Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 I want our impact here to be the minimum .
2 I have to tell the house I have in fact put my name forward to be considered as a candidate to stand to stand for Conservative
3 Here she was , all alone in the wildly romantic snow-covered Scottish mountains with a man most women would give their eye-teeth simply to be in the same room with , and her only wish was to get away from him .
4 Educating the people is vitally important too — because unless families understand why immunisation is so important , they will not bring their children forward to be vaccinated .
5 How many people have carefully bottled their beer only to be woken in the middle of the night by the sound of exploding corks ?
6 On Oct. 30 the party declared its assets currently to be worth DM4,000 million as result of increases in property values .
7 In one sense you could say that we begin our lives in the wheelchair of the womb ; we begin our lives literally by being carried around .
8 SMOOTH TV frontman Frank Bough lost his cool yesterday after being named in kinky sex allegations splashed across a Sunday newspaper — for the second time in his career .
9 A 27-year-old man was led from the dock protesting his innocence yesterday after being refused bail on a charge of looting during the Llandudno floods .
10 Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost .
11 On the other hand it must be remembered that a more rapid turnover of light industry ( production of essential articles ) permits its capital also to be used to build up heavy industry , whilst developing light industry at the same time .
12 Cuckoo-bees make their way into the nests of other kinds of bees and leave their eggs there to be tended and reared by others .
13 But Mize pushed his approach out to the right and had to get his chip close to be in with a chance of halving the hole .
14 It is perfectly possible to get your message across without being so histrionic .
15 I had warned my men overnight to be prepared for an early start , and a little before sunrise , leaving them to pack up and follow me , I said good-bye to my friends at Dalkania and started on the two-mile climb to the forest road on the ridge above … .
16 Personally , I prefer my fingerboards either to be bound with something you can see or left plain as nature intended , but for some reason Saga obviously like their fret-ends disguised .
17 It may train its advisers sufficiently to be able to give para-legal advice in those cases which do not require professional assistance ; it may refer the client to a solicitor ; it may arrange a rota scheme whereby a solicitor attends at the CAB office to see clients ; it may try to appoint its own solicitor .
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