Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there is a certain amount of confusion and inconsistency in the arguments does not make them less to be feared . |
| 2 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 3 | After the discovery of consignments of hospital waste , including syringes and blood bags , in a quarry rubbish tip in eastern France , French customs officers intercepted at least 20 German trucks , and found them also to be carrying hospital waste , sometimes mixed with ordinary domestic rubbish . |
| 4 | They expect somebody else to be responsible ’ and it was a cause for great sorrow that ‘ Gone are the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 5 | The task for the journalist and broadcaster is to recognise and conform to the valuable discipline of the law , while at the same time understanding it sufficiently to be able to call the bluff of those who seek to exploit it to suppress important truths . |
| 6 | I do n't think we 're likely to meet it here to be honest with you but yes you do get it . |
| 7 | No they 're all tucked well in , now she needs it still to be up here , right , so what 's the best thing that we can do to make sure it stays up in the high position ? |
| 8 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 9 | But I think good parents need the perspective which allows them sometimes to be selfish . |
| 10 | Davide is against him , he came and told me afterwards to be careful . |
| 11 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 12 | Cohesive markers are not always necessary , but where you find sentences without evident markers , it may be useful to inspect them closely to be certain that the relationship with the preceding sentence is sufficiently clear . |
| 13 | I shall expect you always to be dressed by dinner time and whomsoever I bring home to my table you 'll be in readiness to receive . |
| 14 | Soon the forest closed around her , so dense and dark in places that even as the new day broke she imagined herself still to be in a midnight realm . |
| 15 | Never valuing him enough to be jealous , never arriving suddenly to catch him out , never finding his mail interesting enough to steam open ! |
| 16 | In Ashton 's version , as in the Russian staged version , the Tutor 's encounter with Katia , the servant girl , allows him momentarily to be back home amongst his master 's peasants . |
| 17 | Any obscuring of the world as the known facts show it objectively to be betrays a weakness in me . |
| 18 | Revising it yesterday to be honest . |
| 19 | I 'm gon na , you can chair it from there but I 'm gon na do it just to be safe . |
| 20 | I know but we ca n't do , we ca n't do anything apart from be told what to do by the teachers . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm talking about liking people , liking them enough to be friends . |
| 22 | Their greatest fear is that as they become weaker , ‘ caring authorities ’ will take them over and whisk them away to be ‘ looked after properly ’ . |
| 23 | No I 've got nothing else to be doing at this moment . |
| 24 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 25 | In 1816 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and made a knight of the Danish Order of Dannebrog , on the strength of which he allowed himself thenceforth to be called ‘ Sir Charles ’ . |
| 26 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 27 | The blood had been washed from his face and body , and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family , who , despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church . |
| 28 | Read it again to be heard by eight or ten adults in your sitting-room , and again to be heard in a big hall , allowing time for your voice to travel to the back of the hall . |
| 29 | To risk everything simply to be with her . |
| 30 | ‘ But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious . |