Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [art] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just to invoke God 's name for what one chooses to do is no guarantee whatever that the thought , word or action really is God 's will , or is creative and positive as opposed to being destructive and negative . |
| 2 | In retrospect , this seems to have been the meeting which prompted the remaining employers to make their final concessions , but that was not clear at the time , and several of the orators , some of whom have already been quoted , loosed off broadsides against the women 's union on this occasion . |
| 3 | What Chaplin had needed was a clown whose loneliness , detachment , pathos , optimism , indestructibility , incorrigibility , and vulnerability would allow him to exploit all the humour and tragedy , love and violence that everyday life offered . |
| 4 | An act of God is usually held to have been the spark which ignited Ceauşescu 's ambitions as a town-planner and architect of communism and spurred him to act on them . |
| 5 | It is perhaps worth adding that the phases we have identified are the ones which the self-conscious discipline of International Relations itself regards as significant . |