Example sentences of "[verb] to be [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a tight turn the back foot will need to be placed a long way back on the board . |
| 2 | From that point of view , it has to be awarded a Practical PC recommendation , and mine as well . |
| 3 | It either comes from the river beds or is scraped from rock ( tufa ) higher up the mountain — either way it has to be carried a long way over steep slopes . |
| 4 | So it 's sort of , you know , we want to be favoured because we want all the reward , we want to be given a sweet , we want |
| 5 | Let's suppose you want to be offered a challenging new job . |
| 6 | This means that farmers in these dales may opt to be paid a certain amount per hectare by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food to manage their lands so as to ensure the traditional landscape features of stone buildings , field walls and flower-rich meadows for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 7 | Many women deserve to be raped a Tory M P's wife said yesterday . |
| 8 | First of all the headline says , Women deserve rape says M P's wife , and then the front page exclusive , Many women deserve to be raped a Tory M P's wife said yesterday . |
| 9 | They will expect to be dealt a perfect bridge hand from time to time , and will scarcely trouble to write home about it when it happens . |
| 10 | Indeed , you can not expect to be paid a great deal , but on the credit side you have no overheads and you will find the practice valuable , both in reading the pattern and using the machine . |
| 11 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 12 | A first novel by an unknown British writer is n't going to be given a huge advance . ’ |
| 13 | You know , and then you leave it It 's what they term soft and it 's got to be left to sort of harden you know , and then some instances some people prefer a dull polish , they do n't like a a very bright and they 'll say what they call pumi powdered pumice stone and they put that sprinkle that on , and it 's got to be done a certain way with a brush so to not to leave any marks . |
| 14 | It was to keep down the population of pathogenic microorganisms in hospital that ‘ damp dusting ’ of all laying surfaces used to be considered a nursing activity . |
| 15 | It does nobody any favour to be termed a heavy drinker rather than an alcoholic . |
| 16 | And they like to be taught a new board game |
| 17 | The 1333–5 secession from Oxford , firstly to Northampton and then to Stamford , is factual , but the group of teachers and students was never sufficiently large or established to be considered a proper university . |
| 18 | The Tykes switched from Pakistan 's Aqib Javed because he would have to be given a two-year contract under TCCB rules while 21-year-old Benjamin could sign for a year . |
| 19 | It is however also clear that the concept of legitimate expectations , like many legal concepts , can be used in more than one way ; it does not have to be given a restrictive interpretation . |
| 20 | The movies had become a story-telling medium , and , as had been the case with earlier fictional forms such as the melodrama and the ‘ dime novel ’ , the stories would necessarily have to be given a recognizable social setting . |
| 21 | So to limit the interpretation of the word would follow the principle that words in a statute which have , or can have , a general meaning may have to be given a specialised and narrower meaning in order to make sense of the legislation and to avoid the conclusion that changes have been made to the existing law which can not have been intended by Parliament . |
| 22 | ‘ I know the piece ’ , he wrote ; ‘ it is a very silly play and the translation will have to be altered a great deal if it is to work as an opera … |
| 23 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 24 | Using 1 to 9 as the base , to cover 26 subjects some would have to be allocated a two-character notation . |
| 25 | For AT&T to be seriously contemplating selling off Unix it would have to be guaranteed a self-sustaining source of the software , since so many of its internal operations , like telephone switching , are Unix-dependent . |
| 26 | Terry Sprayson will now have to be found a new job by Gloucestershire County Council . |
| 27 | The custom of marriage has gained strength , in the sense that more people are entering into it and that it seems to be considered a necessary prelude to having children . |
| 28 | Some may prefer to be given a global picture of what is involved in the task and then be allowed to fill in the details as they need them . |
| 29 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 30 | Mr Randall said : ‘ In general terms , we do see room for hacking to be made a criminal offence . ’ |