Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | COMPANIES that supply optical fibres to British Telecom are stepping up their efforts to cut the price of the fibres in the face of international competition . |
| 2 | Detectives are stepping up their hunt for a rapist who attacked a woman at Nottingham 's Music Festival at the weekend . |
| 3 | Police are stepping up their hunt for two armed raiders who 've kidnapped and threatened shop managers in a spate of robberies . |
| 4 | Police are stepping up their hunt for a man who 's carried out a series of sexual attacks on women in the last seven months . |
| 5 | HEALTH watchdogs in Aberconwy are stepping up their pressure on Gwynedd Health Authority to ensure there is adequate weekend and night-time anaesthetic cover at Llandudno Hospital . |
| 6 | You are building up his arbitrary obedience to conscience instead of his understanding and acceptance of ethical standards . |
| 7 | Maintaining teacher credibility and teacher self-respect is important but often this is done at some cost but if apologies to children and parents are justified then they should be made handsomely . |
| 8 | The use of different flowers for each picture means that each design stands on its own but when the pictures are placed together it is obvious that they form a pair . |
| 9 | Since Romanies first migrated from northern India in the tenth century , travellers have been persecuted everywhere they have lived and journeyed . |
| 10 | Spinster Rosemarie , 52 , had been paralysed down her right side since birth . |
| 11 | I intend to make my home here in this town , and if I can do anything to ensure that the people here are treated fairly I shall do it . |
| 12 | I use the phrase hypocritical exhortation , because I know Jim is sitting there with a tape recorder and taking note of all the words we are using today our dictionary so I think the phrase hypocritical exhortation I said three times in relation |
| 13 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 14 | Although we can not yet say conclusively how objects are recognized visually we are beginning to converge on an answer . |
| 15 | You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off . |
| 16 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 17 | Japan had for several years been building up her armed forces in anticipation of conflict with Russia , but many hoped that matters could still be settled amicably . |
| 18 | Davies , who missed the Lions tour to rest a pelvic injury , has been building up his upper body strength and Widnes , 12-1 shots for the Stones Bitter title , will feel the benefit . |
| 19 | what they have to do , have to go further off now , when they are dredging now they have to go further off into the sea , North Sea |
| 20 | The schemata are individual gardens and when they are joined together we have a spiritual world of boundless scope . |
| 21 | When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus . |
| 22 | When 2 or 3 of these central forms are joined together they are referred to as pole medallions ( pls 1,2 ) . |
| 23 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 24 | If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit . |
| 25 | One development in this respect is known as the ‘ Portage ’ programme , where the parents of the child are taught how they might best develop the potential of the child in a home environment . |
| 26 | I 've no specific information but I suspect that they are cooking up something big and the Romanians do n't like it . |
| 27 | find stat view very difficult to use myself but er when the time comes , once you 've got a few that are filled in we can erm well I 'll show you how to do an S P S S data file and , and erm so you can bash your data in and if you bring it back we can turn it into a system file and analyze it . |
| 28 | Then plan a week or two away from the village in order to catch up with some of those desk jobs that are hanging over your head . |
| 29 | What I am suggesting though I think is that you know , a close which is referred to as being the best of course is th the most honest is the |
| 30 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |