Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the notion is intended to emphasise are those issues to do with the how and the why of sociology 's empirical reference . |
| 2 | Yet such as it is , what I have witnessed has been enough to throw a strong light on the materials I have used , and , for me , has made the dry bones live . |
| 3 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 4 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 5 | ‘ Labourer : ‘ What I want to know be this . |
| 6 | Once you have made the appointment and the candidate has accepted is this the end of the recruitment and selection process ? |
| 7 | Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community . |
| 8 | While Strathclyde continues to have by far the highest number of killings of any force , the 67.3 per cent increase it has suffered is less than in some other force areas . |
| 9 | Another subject directly connected with the way more recent theology has moved is that of philosophy — or , rather , of the various kinds of philosophy which have influenced theologians . |
| 10 | But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece . |
| 11 | The third provision I want to discuss is that of age-related testing . |
| 12 | Another example of the importance of having time to say goodbye to the person who has died is that of a client I was working with who seemed quite unable to talk about his wife 's death and seemed totally unconcerned that she had died tragically . |
| 13 | All that needs saying is that Mould is back with a razor sharp cleaver , a new band , a re-tuned view of the uneven-ness of life . |
| 14 | all that needs saying is that Mould is back in a big way … |
| 15 | What I want to ensure is that Computer Services aspirations for Phases 2 and 3 do not cause unnecessary delay or additional cost to an improvement in the Committee Division 's use of computers . |
| 16 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 17 | The palaeoenvironments also appear to have been little different from those of the afropithecins , with closed woodland-forest indicated for Fort Ternan , although some authors infer open country or even grassland for this site . |
| 18 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 19 | The problem that Scotland somehow has to overcome is that fact that while there is a high degree of quality there remains the worrying lack of quantity . |
| 20 | Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable . |
| 21 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 22 | Er the situation is that what has happened is that government has lowered the mandatory ceiling from fifty thousand to twenty thousand . |
| 23 | Mr Dickinson said : ‘ From what I understand what has happened is that last year the county championships were held the week after the Spring Bank Holiday and some counties have automatically presumed that this would be the case this year Cleveland and Northumberland included . |
| 24 | All that has happened is some well organised opposition to the Baldonnell site . |
| 25 | What has to happen is this . |
| 26 | — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’ |
| 27 | The questions our friends were dying to ask were those which the tabloids have trumpeted ever since the case came into the public domain . |
| 28 | ‘ What I want to say is this , there was a misunderstanding . |
| 29 | What I want to say is this . |
| 30 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |