Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 These same activities are used whatever the setting — home , clinic or hospital — and communicating is even more important ( if that is possible ) when a child is involved , or a mentally handicapped person , or when the contact is made for psychiatric problems , as Hardcastle ( 1988 ) clearly outlines in ‘ First impressions ’ .
2 Specialists in linguistics sometimes claim that if non-specialists are asked what the function of language is , they will reply that it is ‘ to send
3 Specialists in linguistics sometimes claim that if non-specialists are asked what the function of language is , they will reply that it is ‘ to send information ’ or ‘ to tell other people your thoughts ’ .
4 The words were leading him the wrong way .
5 And erm the we are given or they h one of the reasons or the purposes behind Confirmation is to give us the strength to use the gifts which God 's al has already given us .
6 The simplest dynamical question that can be posed for curved space–time is to ask what the motion of a test body is in free fall , i.e. under gravitational forces alone .
7 ‘ Did you see that friend of Molly and Saul 's giving you the once-over , Minna ? ’ says Becky , digging her sister in the ribs .
8 The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence .
9 Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing .
10 Pat was showing him The True Path in stylish fashion .
11 A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar .
12 One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition …
13 and it was as simple as that , it was only until that I got all the paperwork from Germany that the letters and one thing and another , but somebody in there said to them well you 're talking rubbish cos the girl 's telling you the truth
14 The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message .
15 It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth .
16 Joe Meek 's last big hit was Have I the Right by the Honeycombs .
17 Your baby will love the taste — and you can be happy in the knowledge that Robinsons concentrated juices are giving them the goodness that they need .
18 We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months .
19 He told BBC 's Six O'Clock News : ‘ The Prime Minister 's job is to do what the people of his country want , not what the leaders of other countries want . ’
20 Undoubtedly , the skill of medical care in all specialties is balancing what the patient will accept with what the patient should accept .
21 It 's the 10th time the event has been held and the aim is to make it the biggest and best yet !
22 It has also been made clear that where an unmet need is recorded which the department has a legal duty to provide , it could be used as the basis for a legal challenge , although it should still be recorded .
23 With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments .
24 A meeting is held which the teacher attends in role as a railway engineer .
25 ‘ Your body 's giving me the right , ’ he said , blatantly dropping his gaze to her breasts .
26 In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales .
27 In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales .
28 By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder .
29 Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills .
30 DEC says that OSF/1-on-Alpha is now its primary platform and applications target and that customers are telling it the transition would be made more easily from MIPS R/4000-based boxes running Ultrix than OSF/1 .
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