Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's just for your per your personal pride I suppose is to try and get that because |
| 2 | All yous do is fight and ruck and fight do you ever see a house like it Albert ? |
| 3 | I like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian , we 've been hearing and seeing and been challenged and accepting Christ as our saviour and over the week in Harlow a number made that response and not only in Harlow and in Earls Court but right across the country and into Europe and into Africa as well , through the , through the life link , men and women who have been challenged into accepting Jesus Christ as their saviour and I 'd like us to think for a little while this morning just what it means to be a Christian now obviously as we perhaps know er , and , and , and God work clearly shows to us that it is not in being religion , somebody well said that religion is man 's attempt to find God but the gospel is God 's method of seeking out and finding men and so just as the same as you 've seen that bridge of life illustration and we try with our planks to get across to God we ca n't make it , |
| 4 | And we 've been waiting and waiting and waiting now for a week to get this reconciliation at least together so that we could go out and re-count whatever was required . |
| 5 | Since the act was passed in 1973 some 750 domestic species have been listed as threatened or endangered , but the time between the filing of a petition for a listing and a government decision has lengthened from two to three years . |
| 6 | It is envisaged that these arrangements shall remain in force until initial expressions of interest have been received and analysed and a decision taken regarding the handling of the next stage of the formal sale process . |
| 7 | Primary afferent neurones sensitive to the neurotoxic action of capsaicin have been characterised as neurones that are sensitive to chemical and other modalties of noxiour stimuli . |
| 8 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 9 | Now to my mind that is not a question of being a snooper , a nark or even being a policeman , er it is er er indeed if we look at section fifteen of the local government finance act of nineteen eighty two er it it 's quite interesting to see the the words used because the auditor is under a duty , amongst other things , to see that the accounts are prepared in accordance with regulations er made under the act er to see that proper practices that have been followed and to see that the body of accounts that have been audited have made proper arrangements f for securing economy , efficiency and effectiveness . |
| 10 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |
| 11 | In one of the worst years on record many nests have been robbed or destroyed and adult birds shot or poisoned . |
| 12 | An experienced user will find a number of commands have been moved or re-named but there will be little trauma in adjusting . |
| 13 | Conservation organisations have claimed that increasing quantities of rare wildlife have been hunted and sold as exotic pets , food and medicine both in Thailand and abroad . |
| 14 | Stays and patch screws have been checked and defective examples replaced , new wash out plugs have been tapped and fitted and the fire-box tapped out to welcome this flue . |
| 15 | It automatically remembers folders and files which have been opened or saved and allows easy access to them , either via pop-up menus , command keys or a wildcard file search . |
| 16 | Talking to the locomotive owners and train organisers direct , as far as can be ascertained , the following trains have been agreed and authorised although not all of the departure times and routes have been fully confirmed . |
| 17 | However , the purchaser should ensure that this only applies to obligations to the extent that they have been disclosed and ensure that it will not be required to perform the obligations if such vicarious performance would be a breach of the relevant contract ( see clause 8.2(b) of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 18 | By then , known items have been recycled and summarised and any new ways of asking permission in the sequence can be highlighted . |
| 19 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 20 | This is the basis on which the various elements in the answers to the questions given on page 145 have been labelled as given or new . |
| 21 | It 's very violent , there 's people been injured , trucks have been burnt and damaged and a lot of tyres have been spiked and er you know , generally it 's like a riot on , on the border , but the rest of Spain , it 's , it 's fairly peaceful , but all the roads are blockaded ; the drivers only problems are — where they 're getting stopped , is the facilities , they do n't have any . |
| 22 | Important missing scenes have been found and inserted and there is a new score from Carl Davis . |
| 23 | A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body . |
| 24 | Similarly children have been spaced or limited when required by a variety of means ( e.g. abstinence after the birth of a child , or delaying the age for cohabitation ) . |
| 25 | Cottages have been restored and renovated and , whatever the occasional lapses in taste , the appearance of most English villages has been greatly improved . |
| 26 | I have been quoted as saying that it is not birth , marriage , or death , but gastrulation which is truly ‘ the important event in your life ’ . |
| 27 | It is issued to passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed and is redeemable by the airlines at face value . |
| 28 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |