Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consultancy work in engineering geology Engineering geological consultancy work continues to be carried out for clients in the private and public sectors . |
| 2 | There 's all that bucket work waiting to be done , eh , the bucket work |
| 3 | One interpretation was based on the fact that in each case memory appeared to be best for situations which accorded with the subjects ’ expectations about the junction , an attempt to test this was made by considering subjects ’ ratings for how normal the situation was . |
| 4 | There is , first , the relationship between rich and poor nations , which may be conceived in terms of neo-imperialism and dependency ( but in that case imperialism has to be seen in a wider perspective than that which treats it exclusively as a stage in the development of capitalism , important though this latter process is ) , or in terms of the current preoccupation with a ‘ North-South dialogue ’ , which is today more a confrontation than a dialogue . |
| 5 | If European Parliament elections continue to be treated semi-frivolously , such extremists as Mr Le Pen will be over-represented in Strasbourg . |
| 6 | Erm , I could n't agree more , er with er what Dave was saying , erm that er the whole operation of that bonus scheme needs to be thoroughly examined with British Gas . |
| 7 | Mrs Purry generally turns up trumps , ’ he added , surprised at the rather strange effect Penelope seemed to be having on his conversation . |
| 8 | ‘ That lumbar puncture seems to be taking them a long time . ’ |
| 9 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 10 | Er who ran bus services from Gala to Selkirk and Melrose and er we sold out to them because we , the other side of the business where the private car side seemed to be growing . |
| 11 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126° and each nip bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 12 | On Nov. 12 Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said to be concerned about alienating international opinion were quoted in Tokyo as saying that they would press the government " to think carefully about our future plans " to transport more plutonium to Japan over the next decade . |
| 13 | Some computer inventions have to be protected by copyright rather than patents . |
| 14 | Some admission money had to be taken ‘ on account ’ , so the club could n't pay Fulham their due straight away . |
| 15 | Eventually a further final , concurrent budget resolution has to be voted on and submitted for the president 's signature , theoretically in time for the beginning of the financial year on 1 October . |
| 16 | As a measure of how leaky was the colander , even in the exercise of maximum security , a Movietone newsreel van and a Daily Express reporter had to be shooed away from Euston next morning before he could be transferred to the Tower of London . |
| 17 | The services of BGS 's Marine Operations Group continued to be in demand by civil-engineering and mineral-extraction firms , and by the hydrocarbons and power industries . |
| 18 | At some of the sessions teachers protested that the methods used when being observed were a product of the artificiality of the situation and that in some cases pupils seemed to be reluctant to participate orally when advisers were present . |
| 19 | Studies of individual towns suggest that they were severely hit , that properties were deserted and that in some cases parishes had to be united , as the existing ones were too poor to maintain the services of the Church ( 77 , pp.286–8 ) . |
| 20 | Although some Iraqi pockets remained , by the evening of Feb. 26 the Kuwaiti resistance movement claimed to be in control of Kuwait City . |
| 21 | This foot changeover has to be repeated hundreds of times before any kind of perfection is achieved . |
| 22 | The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset . |
| 23 | In the area of graphical methods as well as in other areas of the interface between computing science and statistics , a great deal of exciting research work remains to be done . |
| 24 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 25 | As soon as the barriers to entry in this type of regulatory regime are broken down and outside membership is allowed , the effectiveness of self-regulation and the ability to police members on the old club principle tends to be eroded . |
| 26 | The second predicted alpha-helix within the Oct-1 POU homeodomain appears to be critical for VP16 interaction ( 8 ) . |
| 27 | This side effect seems to be strain dependent . |
| 28 | From this standpoint racism appears to be a matter of individual prejudice which , even when institutionalized , is ultimately sustained by the attitudes and actions of racists . |
| 29 | Accordingly , the regular demand and supply of currencies in the foreign exchange markets tended to be dominated by current account transactions , which were expanding quite rapidly as international trade grew faster than domestic growth rates . |
| 30 | The operations of this scientific management structure itself need to be managed , and so a further management hierarchy has to be erected on top of the workshop-based organisation structure to manage the ‘ scientific managers ’ . |