be eligible for supplementary benefit were receiving what is called certificated housing benefit . |
| 57 | In the ancient world slaves had been most commonly used as domestic servants and artisans , and this may well have continued to be true in the Middle Ages . |
| 58 | He still wanted her body , there was no way he could disguise that , and she , well , she would have to learn to be content with whatever crumbs he was prepared to let fall from his table . |
| 59 | When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- ‘ Sharkey ’ is on : no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same . |
| 60 | She can not have failed to be aware of the situation as the land reeked of the smells and both water and land were often strikingly coloured . |