Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [be] [adj] " 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 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The clean up to which Mr Bagnall referred has been physical ( refurbishment , rebadging and refitting ) , operational , and strategic . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , the foods stressed-out women tend to crave are crunchy , such as biscuits and crisps , or tough and chewy , such as toffee . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They walk solemnly , exhibiting the discipline that even the industrialists concede has been one of Niyogi 's great contributions to their factories . |
| 8 | Latent inhibition will show context-specificity when the only training given has been non-reinforced presentations of the stimulus in a given context . |
| 9 | The last thing I want to see is local authorities skimping on the police . |
| 10 | So far all he has received are 100 free shares . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | CLUB : The maximum number of clubs you are permitted to carry is 14 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Here the last thing you expect to see is one of the most exquisite small houses in the land ; yet here , glimpsed down a short straight avenue of completely inappropriate young cherry trees , is Lodge Park . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | ‘ Labourer : ‘ What I want to know be this . |
| 21 | But the company he has been keeping has been fascinating . |
| 22 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | In other words what any other writer has written is open territory . |
| 27 | Once you have made the appointment and the candidate has accepted is this the end of the recruitment and selection process ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the law relating to mistake was uncertain before Morgan . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |