Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 2 | Well I think er what I 'll do because Stuart who 's the C E O rather happens to be with us er I think I 'll ask Stuart if he would like to make a few remarks . |
| 3 | Whilst this section is confined in its application to acts expressly authorised to be done on behalf of a firm , the general law of agency will continue to attach liability to the firm for the unauthorised acts of its employees when those acts are within the course of their normal or apparent activities for the firm . |
| 4 | Indeed , the name " pupa " derives from a Latin word meaning a doll , for at this stage the insect within seems to be wrapped in swaddling clothes . |
| 5 | Two and a half million people are saddled with hire purchase agreements and mortgages they can no longer afford , and although fewer homes are being repossessed the debts eventually have to be paid . |
| 6 | Today the Vatican rightly claims to be the country with the world 's lowest birthrate ; since most of its permanent residents are Roman Catholic clergy and nuns , the chances of a baby appearing in their midst are slim by anyone 's reckoning . |
| 7 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to actually damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding , corporate statements can evidence the fact that there have been poor profits during all these years … |
| 8 | ‘ One faces a decision , I guess , at such times , about how far to go with company instructions , and since the spirit of such meetings only appeared to be correcting a horrible price level situation , that there was not an attempt to damage customers , charge excessive prices , there was no personal gain in it for me , the company did not seem actually to be defrauding … morally it did not seem quite so bad as might be inferred by the definition of the activity itself . ’ |
| 9 | When in position the confection obviously had to be protected from the effects of the sea water until the frogman had positioned the mine and was ready to ‘ an ’ it . |
| 10 | And , for a deal to be reached , not all creditors necessarily need to be involved . |
| 11 | The logarithmic technique is not normally used because it requires an extra search for every power-of-two increase in the number of records , while a higher-level index only needs to be built when an index has reached three or four tracks in size . |
| 12 | Flip over and you 'll find equally impressive tunes from Liberty City and Interceptor patiently waiting to be tried and tested , both estimable club-friendly giants sleepwalking through Deep House style lobbies and thoroughly warranting as much attention as ‘ Reach Me ’ . |
| 13 | The ward sister naturally needs to be consulted , and this can be discussed at a preliminary interview between the learner and the sister . |
| 14 | Hull justly claims to be the birthplace of the Civil War . |
| 15 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 16 | The law , rather , reflects social changes in that it permits marriages that have in practice effectively ended to be legally dissolved . |
| 17 | You can prove this for yourself , in fact , by re-reading any good whodunit where you can remember who the murder eventually proved to be . |
| 18 | In either event , the employee will probably seek to argue that operational savings properly fall to be regarded as a benefit derived from the patent . |
| 19 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 20 | Suddenly running the club successfully seemed to be the most important thing in her life . |
| 21 | This is an astonishing view of the world ; a perversely reversed megalomania ; an assertion that all forms of political and military life were brought into existence by the grand design of the Soviet Union so that if those designs suddenly cease to be hostile , then all that is solid in the West will melt . |
| 22 | Other aspects necessarily need to be taken into account . |
| 23 | Your pond only has to be large enough to catch the returning water . |
| 24 | It is miffed that after struggling to get where it has , the industry suddenly seems to be rallying around an unproven — if conceptually similar — port by Apple rather than its own available technology . |
| 25 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 26 | Thirdly , I will conclude that the way we approach and use research perhaps needs to be rethought . |
| 27 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 28 | Apparently , Halsbury then ‘ conceived the idea that the case should be re-argued before an enlarged body of Law Lords and that , in addition , the House should adopt once more the practice of summoning the High Court judges to advise ’ , a practice generally thought to be obsolete . |
| 29 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |