Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of becoming a mother has to be understood in a personal and social context which takes account of predisposing factors such as poor housing , an unsupportive marriage , lack of employment and financial difficulties . |
| 2 | If the competing investments are similar , say a choice has to be made between proposals for new products in the same product range , the complexity of DCF methods may not be justified . |
| 3 | If the competing investments are similar , say a choice has to be made between proposals for new products in the same product range , the complexity of DCF methods may not be justified . |
| 4 | Lord Acton , writing much later in a significant nationalist metaphor , deplored a partition which created a nation demanding to be united in a State , ‘ a soul , as it were , wandering in search of a body in which to begin life over again ’ . |
| 5 | Dodman was driving a van found to be loaded with the stolen property . |
| 6 | Before the dredged dock and diesel hydraulic lift was installed a crane had to be hired for each lift out of , and each life back into , the water , at considerable expense . |
| 7 | His stepfather , Mr Roger Cager , said yesterday that after the operation Simon had been able to pass a medical to train to be a policeman . |
| 8 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |
| 9 | Becoming an actor has to be thought of in realistic terms right from the beginning and all possible problems do need to be faced . |
| 10 | At an ideological level , the purposes of segregated education systems were spelled out in the Bantu Education Act of 1953 , which created an education proclaimed to be ‘ appropriate ’ to the limited prospects for black people under apartheid . |
| 11 | A West German journalist who interviewed a man claiming to be an IRA terrorist won a court ruling last week upholding his right to protect his sources and forbidding the federal prosecutor 's office from questioning him . |
| 12 | Randolph Henry Ash had written a poem purporting to be spoken by a Digger in Putney . |
| 13 | But it would be anachronistic to think of Western Europe around c .700 as homogeneous Western , Christian , Latin culture , shared among nations with any definite sense of forming a community aspiring to be ‘ Western Christendom ’ . |
| 14 | LIFESPAN will automatically mail a user deemed to be responsible for the SPR from the following list ( in the order specified ) : — |
| 15 | One of her greatest successes has been Manfred Karge 's one-woman play Man to Man , in which she played a woman pretending to be a man . |
| 16 | The IRA men parked a car believed to be containing a bomb near to a place where soldiers from the Royal Anglian Regiment usually assembled before the changing of their guard . |
| 17 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 18 | The classic origin of the requirement to hear a party alleged to be in default before reaching a decision is in Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works ( 1863 ) 14 C.B.N.S. 180 . |
| 19 | Memory for parking a car appears to be generally very good at least in allowing the driver to specify its current location several hours later . |
| 20 | The overall style of the loudspeaker remains much as before but the visual appeal has been strengthened with the use of real wood side mouldings , contoured , bevelled cabinet edges and an attractive new plinth which now includes a compartment intended to be filled with lead shot or sand to enhance stability . |
| 21 | The probability of correctly recalling a junction appears to be related to many of the same things as subjective risk — traffic seen , time spent at the junction , objective and estimated risk . |
| 22 | ( In the US , HarperCollins paid a figure reported to be between £14m and £18m for rights outside the UK in As the Crow Flies , the next novel and a volume of short stories . ) |
| 23 | Could they have got an actor to pretend to be my dad ? |
| 24 | Each round the character must make a T test to be able to hold his breath . |
| 25 | The story of Mr Lock 's mind-bending trip was told at Bristol Family and Youth Court yesterday , when the 16-year-old girl , who can not be named , denied unlawfully administering a poison alleged to be LSD with intent to injure , aggrieve or annoy on May 13 . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean a man pretended to be Jesus ? ’ said Gabriel incredulously . |
| 27 | EASTERN Electricity is sponsoring a team hoping to be the first Britons to conquer the world 's second highest mountain and survive . |
| 28 | The EC is producing a regulation intended to be a management tool for the evaluation and improvement of environmental performance with the provision of relevant information to the public . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that he has been involved in more intimidating tackles than most professionals of his generation , he thinks a line has to be drawn between hard edged professionalism and pathological violence . |
| 30 | Union officials caused an outcry yesterday when they produced a document claimed to be a national British Rail hit list of lines which would close under privatisation . |