Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was followed by a second resolution , proposed by Dent ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) and seconded by J Paul ( Ayrshire ) to the effect : That the matter of this Association be referred to a special committee consisting of the President of this Conference ( the Rev W B Sleight ) as Chairman , and twelve gentlemen ( six deaf and dumb and six hearing ) . |
| 2 | In his speech on May 25 Arafat put forward a five-point plan proposing that : ( i ) an emergency UN military force be sent to the occupied territories to protect Palestinian civilians ; ( ii ) a special UN envoy be appointed to deal with the Palestinian issue ; ( iii ) a UN resolution be passed calling for end to Jewish settlement in the territories ; ( iv ) UN members adopt sanctions against Israel ; and ( v ) the five permanent members of the Security Council convene to prepare for an international conference on the Middle East . |
| 3 | That the potential of music for fostering ecumenical relationships be utilised to the full by the Church at all levels ( 503–504 ) . |
| 4 | This happened most recently when all the constituent FECMA associations agreed that the Institute 's views on an EC proposal for a Directive on the Processing of Personal Data be submitted to the European Commission as the official FECMA view . |
| 5 | It requested donations be sent to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 6 | Can data on radon exposure and cancer risks in uranium miners be applied to the general population ? |
| 7 | Nor can the elimination of two year waits be attributed to the internal market . |
| 8 | It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed . |
| 9 | Kimura ( 1977b ) tabulates seven such cases reported in the literature and it is notable that in every case the lesion responsible could with reasonable confidence be localised to the left cerebral hemisphere . |
| 10 | When might such a file be preferred to an inverted file for multiple-key processing ? |
| 11 | Legislation was passed which required that persons who had been sentenced to an aggregate of more than three months imprisonment during the past seven years be committed to a superior court when charged with another offence . |
| 12 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 13 | When somebody suggested , early in the LP era , that eventually all the old 78s we knew — and possibly many that we did n't — would one day be transferred to the new medium , he was answered by the shaking of heads . |
| 14 | The President of the European Commission , Jacques Delors , speaking at the same conference , said more explicitly that he could conceive of a situation in which France 's nuclear umbrella could one day be extended to the entire EC under a common doctrine . |
| 15 | Scargill hoped for a ‘ domino effect ’ , to be promoted if necessary by the type of mass picketing which had been perfected a decade earlier , and the National Executive supported him ; only three members voted for a proposal that the demand for a national strike be put to a national ballot . |
| 16 | To what extent can the experiences and theories of communication and development be applied to the religious sphere ? |
| 17 | Will their rights be transferred to a commercial company or will some other arrangement be made through the Government or CalMac ? |
| 18 | That the provision of the Education Acts be extended to the deaf and dumb and that such children should receive compulsory education between the ages of seven and sixteen . |
| 19 | It duly approached the Educational Research Centre of the Essex Institute of Higher Education with the suggestion that a proposal for funding be made to the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) . |
| 20 | This allowed an individual citizen to request that case be referred to the Constitutional Council if he or she felt that fundamental rights were being undermined . |
| 21 | We have suggested a position close to the kitchen window and it could of course be converted to a raised bed or pool at a later date . |
| 22 | Only when that bar in the bathroom was wafer thin or the toilet roll down to a few sheets , would the replacement be moved to the Forward Depot — the bathroom cupboard . |
| 23 | Both parties wish to enter into an agreement whereby category ‘ A ’ and ‘ B+ ’ paintings which include the most significant paintings of the Collection be loaned to a Spanish Foundation for their maintenance and public exhibition for a period of up to ten years . |
| 24 | As the European Court delays are providing a valuable premium for some people and holding up injunctive relief in this country , should not further representations be made to the European Court to deal with the problem as an injunctive matter so that certainty is quickly returned to the courts of this country ? |
| 25 | In response to the new revelations and to the government 's reaction to the scandal , the ANC president Nelson Mandela renewed his call for the State President 's resignation and demanded that control of the security forces be surrendered to an interim government of national unity . |
| 26 | According to an early eighteenth-century edition of an early Han source , it was reported of the emperor Wen that he ‘ acquired a drinking cup of jade , on which was carved this inscription : ‘ Master of Mankind , may Thy Life be prolonged to the great delight of this world ! |
| 27 | A fifth Summer of Love be confined to a four-day binge in August . |
| 28 | These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code . |
| 29 | ‘ I can imagine no greater handicap upon any universal creed than that the Son of God should come upon earth as a Jew and His Church be left to the tender mercies of the Wops . ’ |
| 30 | Keith Mitchell , director of education , has recommended consideration be given to the new nursery units at the meeting . |