Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 2 | I 'd been so used to my , freedom . |
| 3 | One has to be ever-vigilant in feeding what I believe are now referred to as ‘ multicultural ’ gatherings . ’ |
| 4 | Erm they are Yorkshire and Humberside which I think is probably related to the strength of orders and demand in that region , East Midlands where they , where it 's sort of consistent with a trend erm in the last few surveys where they say that they have achieved modest price rises erm and where costs have not been falling , erm and also Wales . |
| 5 | But this was a term that I think was only applied to very few parents , on the whole , it really , it was not a sort of ‘ Parents are a nuisance ’ is not a general belief of , of teachers at all , not today . |
| 6 | I have been helpfully referred to a number of authorities relating to costs , beginning with the decision of the Court of Appeal in Scherer v. Counting Instruments Ltd . |
| 7 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 8 | If you just pull the plug it does n't have time to erase the temporary files it used and if you are using the latest SmartDrv utility you might even lose data that you thought was safely written to disk . |
| 9 | Now , sixty one of you said you liked it and you 've been meekly listening to this wha er how would you reply to , to all those various views ? |
| 10 | Now , with Liza gone , she felt she would be able to mourn Tom 's passing in her own quiet way for , despite his many failures as a husband , she had been deeply attached to him . |
| 11 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 12 | Erm yeah so say all you need is just access to that field so if they do change you can just |
| 13 | What is required , he wrote , is to find an outlet for those energies , for those needs and desires , so that they do not turn inward and rend you to pieces , an outlet , he wrote , but never to imagine that what we do is ever going to be an everlasting achievement . |
| 14 | How we live is inescapably linked to what we think about our origin and our destiny , even if we only discuss these mysteries late at night in the company of a few friends . |
| 15 | There are so many combinations of what to have , what to get , what we ca n't get , what we need really I think is , what we need is obviously going to be priority is n't it ? |
| 16 | The alternative they say is just stick to four star . |
| 17 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 18 | They had been miraculously wafted to this place after days without food or water in an open boat . |
| 19 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 20 | Despite the fact that all are senior and serious Labour figures , since we have been at war , they have been either confined to briefs or otherwise disciplined . |
| 21 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 22 | The Likud Prime Minister , Mr Yitzhak Shamir , proposed holding the elections last May , but he is resolutely opposed to any role for Mr Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation , which he insists is still committed to terrorism . |
| 23 | It has been mostly left to outsiders to remark that knowledge of the structure of DNA has made possible and has enforced a change of thinking about the nature of living things . |
| 24 | Outgoing FAXES are produced in much better quality than normal FAX machines as there is no ‘ scanning ’ of the original document — the only disadvantage is that you can not send an existing document , unless it has been previously sent to you , or you key it into Word processing or Desk Top Publishing . |
| 25 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 26 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 27 | Since then it has been brilliantly restored to as close to its original condition as can be . |
| 28 | The time spent on the herb garden is probably less than on any other part of the whole garden ( unless it has been deliberately planted to be labour-saving ) , but shortage of time is less of a problem than money , since the herb-garden is a hobby , undertaken for enjoyment and relaxation . |
| 29 | Now he stretched back in his chair and said : ‘ This proposed job — rumoured job , I should say — I suppose we 're entitled to ask whether it has been formally offered to you yet ? |
| 30 | The Israeli delegation claimed that they had been assured by Egypt that members of the PNC , which it claimed was directly related to and controlled by the PLO , would not be present in the negotiating room . |