Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far all he has received are 100 free shares . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 5 | In other words what any other writer has written is open territory . |
| 6 | Once you have made the appointment and the candidate has accepted is this the end of the recruitment and selection process ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | I think that both governments are aware of the proposals that emerged from th my dialogue with Mr Addams , and the process that has emerged , that I have said , and he has said is substantial progress towards lasting peace . |
| 10 | Do n't just listen and then go away without first checking that your interpretation of what the person has said is accurate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | John Popham , a parliamentary agent representing 13 local residents who have petitioned against the bill , believes that ‘ residents of Newport should be given the same degree of protection as the government has decided is necessary for property owners in Cardiff ’ . |
| 15 | This is fact is a debate about personal freedom the freedom of our tenants to choose the quite legal activities that take place on their farms for whatever we may think about the merits and de-merits of angling or shooting fox hunting , these are activities that Parliament has decided are permissible . |
| 16 | ‘ But what Bill has done is unbelievable . |
| 17 | But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece . |
| 18 | Yeah , cos all he needs to buy is two of them and he 's won ! |
| 19 | One thing Novell needs to avoid is internal conflict over what it sells — otherwise it gets into DEC 's position of having Unix on the books , but preferring to push its proprietary offerings . |
| 20 | But that local needs heading is one heading , the other heading which I think would be unavoidable is erm on migration . |
| 21 | That 's a beautiful black eye you 've got , Seb — but the one Boz has got is better . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the proliferation that has occurred is serious , since it entails an acquisition of nuclear weaponry by states whose ruling groups may become desperate enough to use it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | An individual will invent endless reasons why the absence of the person who has died is due to some circumstance that can change . |
| 25 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 26 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | all that needs saying is that Mould is back in a big way … |
| 29 | We believe that the tenants about whom my hon. Friend has spoken are responsible people who are capable of taking a mature decision . |
| 30 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |