Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] and [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 2 | If this is accepted , then certainly in the simple cases of pure shear the extension should be acceptable and be capable of experimental test . |
| 3 | Thus the golist must be machine-stored and is used by the computer in the assignment of index terms . |
| 4 | Must be crazy and be able to handle a blonde female . |
| 5 | The conclusion must be , once again , that the need to worship a ‘ god ’ and to have a place for that worship is of paramount importance , and must be satisfied and be regarded as an essential part of any society of whatever political persuasion . |
| 6 | Health , Wag , and Wag might be alright and be discontinuous and therefore I should imagine it follows through . |
| 7 | I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that . |
| 8 | Police say the man may be dangerous and are warning women to keep their car doors locked when travelling alone . |
| 9 | The distinction between individuals in government and the senior civil service , banks and corporations is often more blurred than in western countries , and therefore this elite tends to form a coherent and powerful set of economic interests , ( although these may be contradictory and are usually very diverse ) and are not only represented in government but often are the government . |
| 10 | James 's comment , when the news of her birth was brought to him , that ‘ it cam wi' a lass and it will gang wi' a lass ’ ( a reference to the way in which the house of Stewart had come to the throne , through the marriage of Walter the Steward to Robert Bruce 's daughter Marjorie ) may be apocryphal and was , as it turned out , inaccurate ; the ‘ lass ’ who was to bring Stewart rule to an end was not Queen Mary , but Queen Anne in 1714 . |
| 11 | If you 've taken down a door leading from hall to living room , or kitchen to dining room , you may be lucky and be left with interesting architrave mouldings around doorways , but if they 're plain modern ones , you 'll probably rip them out with the door . |
| 12 | If these latter involve the nose and pharynx , this leads to ‘ snuffles ’ in which there is a profuse nasal discharge which may be bloodstained and is teeming with treponemes . |
| 13 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 14 | It would be tedious and is not , I think , necessary to examine them all but I must seek to trace the development of the law through the main decisions and I intend to refer to them in chronological order . |
| 15 | It would be arrogant and is in any case unnecessary , to imply that the study of language is unique in that respect . |
| 16 | The experiment gave every indication that this would be possible and was a great technical success — but when the elected representatives were asked to agree a city-wide scheme , they voted against it . |
| 17 | However any such rule would be inelegant and be impossible to apply in practice because of the prohibitive amount of case checking required . |
| 18 | Er , I would ask delegates to bear in mind that trade union members can already join er , on the youth rates er , obviously an extension of that scheme would be welcome and is welcomed by the C E C. |
| 19 | The consequences of this activity will be far-reaching and are being watched by other countries with interest , since the Panel is the first creation of its kind in the world . |
| 20 | He/she will be self-motivated and be able to work as part of a team on a variety of challenging projects . |
| 21 | And when it comes to crossing the traffic , designated places are set aside , a limited time is given to cross , and some , perhaps through their own lack of judgement , will be unlucky and be run over . |
| 22 | The first release of Informix-Gateway will be Unix-based and is to support links to IBM 's Systems Application Architecture databases so that Informix users can transparently access DB2 data bases . |
| 23 | The first release of Informix-Gateway will be Unix-based and is to support links to IBM 's Systems Application Architecture databases so that Informix users can transparently access DB2 databases : however , the gateway has not yet been formally tested with AS/400 database . |
| 24 | There is also the problem that the researcher 's observations can be subjective and are difficult to record in a systematic way . |
| 25 | In my view this is not the correct approach because membership administration can be expensive and is a variable cost depending on size … a society must set its membership rates on the basis of generating the revenue surplus it needs to meet its expenditure objectives . |
| 26 | The main drawback with both types is that they use special paper which can be expensive and is only available in rolls which can make storage difficult as the printer does n't produce separate pages . |
| 27 | Herpes simplex infection and shingles can be severe and are treated with acyclovir . |