Example sentences of "be [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign . |
| 2 | What was feasible general practice , and whether that was the best place to be contacting the local people . |
| 3 | Critics claim that that consumers will , in effect , be SUBSIDISING the major industrial polluters who continue to evade prosecution . |
| 4 | Next week , in recognition of this magnificent feat , Public NME will be devoting the entire page to care of your dust mask . |
| 5 | A source close to the Law Commission suggests that , in the case of contracted-out services , one legal remedy might be to sue the relevant agency for breach of contract . |
| 6 | It will , in that sense , be using the existing form of uneven development to its maximum advantage . |
| 7 | The AA says fourteen thousand extra drivers a day will be using the existing motorway and its link roads by 1991 . |
| 8 | The railway is currently under construction and will be using the trackbed of the long-closed Newbury Railway , previously standard gauge and originally Brunel 's broad gauge . |
| 9 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 10 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 11 | Can he tell us whether and how he will be using the new marketing initiative of his Ministry to assist exports in the industry ? |
| 12 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 13 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 14 | " He wo n't be using the old way for long . " |
| 15 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 16 | One of the most disgraceful international aspects of what is going on in Bosnia is that Western leaders , including our own , seem to be accepting the escalating Serbian brutality , and its consequences of carnage , rape , starvation and terror as if it were inevitable and beyond their combined capacities for effective reaction or remedy . |
| 17 | Their job will be to tend the injured on the second flight back to Britain |
| 18 | Yes I mean , I think that we had a big discussion at the last area committee on the scheme and the problem was of course that the detailed plans er , for the consultation erm to the , I 'm at , I 'm a bit worried that at this late stage there 's this new idea of of building on the green wedge at the back and I would n't like to think that the scheme should be delayed the important thing , it seems to me , is that it should press ahead and |
| 19 | The towers of Manhattan seemed almost to be touching the cold grey sky . |
| 20 | Yet it now looks inevitable that MPs and unions will be demanding the big spending schemes aimed at putting Britain back to work do exactly that . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , the Maritime school accept that our forces should be deployed primarily to support the First and Second Pillars , but argue that they must also be given the strategic mobility , equipment , and training to continue Britain 's global role as required by the Third Pillar . |
| 22 | The resignation of do Nascimento led to speculation that he would be given the key role of director-general of the national electoral commission , as the government came under increasing pressure from the USA , Russia and Portugal to hasten election preparations . |
| 23 | She recalled singing in both operas at Boosback as a 16-year-old and says she was amazed to be given the female lead in The Beggars ' and only three weeks in which to learn the words and music ! |
| 24 | For dividend announcements to be treated unambiguously as good signals , managers must be given the correct incentive to transmit a true signal even if the information is bad . |
| 25 | The sentence can only be assigned the right truth conditions , or alternatively be given the correct semantic representation , if the pragmatic significance of and in this sentential context ( namely the " and then " interpretation ) is taken into account before doing the semantics . |
| 26 | Staff must be given the extra support and training required . ’ |
| 27 | She asks why these dreams should ‘ be given the supreme power of enveloping the planet ( conquering the world ) , when neither those dreams nor man have shown the slightest capacity for solving the world 's real problems , only a brilliant capacity for displacing them ’ ( 389 ) . |
| 28 | Paragraph three , the action plan , er well it will guide itself evidence this , the statements made under the action plan , from section three of the report will guide our activities over the next three years and of course paragraph four performance the critical success factors , by the seven criteria we will be judged in the highway service and each one is a challenge in its own right and I do hope to receive in order to carry out these er , these er promises in fact , that erm , I 'd be given the relevant level of financial staff and resources |
| 29 | Section l(c) of the Nullity of Marriage Act should , therefore , either be repealed or be given the wide , radical , but unintended , interpretation outlined above . |
| 30 | According to letters her mother had received from Uncle Félix , Alice Pritchett had done quite amazingly well and was going to be given the new London branch of her uncle 's fashion house to manage . |