Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in Royal Mail is working to give you the best possible service . |
| 2 | A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun . |
| 3 | His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life . |
| 4 | Everyone , save Babs Osborne , understood that her Polish lover was trying to give her the push . |
| 5 | The campaign is needed to fight what the People 's Daily says is ‘ a struggle between socialist and capitalist ideologies ’ . |
| 6 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 7 | A staff meeting is held to clarify what the plan is for and to outline the procedures to be adopted . |
| 8 | So far no action has been taken against travellers refusing requests to stub-out their cigarettes , and the campaign group is waiting to see what the next move will be . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is trying to guess what the market price will be in X years ' time and what proportion of the market will be accounted for by coal . |
| 10 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 11 | Because no bank is going to give you the money against the costs of the value of the property right ? |
| 12 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 13 | The dad will just give them the cheque , you know , they 've got thirty five pounds , pocket money just for , you know his dad 's going to give him the other . |
| 14 | Although we 're working er all the time to keep security as tight as we can at the John Radcliffe , er the scheme is going to give us the ability to challenge members of staff , legitimate members of staff , as we currently do , er and they will then have to provide , produce the card , er so we can then assess whether they are or are not a member of staff . |
| 15 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Ianthe was trying to imagine what the room would be like and where exactly the house would be but somehow did not like to ask for further details . |
| 17 | The whole House is waiting to hear what the Opposition 's policy is . |