Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Global warming or any of the thousand other worries that come under the environmental heading may or may not have a sound scientific basis , but subjective judgement is still required to determine what priority to give them , and what rules , actions and expenditure are justified to relieve them . |
| 2 | Class of Year Three children The " Keeper " is a guard who has been blinded to stop him ever setting eyes on the magic jewels . |
| 3 | The remark had been intended to put him in his place , but it had come out sounding peevish and sensitive , as though she actually gave a damn about what he thought of her . |
| 4 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 5 | Even toxic wastes might be reclaimed in this way , provided they are treated to make them safe . |
| 6 | But be warned : they may grow tall and leggy — plants are treated to make them short and bushy for one season . |
| 7 | Scuba diving is a very complex sport and you are required to learn many aspects of the sport all of which are vital for example , pressure equalization , maintenance of equipment , assembling the equipment , nitrogen narcosis , decompression sickness and use of dive tables misunderstandig or neglecting any of these can result in very serious injuries or paralysis or even death you also learn practical skills like mask clearing to a timed diver low compass navigation must also be mastered and a theory and practical tests are undertaken to show you are competent at scuba diving . |
| 8 | The document which has been leaked says they did n't spot the danger in time , and the noise from the disco on the Marchioness prevented the alarm being raised . |
| 9 | Alec Bedser 's comment soon afterwards — that Botham would have been sacked had he not resigned — is recalled with contempt . |
| 10 | As stated a few paragraphs higher , the rules for self-employed pension plans have been altered to bring them in line with other personal pensions . |
| 11 | This is manifested in a strong desire to break away from corporate environments seen as financially restrictive , especially those businesses which are obviously very profitable but where the profits are not fairly shared out among those who are helping to generate them . |
| 12 | Indeed , Marx argued that in most cases , because the social system is based on exploitation , people have to be consciously unaware of the basis of society if they are to continue working it . |
| 13 | The transfer is made non-stop , during which the levels of synchronised sound and music are adjusted to mix them in and out as required . |
| 14 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 15 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |
| 16 | On another occasion , this suspicion might have been calculated to cripple me with a sense of my own worthlessness . |
| 17 | Philip Burton 's early life had been calculated to bring him up as ‘ a spotless youth ’ . |
| 18 | He could have been forgiven had he waxed much more lyrical . |
| 19 | So methods have been developed to dissuade you from wandering off to somebody else 's cash register . |
| 20 | This payroll management service has been developed to enable us to convert salaries , wages and pensions from gross to net pay in accordance with statutory requirements . |
| 21 | Many special instruments have been developed to help us to find out about such things as the pressure of air in the lungs and the vocal tract , the flow of air out of the mouth and nose , the opening and closing of the vocal folds and of the soft palate , and the movement of articulators like the lips and the lower jaw . |
| 22 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 23 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 24 | There was the training manual used by the managers to deliver the workshop , plus the training they had been given to deliver it . |
| 25 | Then the boy said , very formally : ‘ I am honoured to meet you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I am honoured to meet you , the brightest gem here . ’ |
| 27 | so he was dead annoyed with it , all week I 've been struggling to get him to bed |
| 28 | Under the influence of Quakers , Benthamites and others the savage penal code had been amended to give it a reformative , as well as a retributive , purpose . |
| 29 | I can not even press for its performance , since a conspiracy has been formed to produce it , if it must be produced , extremely badly and thus ruin it . |
| 30 | In the illustration below you can see a number of everyday items that have been inked to show you how they look in print form . |