Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If British Naval Intelligence heard nothing from her , they 'd presume the Dane was hostile , and the raid would go ahead as planned . |
| 2 | The total effort required to design and build the system was of the order of fourteen man years . |
| 3 | When the golf-mad queen returned to Britain from France after her marriage to the Dauphin , later Francis II , her entourage included cadres of pages referred to as cadets , whose job it was to assist and answer the Queen 's every whim . |
| 4 | In artificial selection , the chosen end , for which the race is being fitted , does not elicit the variation being selected . |
| 5 | In Sibartie [ 1983 ] Crim LR 470 , the Court of Appeal held that showing a season ticket which did not cover the journey was attempting to obtain an exemption from liability . |
| 6 | I mean it 's a case of of what time we 'd make the journey is n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ The guys who could make the breakthrough are in the 15–17 age bracket . |
| 8 | The company is very eco-conscious and Tupperware products which do not make the mark are recycled . |
| 9 | This would make the sloth 's countershading redundant . |
| 10 | The rag I read mentioned Leeds might switch their attention to Alan Mclaren of Hearts if they ca n't lower the price being asked for 30-year-old Jobson . |
| 11 | The more secondary themes that are indexed in a document , the more documents that will be retrieved , but in many instances these will treat the topic being sought only as a subsidiary subject and so be judged as only marginally relevant . |
| 12 | Well they do n't want the queen 's English they want blooming in fact up er |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps they may think the sport is in a period of relative driving mediocrity , ’ answered Jackie . |
| 14 | yeah definitely , although that essay I did today I think is really good , it 's probably the best one I 've ever written the grammar 's good , I do n't know whether , I do n't think the content 's particularly thrilling , but the grammar 's good |
| 15 | I do n't think the keeper was entitled to do that was he ? |
| 16 | Do n't you think the kitchen is more suitable for him ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So you do n't think the marriage was a great success ? ’ |
| 18 | With the Jacob/Esau narratives we begin to see it being lost sight of , though the descriptions of Jacob 's cruelty and deceitfulness , and the contrast made with Esau 's generosity , make us think the compiler was protesting against the direction in which his material was leading him . |
| 19 | ‘ Do you think the wheat is safe now ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So what d' you think the Admiral was up to ? |
| 21 | So what did you think the poem was about ? |
| 22 | Astronomers tend to always think the probability is high because they think there are so many sites on which life could develop , but the biologists take completely the opposite view , that there are so many evolutionary pathways that lead to biological dead ends , that this outweighs the number of sites on which life could develop . |
| 23 | Subject : What the F ! do you think the subject is |
| 24 | Subject : What do you fuckin' think the subject is about . |
| 25 | I do n't think the date was due actually was , was n't it ? |
| 26 | It 's so all railwaymen along the way do n't think the Canadian is running thirty minutes early . ’ |
| 27 | How do you think the system is working out at present ? ’ |
| 28 | Where do they think the money is going to come from to finance their wage rises ? |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , do you think the break-up was easy for me ? ’ |
| 30 | Do you think the Council is providing an adequate service educationally ? |