Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point out , as the latter have always been proletarian , it is senseless to see them as being proletarianized . |
| 2 | That period is to all intents and purposes part of the sentence , and he ought to know everything that is said about him before it is fixed . |
| 3 | I 've no business to ask , but I do like to know everything that 's going on here , and what with the measles , I 've been so dreadfully out of touch . ’ |
| 4 | With chemistry , things like organic chemistry , where you had to know every reaction , you could n't work it out , you had to know everything that was going to happen — there was n't a lot of understanding involved , it was mainly slogging . |
| 5 | Though Marcus no longer took part in this process , he never missed a single morning ; he liked to know everything that was going on — how many cargo-ships berthed for loading or unloading — how many hours taken to clear each one — how many men needed on every job . |
| 6 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 7 | She liked to know everything that was happening in and around Avonlea . |
| 8 | We have , then , two different kinds of language as potential objects for study : one abstracted in order to teach a language or literacy , or to study how the rules of language work , and another which has been used to communicate something and is felt to be coherent ( and may , or may not , happen to correspond to a correct sentence or a series of correct sentences ) . |
| 9 | They glanced at Tabitha encumbered with Perks , forcing their claws from her arms , standing on one foot trying to shake one that was hanging on to her leg . |
| 10 | Like to catch something that was hanging on the tree , no one would catch it and hang there . |
| 11 | Alternatively , larvae which fail to establish themselves and are passed out in the faeces , may find another host and begin producing eggs . |
| 12 | I do n't mean just the forgery , and that 's a hell of a job , trying to fake something that 's aged as badly as these — it 's the numbering . |
| 13 | He had tried to reach her but was beaten back by flames . |
| 14 | Nor can I remember any sense of restraint : the landscape belonged to me and I to it , and I was free to explore it and be nurtured by it in a subconscious Wordsworthian sort of way . |
| 15 | We applied to hire it but were told it was not available until refurbished and handed over to the community association . |
| 16 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 17 | I realise that my hon. Friends who represent constituencies in other parts of the country are still waiting to hear something that was implied during the passage of the Bill . |
| 18 | We do n't know how Beethoven conducted his music or how he would have conducted if he had been able to hear everything that was going on , but we know from Brahms 's letters that he allowed himself sometimes great flexibility . |
| 19 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 20 | But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other . |
| 21 | Speaking very broadly , such effort is simply the attempt to connect something that is given with something other than itself . |
| 22 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 23 | The Government have offered the excuse that that happened under a Labour Government in 1977 , as if it was right to continue to do something that was done once before for a short time . |
| 24 | if you were off to do something and being mucked around for the day , in n it ? |
| 25 | ‘ The only problem I would have with the NICMA 's recommendations is that Laura is too young to understand everything that is explained to her , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Thus the audience fail to understand everything that is offered . |
| 27 | While Eliot might mock Pound 's concerns with primitive society , it continued to interest him as is indicated by allusions in his correspondence to devil doctors , Bali , and Trobriand Islanders . |
| 28 | Charles asked to read it and was told he could n't . |
| 29 | Super Channel wanted to run it but were told by the I.T.C. they 'd be pulled off the air if they did . |
| 30 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |