Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both thought there were so many things people ought to know about but were afraid to ask . |
| 2 | I think if you do n't go to train and still find your way into the profession some of the essential things you need to know about and be able to do will take that much longer to achieve . |
| 3 | Another alternative is to use disposable paper bags — these are also much more flexible to work with and are good for very delicate piping . |
| 4 | As soon as a a a a a woman , erm or a lady stands up to be counted she 's looked about , she 's looked at as being aggressive , not assertive , as first it 's aggressive because they think it 's the challenge again . |
| 5 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 6 | To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified . |
| 7 | An inn , mine host , stories in the winter evenings , fishing in the summer , introducing some of the scientific ideas of farming which he himself had heard of but was sure had not penetrated the ancient little world of this valley … |
| 8 | The chief superintendent looked from one sheet to another and then back again , as if there were certain connections that he was looking for and was unable to find . |
| 9 | All five component parts react with and are interdependent upon each other , so much so that all five behave as a single living entity . |
| 10 | It will be seen , however , that although the Rules required that if the notice related to and was prejudicial to a person other than a member , a copy of the notice must be served upon him , such a person not only did not have any prior opportunity of making representations why the notice should not be issued , but was not given , under the Rules , the right to apply to set it aside , nor any right to appeal against the notice . |
| 11 | You will soon get a feel for the speed you walk at and be able to judge different walking paces ( 2.5 , 3.0 , 3.5 , 4.0 m.p.h . ) . |
| 12 | Thus , though one might for some purposes characterise the human sciences as concerned with human behaviour in all its fullness this is to misrepresent what turn out to be very different ways of looking at or being interested in the world of human beings . |
| 13 | I was sorry to hear about but am glad to hear that apart from that everything is going well . |
| 14 | That power or authority is usually thought of as being political , and it often therefore takes the form of an idea of popular sovereignty — the people as the ultimate political authority . |
| 15 | It was somehow thought of as being irreverent but to members of your own family and people your own age or somebody younger than you you would use thee and thou . |
| 16 | With over 40 in each class and no supernumerary staff , the children with special learning needs were thought of as being dull and backward . |
| 17 | Whereas the emphasis of PPB could be thought of as being economic and financial , the emphasis of MBO was managerial . |
| 18 | Venetian blinds are often thought of as being suitable for kitchens but the atmosphere here is inevitably hot and sticky and the slats quickly become grimy . |
| 19 | On the one hand , the public sector institutions were thought of as being capable of maintaining the subject-specific national peer review system for themselves . |
| 20 | The company is thought of as being old fashioned . |
| 21 | Bacteria are generally thought of as being single celled . |
| 22 | Other forms of editing demand can also occur such as inserting information which was previously unavailable , or , combining two areas of information initially thought of as being independent but which are shown later to be related . |
| 23 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 24 | Tina had no moral sense about this question , no feeling that children ought to know who their fathers were or should be fathered by the men their mothers lived with or were married to . |
| 25 | In the third and highest phase of development the child understands the way in which she differs from and is interdependent with the outside world , and once again feels ‘ at home ’ in the world . |
| 26 | During the half-century after Kulin 's death his successors , who either sympathised with or were unable to control the heretic Bosnian Church , were the object of crusades led by the Hungarian kings with the blessing of the pope . |
| 27 | If any of the first five are included in your list , take heart , because these can be dealt with and are avoidable . |
| 28 | She was respected by everyone she worked with and was brilliant at the job . |
| 29 | This can come as surprise to Christians who have grown up in homes where the expression of anger was frowned upon as being unworthy and sinful . |
| 30 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |