Example sentences of "be [verb] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad says we should all be reviewing what we give to the Lord 's work . |
| 2 | The group affect around one in every 500 children born with around 1,200 births in 1982 ; the numbers of such births are falling partly because they are identifiable in screening programmes , and the mothers are taking what they consider to be appropriate actions , and partly due to higher standards of antenatal care . |
| 3 | One technique is to fit the IUD while a woman is being given what she believes to be a routine pelvic examination . |
| 4 | No doubt you were imagining what you take to be my imaginings about Gillian 's vestments : a sable swirl out of Boris Godounov , colours by Rimsky , light summer prints by the infant Rossini , gay accessories by Poulenc … |
| 5 | ‘ And who 's to know what I do to you out here in the middle of nowhere ? ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile Customs and Excise is celebrating what it believes to be a significant blow to the drugs trade . |
| 7 | She was wearing what she considered to be an ageless garment — a hip-length coat of black watered taffeta ; the shoulders were rather too narrow and too sharply defined to be precisely fashionable , but the material was of most superior quality . |
| 8 | ‘ You sell hand-painted tiles , ’ he pronounced , and this time there could be no doubt that he was stating what he knew to be a fact . |
| 9 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |