Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not rest until the death has been avenged and the murderer punished , when it will fly to the Afterworld and inform the victim of his murderer 's fate . |
| 2 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 3 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 4 | Some protestors demonstrated against her Dresden visit ; wartime bitterness had earlier been aroused when the Queen Mother on May 31 unveiled a statue in London to Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris , wartime head of Bomber Command , and when German plans were disclosed ( but subsequently cancelled ) to commemorate officially on Oct. 5 the 50th anniversary of the development of the V2 rocket technology on the island Oie off Peenemünde on the Baltic coast . |
| 5 | Now , that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case . |
| 6 | Otherwise , the vector scores of the words in the neighbourhood of the result are calculated and the word with the closest score is taken as the answer . |
| 7 | The first count of the declaration stated that the plaintiff had commenced action against the defendant in the Court of Exchequer to recover two sums of £700 and £1,300 , respectively , issue had been joined and the hearing was to take place on December 7 , 1844 ; that the defendant , on December 6 , 1844 , promised the plaintiff that , if he ( plaintiff ) would forbear prosecuting the proceedings until December 14 , the defendant would on that day pay the money with interest and costs ; that the plaintiff , relying on this promise , forbore prosecuting the action until the day named but that the defendant did not pay the money or costs . |
| 8 | The election of a mayor had been delayed since the resignation of a candidate originally elected on Feb. 9 ( an independent supported by the HDUR ) . |
| 9 | Although the military authorities soon vacated the school to move into Doncaster Racecourse across the road , the re-opening of the school had been delayed and the Christmas holidays had to be cut to make up for the loss of time . |
| 10 | The airport 's opening has been delayed because the island is subsiding . |
| 11 | Increases are given when the husband or wife Teaches 65 , with a bigger increase still at 75 . |
| 12 | The paying-in slips are completed and the cash and slips are handed in to the bank cashier who will check that they are all correct , stamp the counterfoil and retain the paying-in slip . |
| 13 | Can I assist here ? the motion that has been mooted and the amendment has been proposed the amendment has been accepted the question now is whether what the the motion has been made and uh it is a matter for you to go to your suggested that certain members be allowed to speak at the end of the day it is a matter for you to decide uh control of the who is allowed to speak on that particular motion as amended of course |
| 14 | These involve looking at whether personnel or premises were shared , the nature of the businesses , the way that the subsidiary 's profits are treated and the amount of decision-making autonomy held by the subsidiary 's directors . |
| 15 | All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist , giving the blend its distinctive characteristics . |
| 16 | You may also need to set jumpers on the motherboard according to the type of RAM devices you are using and the video card . |
| 17 | It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements . |
| 18 | In the absence of formal evidence , this claim can not be checked , but it has always been recognized that the choice of Gloucester to head the government was an obvious possibility for the dying king . |
| 19 | In the absence of formal evidence , this claim can not be checked , but it has always been recognized that the choice of Gloucester to head the government was an obvious possibility for the dying king . |
| 20 | Going back to the early thoughts of the RHA on the matter in the mid-1970s , it had been recognized that the reduction in the hospital populations meant that there would be competition for any savings between the hospitals themselves and district services . |
| 21 | It had been repainted since the war , but , as far as she knew , it had never given forth music . |
| 22 | The lino on the floor was scuffed and torn , the windows nearly opaque with grime , and the walls looked as if they had never been repainted since the place was constructed . |
| 23 | The technique used is much the same as that used in hospitals to find fractures in bones ; where the metal is broken the film is blackened by the X-rays which pass unhindered through the break ; where the metal is densest , more of the X-rays are stopped and the film remains pale . |
| 24 | But the warning signs are flashing before the league gets under way next week . |
| 25 | At the end of the accounting period the revenue accounts are totalled and the balance , positive or negative , transferred to the profit and loss account . |
| 26 | At the end of the accounting period the revenue accounts are totalled and the balance , positive or negative , transferred to the profit and loss account . |
| 27 | A formal Iraqi undertaking not to interfere with helicopter inspections , issued to the UN Security Council on Sept. 24 , appeared subsequently to have been withdrawn after the government informed the Security Council on Sept. 26 that it would not endorse such inspections until further discussions with the UN-IAEA commission . |
| 28 | Foreign residents in Lhasa said later that many of China 's troops have been withdrawn and the security situation was more relaxed . |
| 29 | the grapes are crushed and the juice ( or must ) and skins go into the fermentation vat . |
| 30 | has been undertaken and the result analysed in the full report , the summary of which is produced as a |