Example sentences of "[to-vb] [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schofield pointed out that failures to find are naturally in proportion to the number of successes — one man 's success being another 's failure . |
| 2 | Some powerful hints of what was to come were there to be seen in December 1980 . |
| 3 | The sort of relationship you will be seeking to establish is rather like the one you have with good business colleagues . |
| 4 | Employers who claim they can stand aside from com from com from competitive pressure to undercut are truly on one . |
| 5 | Another church to visit is near at hand . |
| 6 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 7 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 8 | Nick Price says that point to point is just like the cheltenham gold cup … its run under the same rules as the grand national … the big difference is that this is amateur … totally amateur … but its a boom sport and very popular in this area |
| 9 | After that the jug of water was empty and I was full , but the waiter was smirking in an enigmatic Eastern way , so I toyed with the final concoction , just to prove I could if I wanted to , and that any I happened to leave was just for manners . |
| 10 | Italy are going to be defending their territory , they 've got all these teams in their country , and like , some of them ; England , Holland , German , they 're going to like be there on Italian sort of territory and they do n't want that , they 're going to be , there 's going to be trouble I think . |
| 11 | The place to start is clearly with Froggy 's sister . |
| 12 | Collusive tendering , market sharing and collective refusals to supply are also to be included . |
| 13 | The City put the shares up 4p to 565p , but that seems to have been largely on the basis of the optimistic tone of the statement and the general state of the market than from any in-depth analysis of the figures . |
| 14 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |
| 15 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |
| 16 | This is in stark contrast with the Exclusion Crisis , when both the electorate and , at least initially , " the crowd " , appear to have been largely in favour of the Whigs . |
| 17 | In the North the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham was second only to that of St Thomas , although his appeal seems to have been particularly to northerners ( 209 , pp.28–30 ) . |
| 18 | A warrant for Zhivkov 's arrest had been issued on Jan. 18 , but he was believed to have been effectively under house arrest at one of his 30 former official residences since shortly after his resignation in November 1989 . |
| 19 | Indeed , in some of his pronouncements Adler seems to have been ahead of his time . |
| 20 | The Headmaster 's ideas on discipline seem to have been ahead of the times . |
| 21 | ‘ And you 're fingering Billy to have been here on Sunday on some sort of animal liberation commando raid ? ’ |
| 22 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 23 | Hell , she ought to have been downstairs by now . |
| 24 | In the classical trade cycle , which is agreed to have been normally of between nine and twelve years , the time proportional factor was of the same order . |
| 25 | Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time . |
| 26 | Put in this way , management of the economy seems to have been grossly at fault . |
| 27 | His tomb , said to have been originally in a Ravenna church , has a marble cover which bears a full-length portrait of the recumbent warrior decked out in his best battle-gear . |
| 28 | Patrick 's evangelical work is believed to have been chiefly in the north of the country , which was still largely pagan . |
| 29 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
| 30 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |