Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [conj] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tremendous variation in the experiences of First , Second and Third World countries in terms of income , population , foreign trade , resources , quality of life and blocs might lead the faint-hearted to conclude that the global system either does not exist or that it is so hopelessly complex that there is no point in trying to conceptualize it at all . |
| 2 | They will not tell you whether a child is going to be a good citizen , when he 's nice to know or whether he 's well motivated . |
| 3 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 4 | ESP felt that a third option should be available — to clean and test the pumps , to see if they needed to be repaired or whether they were still usable . |
| 5 | I told him not to worry and that I was quite impressed and would be interested in managing the band . |
| 6 | However , as terraces are usually degraded and as it is usually extremely difficult to determine their precise limits , a degree of accuracy lower than that required for the long profiles of streams is permissible . |
| 7 | Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket . |
| 8 | Overall , a healthy plurality of different initiatives is likely to arise if a strong voluntary sector grasps the opportunity with which it is currently presented and if it is actively supported by the statutory authorities . |
| 9 | ‘ If firms want to take it seriously , they 'll need to take a long hard look at what sort of performance objectives are being applied and whether they are actually appropriate . |
| 10 | I think it 's really really well written and and I 'm very happy about it because I 've got it out of my system because when I first started that that was my aim . |
| 11 | It 's your job to ensure that all difficulties are minimised and that everyone is as happy as can be . ’ |
| 12 | Fagin inspected the handkerchieves and told the two boys that they were extremely well made and that he was very pleased with their work . |
| 13 | These are of course the history teacher 's daily stock in trade , often taken for granted but when we are publicly called upon to justify the spending of taxpayers ' money on our subject , the most obvious may well be one of the strongest arguments for the teaching of history to all young people to the age of 16 . |
| 14 | As I understand it , the Sunday Times is not objecting , primarily , to the fact that people have been left out , but that there were not sufficient young ( meaning under 40 ) novelists to include and that there was too much emphasis on the rather elderly young like Ben Okri , Kazuo Ishiguro and Iain Banks , who are well enough established . |
| 15 | The industry will be standing by gauging the heartiness of their handshakes and the sincerity of their smiles trying to decide whether the hatchet really is being buried or whether it 's merely a Christmas truce . |
| 16 | I sang , pondering whether my thanks were as spontaneous as I had thought or whether I was just too scared to complain . |
| 17 | Grateful to the minister for that reply but would he not agree with me that where local authorities erm local chambers of commerce and trades councils er and his own department of employment , are already working well together with good small initiatives , to put upon them English Estates , TECs , British coal enterprise er is in fact to do precisely what he does not advocate to make a mushrooming of bureaucracy and will he not undertake to evaluate these initiative to see if they really do work or whether they 're just providing jobs for the boys . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most important criticism of this approach is that much of it is essentially speculation about how language development might occur and that there is relatively little conclusive evidence that this is indeed how young children do , in fact , master language . |
| 19 | One of the issues for us here is who does this work and whether it is equitably distributed between different family members . |
| 20 | All I did is I look at what I 've got and if it 's just a single term like that |
| 21 | ‘ I went to look and though it was pretty dark I could see enough . |
| 22 | Maybe he wintered in the area , attempting to ensure the loyalty of the West Saxon heartland where Æthelred 's son Eadwig the ætheling may have recently returned and died and where there was soon to be difficulty , for in 1019 one of his men , Agemund , received a Dorset estate by S 955 , and the dubious Exeter charter S 954 bears the same date . |
| 23 | Our plans for the future are to ensure this strength is preserved and that we are fully equipped to meet changing conditions . |
| 24 | As soon as the operation has been performed and while they are still bleeding , the young warriors are placed on this mukula log . |
| 25 | ‘ I know that the National Health has n't got the money it would like but when it 's so important , I think it should be done . |
| 26 | In a general practice in north Edinburgh , between 1987 and 1989 , 265 injecting drug users were asked if they had any children and , if so , when they had been born and where they were currently living . |
| 27 | Those parents helping in school can sometimes feel that their goodwill is being abused and that they are little more than washers of paint pots and menders of broken books . |
| 28 | He was seldom in the house except to eat or sleep and when he was all he ever did was yell , ‘ Get the tea . |
| 29 | To tell you what to do but it 's also knowing how to do it , because sometimes especially if we knew in the truth , we do n't always know what to do and if we 're very young you see , we 're , it 's , it 's one |
| 30 | ‘ I know it 's a terribly Yank thing to do but while I 'm here , perhaps we could go and do some antique shops , yes ? ’ |