Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Time Lords are supposed to remain calm , ’ he told himself , ‘ but then again , I do n't want to risk being late to meet Mait , do I ? ’ |
| 2 | The clean up to which Mr Bagnall referred has been physical ( refurbishment , rebadging and refitting ) , operational , and strategic . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the foods stressed-out women tend to crave are crunchy , such as biscuits and crisps , or tough and chewy , such as toffee . |
| 4 | Latent inhibition will show context-specificity when the only training given has been non-reinforced presentations of the stimulus in a given context . |
| 5 | The last thing I want to see is local authorities skimping on the police . |
| 6 | Juniors come to recognize that the local , situation-specific knowledge they are expected to acquire is important , that it will be called upon , and that it is their responsibility to develop and communicate it , to be sure it gets into the decision process . |
| 7 | The message the voice has to impart is well-known to the users of this service : ‘ Good morning , ladies and gentlemen inaudible earlier defective train leading to inaudible cancellations inaudible delays to all destinations . ’ |
| 8 | The Sports Council has confirmed that Andrew Saxton CAN take part , if selected , but it has attacked weighlifting 's ruling body for not taking any action against Saxton . |
| 9 | The corrective that Mr Welch has prescribed is bold enough to suggest that his second decade as chief executive could be as radical as the first . |
| 10 | Who suffer the discomforts of living in a longhouse near the headwaters of the Amazon when versions of what you want to know are available for observation just down the road ? |
| 11 | But the company he has been keeping has been fascinating . |
| 12 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 13 | In fact , he totally underestimated the difficulties he would have to face : in the 18 months since the APB was set up , the economic climate and spectacular corporate failures such as BCCI and Maxwell have left the public baying for auditors ' blood , and , although there has been a honeymoon period — somewhat extended recently by publication of the McFarlane Report — the pressure under which the new body has had to work has been intense . |
| 14 | The tendency for international capital flows to increase has been evident for some time , and was causing problems for central bank intervention in the final years of the Bretton Woods system . |
| 15 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 16 | In other words what any other writer has written is open territory . |
| 17 | A casual worker who , without good reason , fails to turn up for an assignment which he has accepted is unlikely to be offered assignments in the future . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the law relating to mistake was uncertain before Morgan . |
| 19 | Nor will he be able to take a sabbatical to formulate the complex structures of meaning lodged deep in the empirical material , which Lévi-Strauss ( 1976 : 80 ) has argued are capable of linking together symbolic and metaphoric programmes to ‘ reveal properties not immediately accessible to the ( empirical ) observation ’ . |
| 20 | I think that both governments are aware of the proposals that emerged from th my dialogue with Mr Addams , and the process that has emerged , that I have said , and he has said is substantial progress towards lasting peace . |
| 21 | Do n't just listen and then go away without first checking that your interpretation of what the person has said is accurate . |
| 22 | John Popham , a parliamentary agent representing 13 local residents who have petitioned against the bill , believes that ‘ residents of Newport should be given the same degree of protection as the government has decided is necessary for property owners in Cardiff ’ . |
| 23 | This is fact is a debate about personal freedom the freedom of our tenants to choose the quite legal activities that take place on their farms for whatever we may think about the merits and de-merits of angling or shooting fox hunting , these are activities that Parliament has decided are permissible . |
| 24 | ‘ But what Bill has done is unbelievable . |
| 25 | One thing Novell needs to avoid is internal conflict over what it sells — otherwise it gets into DEC 's position of having Unix on the books , but preferring to push its proprietary offerings . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the proliferation that has occurred is serious , since it entails an acquisition of nuclear weaponry by states whose ruling groups may become desperate enough to use it . |
| 27 | Aggregate demand = Aggregate supply Only when this condition is satisfied can we say that the total value of goods and services that households and the other economic agents want to buy is equal to the total value that firms want to produce . |
| 28 | An individual will invent endless reasons why the absence of the person who has died is due to some circumstance that can change . |
| 29 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 30 | Essentially , what we proposed to do was straightforward . |