Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Major obstacles remained over combat aircraft numbers , especially with regard to land-based naval aircraft , which the Soviet side had insisted on excluding unless a CFE agreement was to be extended to cover naval arms control in general . |
| 2 | Participatory democracy does need to be strengthened to promote active citizenship at local and national levels . |
| 3 | There can be no serious defensible pedigrees here ( even if we could decide what characteristics had to be inherited to ensure pure descent ) . |
| 4 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 5 | Orders were given for the fires to be kept alight each night . |
| 6 | In Hong Kong yesterday the Group of Seven leading industrial nations said they wanted to give new help to Moscow 's reforms , but both they and Russia 's deputy premier stressed that future aid had to be tailored to win Russian hearts and minds . |
| 7 | Are parents going to be invited to see talented children involved in a theatrical performance or are they coming just to see their child ‘ doing something ’ on the stage with all the other children in the school ? |
| 8 | Rating levels continue to be adjusted to reflect changing patterns in claims experience . |
| 9 | The persistently high inflation experienced in the United Kingdom in the 1970s highlighted the need for company accounts to be adjusted to reflect this factor . |
| 10 | The system uses well and log data to provide on-the-spot reservoir analysis , enabling drilling to be adjusted to maximise well productivity . |
| 11 | However , any drawings of the women were forbidden , and so had to be constructed using many sources of information . |
| 12 | You said , ‘ let's pretend to be engaged to tease big brother ’ , and you made it somehow seem as if it was a sudden whim . |
| 13 | erm How does one in any case fine a motorist who is n't standing by his car or sitting in it ? erm I would , if the question is shall we try it , if that is implied , I would say it 's worth trying in a very moderate way , it may require the police and the police representatives so to speak , the wardens if they 're going to be empowered to do this kind of thing , I think it 's going to force them to become very , very diplomatic and civilized in the way they handle it , but we of course too will have to learn to respond in a civilized manner . |
| 14 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 15 | Disciplines have to be undertaken to take special care with potentially flammable items and those which may be chemically/physically unstable when moved from store . |
| 16 | Old habits and traditions die hard and work will be needed to be undertaken to convince some parents that they now have a tree choice of school . |
| 17 | Debt charges ( principal and interest ) still have to be included in budget revenue expenses and therefore , in the end , local taxes have to be raised to finance these debt charges . |
| 18 | Decoration work in the house still had to be done and about £2,000 still had to be raised to meet annual running costs . |
| 19 | How these are to be assessed poses delicate problems for the social anthropologist as he attempts to evaluate local ideology and its relationship to economic and political commitments . |
| 20 | Mozart could not begin composing the arias to his opera before reaching Milan because they had to be written to suit each singer 's voice . |
| 21 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 22 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 23 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 24 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |
| 25 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with each of the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 26 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 27 | Since the population of adult males in Britain is many million , there are obvious savings to be made using these techniques . |
| 28 | The MPRP leader , President Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , stated afterwards that efforts had now to be made to promote further democratization and to overcome the current economic crisis . |
| 29 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 30 | Some attempt had to be made to build new links with the existing problem-based material even before the full implications for clients were known . |