Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all the cases that attract attention , because they are argued in important appellate courts before public scrutiny , are occasions on which judges are scrupulous in denying that they are serving the goal of protected expectations through their decisions , this can hardly do much to reinforce the public 's faith in that ideal . |
| 2 | " Well , the River Police suggest that it was to weight the body enough to keep it under water , but not to sink it . |
| 3 | You may feel rather unsure of what you want in life mid-June , Capricorn , but by the end of the month , you will know that you 're doing the right thing ! |
| 4 | He did n't know that I was meaning the blood in his mouth and he said : ‘ You have bitten half your tongue off . ’ |
| 5 | For the older 40-plus age groups , often high-flying career woman who have remained childless and perhaps unmarried , the principal sources of despair and anxiety are very often an inability to accept that they are nearing the end of their reproductive years , coupled with the fear of growing old and being lonely . |
| 6 | The farmers want to know that we are fighting the proposals . |
| 7 | Parent Ali Smith says it 's reassuring to know that you 're leaving the children with someone who knows what to do in a crisis . |
| 8 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 9 | in the coming year , and he is today announcing that we are doubling the size of the homeless mentally ill programme in London . |
| 10 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 11 | The fact of the matter , at the same time , erm , as you yourself have said , Chairman , we are in a situation where we have four communication rooms coming down to two next year hopefully , I personally think it should come down to one , but lets recognise that they 're costing the police authority one point six million pounds , they 're tying up forty-one uniformed police officers , and something like fifty er , civilian officers on those exercises . |
| 12 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 13 | I suddenly realise that we are attacking the enemy positions and we are now running through the trees . |
| 14 | They would scarcely need spies to discover that we were preparing the kind of fleet we would need to land an army across the Inner Sea . |
| 15 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 16 | I sense that you are suggesting the County Council should have done more than write a paragraph or two |
| 17 | But we 're dealing with a devil we do n't know and we 're paying the devil more than his due . |
| 18 | And it looks like we 're doing the same thing , over and over , but we 've got one damned thing the phoenix never had . |
| 19 | Outside , down to earth drummer Jon Brookes looks like he 's enjoying the holiday , whilst guitarist John Baker keeps quiet and keyboarder Rob threatens to headbutt LA 's rock royalty , insulting the city 's fat assets with a drunken Midland blur — he 's the band 's closest wildman . |
| 20 | Outside , down to earth drummer Jon Brookes looks like he 's enjoying the holiday , whilst guitarist John Baker keeps quiet and keyboarder Rob threatens to headbutt LA 's rock royalty , insulting the city 's fat assets with a drunken Midland blur — he 's the band 's closest wildman . |
| 21 | Similarly , we can criticise wilko for being negative — but we do nt know if he s told the team to go out there and score at all costs , but the team just has nt responded . |
| 22 | I do n't know if I am doing the right thing , but I want to make her feel safe . |
| 23 | ‘ I just wanted to know if you were carrying the case , that 's all . ’ |
| 24 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 25 | Figure 9c shows the space which the same algorithm would explore if it were given the backwards version of the task . |
| 26 | Poor blighter was hanged and we were dancing the night away . |
| 27 | Indeed , the local authority must be the key agency around which services are designed if we are to make the best use not only of social services but also of housing , education and leisure facilities . |
| 28 | Critical consents are those which it is essential for the purchaser to obtain if it is to conduct the business after completion . |
| 29 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
| 30 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |