Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 2 | You do want me to be precise about what I tell you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being involved with the people who did this … are you ? ’ |
| 4 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 5 | It 'll establish efficient links between North Oxfordshire 's farmers and the police helping them to be quick off the mark if anything dubious is noticed . |
| 6 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | You see they 've nothing to be frightened of any more . |
| 8 | I want them to be impressed by what they see . |
| 9 | These guys therefore must have a facility of ensuring that the price is correct , from an internal control point of view I want them to be involved in certifying that the price is correct . |
| 10 | People need to be encouraged to write to or visit their MPs and urge them to be present on the day and vote for the Bill . |
| 11 | A word of caution : we dare not simply burst in on others with a glibly phrased formula and expect them to be warm with forgiveness . |
| 12 | Somehow we expect them to be happy to be kept in a place which is warm and dry , where they can eat to their heart 's content with their companions ; but no , they become quite upset . |
| 13 | The C-terminal portion of region 1 , poorly conserved in the related IE proteins of the α-herpesviruses , was also included in our expressed peptide ; the role played by these additional residues is not fully understood but deletion analysis on the 140k DNA binding domain found them to be necessary for the production of a clear DNase I footprint but not for binding in gel retardation assays ( see below ) . |
| 14 | On finally seeing these creatures , mating in the high forest canopy like cataracts of spun glass , we found them to be transparent with a deeper meaning , something which lay beyond them , in the undiscovered wisdom of the islanders themselves . |
| 15 | I have found them working in ways I had never expected them to be able to . |
| 16 | She is also lobbying for relief for nurseries from the uniform business rate , in the same way as educational establishments ; she wants them to be zero-rated for VAT purposes and provided with loans for safety improvements and training . |
| 17 | In the European scheme of things , England has nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 18 | My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash . |
| 19 | She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily . |
| 20 | They say they just want someone to be accountable for the death of their daughter . |
| 21 | McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about . |
| 22 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 23 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 24 | ‘ I want you to be nice to him . |
| 25 | ‘ I want you to be proud of me , Agnes . |
| 26 | We want you to be efficient in your studies . |
| 27 | ‘ Whatever the uncertainties the last few weeks may have brought I want you to be certain of this — our work together will continue unchanged , ’ she told the 40 charities of which she is patron . |
| 28 | But I want you to be careful of one thing . |
| 29 | But , however great the problems in your life , try to find something to be joyful about . |
| 30 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |