Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not expected to be such a kind of girl ; she had watched this kind of girl for years ( the lips discreetly reddened , the loud laughter on the school bus , the tossing of long hair beneath rakish berets , the swinging of hips , the whispering in the garden ) but she had never expected to become one . |
| 2 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 3 | It 's expected to be some weeks before all the shops damaged in the arson attack can be re-opened . |
| 4 | The former has now left the SVR and the latter is due to do so in early June , the last chance to sample the flavour of an unrebuilt Bulleid Pacific on ‘ the Valley ’ is expected to be this weekend . |
| 5 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 6 | Whereas East Anglia might have become a second power base in the early 1470s , Gloucester 's Welsh lands were never expected to be more than peripheral . |
| 7 | The trade surplus was now expected to be less than US$10,000 million for the year compared to $16,000 million for 1989 ( US$1.00=129.826 cruzeiros as at Nov. 29 , 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall . |
| 9 | The advantages to management of so doing are claimed to be that wage costs are reduced , that the relatively powerful skilled craft union is replaced by the weaker general union , and , perhaps most importantly , management can exercise much tighter control over what happens on the shop-floor . |
| 10 | Claimed to be more user friendly is a product from Interpet , Pond Balance , which is said to be environmentally safe and actually encourage plant growth . |
| 11 | The second view is that Judas told the chief priests that Jesus had claimed to be some sort of Messiah ; perhaps one who would lead a rebellion against the Romans . |
| 12 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 13 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 14 | The critical aspect to Coal Measures source potential along the flanks of the London-Brabant Massif is considered to be that of maturity and generation timing ( see Eames 1975 and Lutz et al. 1975 ) . |
| 15 | The relevant indifference curve may be considered to be that of a ‘ representative voter ’ . |
| 16 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 17 | This is one of the main reasons why it is now considered to be such an important protective factor in saving us from diseases of the bowel , like cancer . |
| 18 | Surprisingly , sore breasts , spots , bloatedness and food cravings — symptoms commonly associated with PMS — are not considered to be such severe problems . |
| 19 | General agreement to minimize trade and currency restrictions , although not possible at first , was also considered to be another essential step in this direction . |
| 20 | ( Explicit tests are considered to be those in which the ability under investigation is directly requested , whereas in implicit tests the capacity of interest is only involved as an apparently incidental aspect to the procedure . ) |
| 21 | When the body of one specimen was first brought from Australia to Britain in 1798 , it was considered to be some kind of taxidermist 's hoax — a mixture of bird and mammal — which , to some extent , it is . |
| 22 | As the war progressed beauty products became virtually unobtainable and a healthy mind and body were considered to be more of an asset to the war office , to the war effort , than a pretty face and soft skin . |
| 23 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 24 | Links with parents and with associated schools — which were reported to be few and far between — could have been developed in this situation . |
| 25 | A street is also deemed to be any place of public resort or recreation ground belonging to , or under the control of the local authority and any unfenced ground adjoining or abutting upon any street in an urban district ( Section 81 Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907 ) . |
| 26 | The futility of their efforts is deemed to be enough to teach them the lessons they need to learn . |
| 27 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 28 | Minutes were felt to be factors in these results , whereas in the Potteries hours , or even days at times , were hardly felt to be such factors . |
| 29 | The kudos of the job , the implied associations and the admiration of others are felt to be more than enough compensation . |
| 30 | And I 'm not really prepared to be that … |