Example sentences of "thing [vb mod] be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in some cases evidence that seems to point to one of these things may be rejected on the grounds that the phenomenon is impossible . |
| 2 | But certain things should be done as a matter of course . |
| 3 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 4 | It would be proof that things could be run in an informal , creative and non-materialistic way . |
| 5 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 6 | And can you give an indication of how quickly these things could be ordered in an emergency ? |
| 7 | Quite a number of things could be bought for a halfpenny — Barretts Sherbet Fountains with liquorice straws , Sherbet Dabs with their lump of toffee on a stick , Liquorice Ropes , Humbugs , Spearmint Lumps , Aniseed Balls were 20 for a penny . |
| 8 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 9 | Things will be changing for the next series , there 'll be more games and more gladiators . |
| 10 | Moreover , these things will be brought into the present not as just any history or teaching , but as that through which God is supremely known . |
| 11 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 12 | Money is used as a common denominator in which the value of things can be expressed in the market . |
| 13 | You have plenty of good ideas about how things can be changed for the better or how your home can be improved , modernised or beautified . |
| 14 | The best way to capture the Scottish public imagination for a Scottish parliament is to remind them how much things can be improved on the jobs scene because the Scottish parliament will be taking the decisions presently taken by the Westminster Parliament . ’ |
| 15 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 16 | ( Of course , much the same thing could be said of every American orchestra . |
| 17 | Apparently the thing will be based on a still-unannounced workstation , a Tsunami possibly . |
| 18 | The thing will be aimed at the corporate and commercial transaction processing markets and will run SQL relational databases like Oracle and Ingres when it comes to market in 1994 or 1995 . |
| 19 | the real thing can be recognised by the incredible number of bites you get in such short time . |
| 20 | Much the same thing can be said of the to infinitive denoting something which is actualized as a consequence of causation ( cause , force , occasion , get , order , tell ) , assistance ( help ) , discovery ( find ) , daring , etc . |
| 21 | I think the management thing can be addressed in a different way erm excuse me erm , oh I 've lost my thread now but , oh yeah that 's right |