Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 2 | They are planning a 100 per cent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line . |
| 3 | The Gary Hutchinson Memorial Appeal is aiming to raise between £12,000 and £15,000 to pay for an image transmission system which will allow those pictures to be sent down a telephone line so specialists at another hospital can advise immediately whether a patient needs to be moved for surgery . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Guidance needs to be given on the action to be taken once the possibility of dementia is suspected . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A simple extension is to provide a particular value of the tag field which does not specify a data format , and which always causes an error condition to be signalled whenever an operand is accessed with this value in the tag field . |
| 8 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 9 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 10 | Royalty was to be one-twelfth and this to be paid at the end of every half-year : the said ore to be weighed up every three months and the banks to be cleared at the end of every such three months after weighing up . |
| 11 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 12 | Colwyn , who requested the match to be brought forward a week to avoid clashing with this weekend 's important game between Glamorgan and Durham at their Rhos on Sea ground , must have wished they had n't bothered . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |
| 15 | It meant a lot of hard work , dressings to be changed twice a day , support and stable bandages , plus massaging his legs to help circulation . |
| 16 | For instance I have increased the skimmed milk allowance from 4 ounces to 10 ounces per day and I have allowed red meat to be included twice a week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He should legislate now for a referendum to be held once the negotiations at Maastricht are complete . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | Such was their isolation that their way of life hardly reflected at all the kind to be found just a dozen miles away . |
| 23 | The Flow Country of Caithness and Sunderland and the Rhinns of Islay are likely to the first of 1,300 Scottish SSSIs to be reviewed under a last minute amendment to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With the Gunners fading alarmingly in their pursuit of the Championship , chairman Peter Hill-Wood has told Graham he has only to knock on his door to be handed virtually an open cheque book . |
| 26 | After the show , Michael Codron ordered the number to be performed exactly the same way for every performance thereafter . |
| 27 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |