Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Henry , the idea of being cheered on as you croaked , by Elinor , Mr and Mrs Is-the-Mitsubishi-Scratched-Yet , his mother , her mother , Maisie and anyone else with a few hours to spare was almost completely repulsive . |
| 2 | ‘ The last two groups to perform are from Donegal and Leitrim . |
| 3 | Hence , at a time when growing numbers were seeking houses the capacity of the cities to cope was being tested . |
| 4 | The easiest definitions to provide are those of North Shields and Cramlington . |
| 5 | Among the projects to benefit are a creche and health care bursaries . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important ground rules to establish are those about silence and stopping work . |
| 7 | Clearly Romania was well on its way to becoming an economic super-success and anyone with funds to spare was well advised to lend them to Ceauşescu . |
| 8 | Government exhortations to decentralize are ignored , largely due to the poor state of infrastructure outside the capital . |
| 9 | At the distant end , the conversion from electrical signals to sound is carried out by the earpiece and the listener receives the information . |
| 10 | But what I want the Hearts Mid-Lothian supporters to know is that if we do n't go to Hermestone , it is highly likely we 'll be remaining at Tynecastle , and we could put together a very attractive proposal there . |
| 11 | Finally , the disincentives to innovate are a familiar problem in public bureaucracies . |
| 12 | One of the advantages of our business is that the opportunities to progress are remarkably many and varied — there is no one set path which you have to adhere to . |
| 13 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 14 | However , the drivers to avoid are the one in 100 who complete fewer than 520 miles per year — they 're the ones you meet coming up the wrong side of the motorway . |
| 15 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 16 | Some good words to use are CAB JIG FED HAD JADE JAB BEACH BAG BADE CHEF FADE |
| 17 | In Coimbra , accommodation can be arranged either in pensions , hotels or with a family where opportunities to practise are plentiful . |
| 18 | Other aspects to consider are charges , possible conflicts of interest , and efficiency in dealing and settlement . |
| 19 | Copyright-cleared background music recordings can be obtained by mail order , and the addresses to contact are to be found in the relevant hobby magazines . |
| 20 | If you would like to help , the shops to contact are : |
| 21 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |
| 22 | In his biography of the earl of Pembroke , however , Dr Phillips has effectively disproved this notion and shown the baronial conciliators to have been royal supporters , rather than independents . |
| 23 | A similar majority ( 76 per cent ) , however , deemed the LEA guidelines to have been only reasonably adequate . |
| 24 | The result meant that both parties failed to capitalise on the widespread disaffection with the mainstream parties and in particular with the ruling Socialist Party ( PS ) which had been discovered in recent months to have been involved in a number of scandals . |
| 25 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 26 | I happen for my sins to have been shadow Chancellor since the last election in 1987 , during which period there have been three Chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 27 | One of the first fungi to show is lycoperdon perlatum . |
| 28 | British National Collections were made aware of the plan to sell the Turner — and the Constable and Gainsborough — but no proposals to purchase were received . |
| 29 | One of the first questions which this thesis attempts to answer is whether these three definitions of risk can be sensibly used , and if they can , how are the three types of risk related to one another ? |
| 30 | A more common method today , however ( because it is much quicker , often cheaper and one which can give certain security even before contracts to sell are exchanged ) , is the insurance indemnity policy issued on payment of a single premium . |