Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapters 2 and 3 are designed to help you on both counts . |
| 2 | Aerial spraying of the fungicide , which goes under the trade name of " Ronilan " , is now completely outlawed and farmers are forbidden to use it on any crop which is not peeled or shelled . |
| 3 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 4 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 7 | " I am the sentry who is never relieved " , he said at the opening of new rooms at the Military Museum in Madrid on 7 March 1946 , conveniently overlooking the fact that several unavailing attempts had been made to relieve him since 1939 . |
| 8 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 9 | We 're going to push them on this one , Clarac . |
| 10 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 11 | We 're going to do it in one move , ’ said the battalion commander Lt Col Alastair Duncan . |
| 12 | That 's a gallon per minute times forty minutes then cancel with gallons so they 're going to charge you for two hundred and forty gallons . |
| 13 | ‘ And now you 're going to kill me with that ? |
| 14 | Right , we 're going to hold you to this . |
| 15 | Now we 're going to share it with all of you . ’ |
| 16 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Have you come here to tell me that you 're going to fight me after all , now that Janice is no longer around ? ’ |
| 18 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |
| 19 | You 're trying to blind us with all your scientific talk , so that we do n't see what you 're getting at , and leave you alone till it 's too late … ’ ‘ … you 're a wicked , evil man , like that other woman said , flying in the face of Nature and God … ’ ‘ … and what about Einstein ? |
| 20 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 22 | It is not a difficult object , though telescopes are needed to show it at all well . |
| 23 | The Mercedes which had been promised to take them to All Saints ' Church , Deganwy , for the wedding on Saturday was sold . |
| 24 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 25 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 26 | ‘ The months ahead are going to be hard , for during them I am going to put you through much learning and discipline , ’ said Minch speaking in a strong and determined way . |
| 27 | I am going to tell you of two glimpses that have retained their clarity for me over the years while important and famous things have faded . |
| 28 | We discussed how we are going to divide it into two . |
| 29 | Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such . |
| 30 | ‘ There is no way we are going to support it with public money . |