Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want Mum to be alone , now she 'd left Ted and Jean , and moved back into our old house . |
| 2 | One might expect highly differentiated products to be able to maintain a higher price recovery . |
| 3 | Peter and Paul do not want Mummy to be ill or to have HC themselves , but at the moment there is no sure way to know for everyone . |
| 4 | Friends such as Edward Clodd , who expected Hardy to be relieved by her death in 1912 , found instead that he was overcome with remorse for neglecting one whom he had once loved so well . |
| 5 | On the other hand the public would want inspectors to be independent of the school being inspected . |
| 6 | After an argument about the beast 's form , Jack realises that he does n't need rules to be aggressive towards people who break them , he can attack people when he wants now . |
| 7 | We try to give a picture of Israel as a democracy , a country that has strengths and weaknesses , that has reasons for being distrustful . ’ |
| 8 | Now Mr Gorbachev wants Germany to be neutral , Mr Bush obviously does n't . |
| 9 | They say they simply want clubs to be subject to the same planning restrictions they face . |
| 10 | Well , it is abnormally low body weight for age and height , an intense fear of gaining weight despite being underweight and a misperception of body size and denial of the problem . |
| 11 | It is clear that those who seek autonomy may also seek opportunities to be creative . |
| 12 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 13 | The security men say he died in the crossfire of an encounter with militants who want Kashmir to be independent of India . |
| 14 | Add all this together and you have a formidable coalition of parents — black , Hispanic , Asian as well as the mainly Catholic groups like the Italians and the Irish — who want schools to be orderly , their children to be safe , the teaching to be orthodox and to concentrate on reading , writing and arithmetic . |
| 15 | John Smith , who has aspirations to be prime minister of the UK , has stated that the Tories have no mandate in Scotland to privatise water . |
| 16 | Moreover , while the EC countries want EFTA to be subject to the rules of the European Court of Justice , EFTA governments would prefer a new legal structure consisting of judges from both sides . |
| 17 | We expect surgeries to be open certain hours , and for you to undertake certain preventative health measures for all your patients whether they normally come to the surgery or not . |
| 18 | You can consider exercise to be any movement you make . |
| 19 | They want directors to be free to choose the accounting policies that best suit the particular circumstances of their particular company in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 20 | But Hanssen wants Amundsen to be first . |
| 21 | As an author , I expect reviewers to be honest and objective . |
| 22 | Clearly drivers want motoring to be cheaper , but the largest motoring organisation , the Automobile Association , puts forward strong environmental proposals in its budget submission . |
| 23 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
| 24 | It may be that those parents do not consider colour to be important , but such a blind attitude towards the role of group differences in the society is unwise . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's only two weeks and I want things to be slow ! ’ |
| 26 | Consultants have responded with workshops ( e.g. Levinson and Rosenthal , 1984 ) that promise to train managers to be visionary leaders . |
| 27 | We expect inflation to be higher as a result of the pound 's fall , which threatens to erode the initial competitiveness benefit as UK prices rise faster than those elsewhere and the real exchange rate rises again . |
| 28 | If we want sales to be six-dimensional , instead of making up a six-dimensional cube we attach six different labels to each item and store it in the database once . |
| 29 | LIPHOOK 'S CAB want people to be aware of a new disability allowance . |
| 30 | I want people to be able to listen to the records over and over again and I think for that to happen you have to create a depth of information that 's rock solid . |