Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People you 'd been helping might offer you something . |
| 2 | The department to which you are applying can advise you on these extra costs . |
| 3 | Knowing how these processes are organized will help us develop better computer systems for object naming , in addition to helping us understand how object naming develops in children , and how it can break down after brain damage . |
| 4 | So we know that erm we 're standing let's say we 're standing a hundred and twenty metres |
| 5 | I am confident that what has been agreed will enable us to achieve that without spending any cash over and above that already in our normal annual budget over the next two years . ’ |
| 6 | Her known associates are all deceased , although a sighting which has not been discounted would put her in the company earlier this year of Hawk-That-Settles , a Navaho medicine man and dealer in controlled substances . |
| 7 | very energetic and I should be alright now after been to sleep should do I 'm alright I ca n't think of anything I wan na get I want up town anyway nothing think of anything |
| 8 | When you are feeling particularly tired , you may occasionally become very irritated and verbalise your frustration , but if you care enough to want to keep going , the one you are supporting will know it , and forgive you , as you must forgive yourself . |
| 9 | I hope that the fans who are travelling will make it a great day for the city , have fun and enjoy themselves , and behave . ’ |
| 10 | First , an investor who holds a long position in shares which are overpriced can sell them and buy the relatively underpriced index future ( a swap or stock replacement ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , without interfering , an adult who is obviously interested in what they are doing can encourage them to talk about the choices they are making regarding size , shape and texture . |
| 12 | Clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer : ( a ) believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them : ( i ) to cause physical injury to himself or another ; ( ii ) to damage property ; ( iii ) to interfere with evidence ; ( iv ) to assist him to escape ; or ( b ) has reasonable grounds for believing that they may be evidence relating to an offence . |
| 13 | A full supporting line up will be announced shortly and any local bands wishing to be considered can contact me . |
| 14 | If the Constitutional Code has revealed Bentham as an important theorist of representative democracy , the volumes to be edited will establish him as a major theorist of constitutional government generally . |
| 15 | He says that anyone who wants to be noticed could drive it . |
| 16 | ‘ And then , ’ he added , whispering and grinning , ‘ if that ever was to happen — which it wo n't — the birds that have never been caged would kill 'em . ’ |
| 17 | This paper is intended to examine how changing the way branches are run could enable us to get more members involved and expand the work done . |
| 18 | The way they are phrased may make it hard for us to understand their origin . |
| 19 | The mythical story of Cassandra functions as an allegory for the fate of alternative forms of language use ; truthful but ‘ unheeded and unhinged ’ ( 12,144 ) , the figure of Cassandra is an example of the extreme to which women 's frustration at not being heard can push them . |
| 20 | Their participation hinged on a variety of factors such as personal situation at the time of receiving the response sheet ; feelings of obligation towards the two agencies involved in the sampling ; perception that being interviewed might help them in the future ; boredom with prison life ; and simple curiosity . |
| 21 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 22 | In an attempt to reduce the death toll , one police force has launched a campaign to get a simple message across to cyclists — that being seen could save them from being killed . |
| 23 | It also said that solicitors employed by large companies should not be allowed to appear in higher courts because the fact that they were employed might stop them from showing impartiality and detachment . |
| 24 | That 's what we were saying used to say we do . |
| 25 | Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily . |
| 26 | Instances of how some of these registers were destroyed may give us a pointer to the fate of our own ; in some cases rats and mice destroyed them , other instances of fire , damp , silver fish , some being stolen and a case where one vicar used the sheets to baste his goose . |
| 27 | Familiarity with the case , product or service you are discussing may make you blinkered . |
| 28 | This similarity in the way DOS commands and programs are invoked can lead you to question if there is much functional difference between a DOS command and a program . |
| 29 | I think that the genetic er , testing that was , that is now law , has to go a long way towards finding criminals , who once they 've been tested will find it very difficult to commit crime again , because they 're on record , and they 'll be on computer record . |
| 30 | Using these questions to monitor what is happening will help you spot conflict early and react to deal with it . |