Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 2 | The action to be taken on the discovery of a fire or potential fire situation i.e. call for assistance , use of first aid , fire fighting extinguishers ( if reasonably safe to do so ) . |
| 3 | Guidance needs to be given on the action to be taken once the possibility of dementia is suspected . |
| 4 | It may not in all cases be sufficient to advise a client that the action which he desires to take is not possible under the existing law ; circumstances may arise in which the proper answer is that if the law does not allow the action to be taken then the law itself should be changed . |
| 5 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 6 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 7 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 8 | Over the next few years the book saw suggestions for all manner of things — for packet tobaccos to be sold at shop prices , for a device to be put on the smoking room door to stop persistent slamming and a complaint that the bushes on the 5th made the hole a flukey . |
| 9 | Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has developed new technology that could save lives : it 's called image link and it allows images from hospital scanners to be transmitted down the telephone line to a consultant at the Infirmary . |
| 10 | The 1976 Act allows charges of possession and handling of explosives to be brought in the Republic , but not charges of conspiracy to cause murder or explosions . |
| 11 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. announced that for reasons to be given later the court would order that W. be transferred to the proposed specialist unit and there receive treatment without her consent . |
| 12 | He should legislate now for a referendum to be held once the negotiations at Maastricht are complete . |
| 13 | Such reform would have to be approved by the Djiboutian people in a referendum to be held once the " armed bands operating in the north " had been " chased off national territory " . |
| 14 | It was revealing to note that the single most commonly voiced response to being asked how the library would like to develop its overall programme , was in terms of training officers , or more training officers ’ time , mentioned by libraries of all sizes and types : |
| 15 | The job of choosing the endangered species to be put on the waiting list belongs to the Captive Breeding Specialist Group , set up by the World Conservation Union — IUCN . |
| 16 | After the show , Michael Codron ordered the number to be performed exactly the same way for every performance thereafter . |
| 17 | Were all the surface repositories on Mars to be included then the depletions would be reduced , but it is not certain that they would be eliminated . |
| 18 | Established to tackle thorny problems , it was hardly surprising that , in the words of Lord Shawcross , ‘ if you could n't find a solution which commanded general support , then at least you 'd find a way which would enable the whole matter to be put on the back shelf . ’ |
| 19 | He wants the matter to be put on the back burner until the Republic have taken another important step towards next year 's USA finals . |
| 20 | IN THE light of the recent debate on defence in the House of Commons , perhaps now is a good time for the people of Darlington to be told where the prospective Labour candidate stands on the issue of nuclear disarmament . |
| 21 | I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’ |
| 22 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 23 | Will he ensure that sufficient facilities are made available north of Manchester and Liverpool to allow people and freight to be carried on the trains ? |
| 24 | Each of these gates were fitted with a sluice , to enable the space between it and the gate on the tank to be flooded once the join had been made . |
| 25 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |