Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sports Council has confirmed that Andrew Saxton CAN take part , if selected , but it has attacked weighlifting 's ruling body for not taking any action against Saxton . |
| 2 | And the Chief said that does n't compare he said that does not concur with a visit I had last night in Glasgow whilst asleep when he awoke to a gleaming light at his bedroom and he said who are you and this figure said I am God and the Chief Fire Officer said well God , all I want to know is one thing , will I get my southern fire station ? |
| 3 | In other words what any other writer has written is open territory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But one local craftsman has gone one stage better and has made is own time piece . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But that local needs heading is one heading , the other heading which I think would be unavoidable is erm on migration . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | all that needs saying is that Mould is back in a big way … |
| 10 | What I want to ensure is that Computer Services aspirations for Phases 2 and 3 do not cause unnecessary delay or additional cost to an improvement in the Committee Division 's use of computers . |
| 11 | The ford in the river was blown up to make navigation easier and from time to time there appear to have been spectacular rock falls , one of which carried away the last vestiges of St Vincent 's Chapel which gave its name to St Vincent 's Rocks . |
| 12 | The problem that Scotland somehow has to overcome is that fact that while there is a high degree of quality there remains the worrying lack of quantity . |
| 13 | Er the situation is that what has happened is that government has lowered the mandatory ceiling from fifty thousand to twenty thousand . |
| 14 | Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable . |
| 15 | There was reported to have been intense lobbying of UN delegates by US and other officials in the days preceding the vote , which was originally scheduled for March 30 , but was postponed to avoid offending Islamic sensibilities on the feast-day of Laila al-Qadr . |
| 16 | We have made a major contribution to the overall income of pensioners , while all that the Labour party has to offer is inflationary erosion of savings , a failure in home ownership and many other schemes that Labour has offered ; although such proposals make it seem that pensioners are better off , because they are offered with other features , in reality it is a small percentage rise . |
| 17 | But I just do n't understand why you want to stop being exciting pop stars and become boring rock musicians . |
| 18 | — the most interesting thing he has to say is that sadism and masochism are always present in the same person : a masochist is a frustrated sadist , and a sadist is a frustrated masochist . ’ |
| 19 | What the right hon. Gentleman has to say is economic illiteracy . |
| 20 | What I want to say is one thing about the public 's perception of the political scene at the moment . |
| 21 | Where that information relates to national security , all that the Government has to show is that publication might cause some injury to the national interest — a test which would ensure that the British equivalent of the Pentagon Papers would never see the light of day . |
| 22 | The one area of Conservative history which has flourished is political biography , but the danger of this is a tendency to reduce the history of the Conservative Party to a history of personalities and to avoid any analysis of Conservatism in terms of structures , interests and ideas . |
| 23 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , most of what has been written has been complete nonsense , so far from the truth that it 's not even funny . |
| 25 | And she said that 's all she 'd made was five phone calls . |
| 26 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 27 | In the Fuqua case there does not appear to have been any problem of divisional interdependence , but this will not always be the case . |
| 28 | At the same time , you can see the domestic holidays the pattern 's less clear , but certainly there does n't appear to have been any growth . |
| 29 | All we seemed to get is abstract art which people in Harlow means so few appreciate which I quite understand . . . |
| 30 | The £90 invested in baking ingredients was soon seen to have been good sterdship , for the unfailing supply of beautiful baking was a marvel . |