Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such chips are designed for varied use and tend to be mass-produced . |
| 2 | ‘ Our businesses cover a number of fronts , and tend to be cyclical , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Our international institutions are frail , fragile and tend to be powerless . |
| 4 | They range in size from five to twenty-five centimetres in length , and tend to be pink or brown , with fluffy tufts of spines ( setae ) protruding from each segment . |
| 5 | She had known warmer climes and situations more civilized and now , in her old age , needed and expected to be warm . |
| 6 | Indeed , the West Indians originally thought that they had much in common with British people and expected to be able to identify with the British way of life ( PEP 1976 ) . |
| 7 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 8 | Initial conditions for the chemical constituents were taken from two-dimensional model results and adjusted to be consistent with recent observations . |
| 9 | All companies were dismissive of the value of using professional translation agencies and sought to be self-sufficient ( either within own plant or through their international network ) . |
| 10 | The archdeacon in the king 's presence appointed his brother Richard to perform the duties of his Forest office in his place , and agreed to be responsible for him . |
| 11 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 12 | You will not get the best out of the professionals you consult unless you have a realistic appreciation of what you want and intend to be open and honest enough with them to give them the facts they will need to help you . |
| 13 | It may be important , therefore , to arrange for deferred consideration and earnouts to be payable mainly in shares and loan notes , always subject to the creditworthiness of the vendor , to enable capital gains tax liabilities to be held-over . |
| 14 | More recently , biofeedback treatment has been suggested and reported to be effective in about two thirds of patients . |
| 15 | CFS work for the parent company is costed as though it were an outside contractor and has to be competitive . |
| 16 | As a Central Announcer , Hilary Holden writes her own scripts and has to be able to cope in a crisis . |
| 17 | Some people find it helpful to listen to the noises and to try to be selective , to turn them into a tune or a rhythm . |
| 18 | JAMES SERVICE ( 1823–1899 ) emigrated to Melbourne in the 1840s and formed a large commercial firm ; he entered state politics and rose to be Premier of Victoria from 1883 to 1885 . |
| 19 | London needs the current establishments of beds , and needs to be able to resource them fully . |
| 20 | The village is the place to stay if you enjoy a relaxed , informal atmosphere and want to be close to all the activities . |
| 21 | Now EMF are fed up and want to be serious , spiritual rock stars and mates with Bono — and still on a diet of dangerous drugs and sex . |
| 22 | Most of those who come to church expect and want to be able to sing , and the Commission believes that the music in parish churches ought to be substantially congregational . |
| 23 | Right , and there 's various pros and cons to be aware of . |
| 24 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 25 | The girls giggled and pretended to be unimpressed . |
| 26 | As time goes by these devices become familiar and cease to be perceptible . |
| 27 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 28 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |
| 29 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 30 | Of particular interest in this case is the fact that as part of a nutritional screen serum and red cell glutathione concentrations were measured and found to be low . |