Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The warders you asked to see are here , Mr Nicholson , ’ his secretary told him . |
| 2 | Even allowing that man 's capacity to overlook what he does not want to see is almost unlimited , the folk of this age can hardly have failed to observe that new law was being made all the time . |
| 3 | Being constrained upon penalty to leave the place where one would prefer to remain is surely such an interference , calling for justification . |
| 4 | He concealed his identity with such success that his desire to remain hidden was probably deliberate . |
| 5 | What she undoubtedly failed to see was just how remarkable her Scottish kingdom was , both in its political life and in its perceptions of itself and other nations . |
| 6 | Usually the imbalance of representation that the Commission 's system was intended to redress is less striking . |
| 7 | In discussing the above information and access requirements , the purchaser should be careful not to discourage the vendors either by presenting a long shopping list or by giving the impression that the price expectation already given has been poorly researched . |
| 8 | ‘ There are more Senior tournaments in the pipeline , but what I want to see are more National Open championships . |
| 9 | ‘ The visitors ’ centre which the company has developed is now one of the most impressive and popular attractions of its kind in Northern Ireland , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 11 | By contrast , those still stone free nine months or more after dissolution treatment has stopped are genuinely likely to have had complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 12 | The freedom which members of high-performing systems appear to enjoy is thus not inconsistent with stability of purpose and behaviour . |
| 13 | July 1945 , and as the number of people expected to attend was considerably more than the Chiswick Town Hall could accommodate , the ceremony was held at the Chiswick Empire , hired for the occasion , and to which ‘ Monty ’ accompanied by the Mayor , Alderman T. W. Stroud , J.P. , rode in a landau carriage through cheering crowds . |
| 14 | When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ? |
| 15 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 16 | What I want to know is just what did it take to get him to do that ? |
| 17 | Now yes there are times when other people give you arguments and will try and change it around and and you know yes we will listen to them and will agree that but what we want to know is ultimately is what 's going to be done about it . |
| 18 | The things we really want to know are too difficult for straightforward intuition ; we must therefore ask our informants questions that they CAN answer reliably and accurately . |
| 19 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 20 | The means by which LIFESPAN checks the module header of a proposed module to check that all the information it contains has been correctly formatted and is in the correct place . |
| 21 | The specific question that Aspect , together with jean Dalibard and Gérard Roger , has attacked is commonly known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox , the essence of which runs as follows . |
| 22 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 23 | The sort of agreements which the legislation is designed to catch are precisely the same as those which the UK legislation is aimed at , namely price fixing , market sharing , restrictions on supply , etc . |
| 24 | However all the men we had come to meet were extremely courteous . |
| 25 | The formalities required before a company can commence trading are relatively straightforward . |
| 26 | While Sir John tended to favour a consensus style of management , Sir Denys has been more authoritarian , taking more direct responsibility for decisions . |
| 27 | I am aware that what the Government have latterly pursued has been periodically categorised as power-sharing devolution . |
| 28 | We 've had a debate on Local Management of Schools opposed by the Labour Party where we have seen that the right to choose their own children 's quality of education and where school governing bodies can direct their cash where they want has been extremely popular . |
| 29 | Conference , if you think back to all those times that you have sat at home watching the news after a day 's work like I have , and listen carefully to what is being said , you may well have been horrified and saddened to hear the many stories appertaining to people who have had accidents or died due to the fact that the machine they have been driving has been too powerful . |
| 30 | Does he agree that in choosing the alternative route the Secretary of State for Transport was second guessing and ignoring the possibility that an environmental assessment would conclude that the general route that he has selected was as inappropriate as the one from which the hon. Gentleman thinks his constituents would suffer ? |