Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm tempted to suggest the Mercedes S-class for being visually boring , but I respect Bruno Sacco too much , so I 'll plump for any current Maserati for not living up to the legend . |
| 2 | From Madras my wife and I were taken to see the Shore Temples at Mahabalipuram and beside this is ( or was ) a very large boulder resting on the hillside . |
| 3 | In the middle of these difficulties I was invited to visit the Chicago headquarters of Binks Manufacturing ( Binks Bullows 's parent company ) to negotiate selling the machine to the US . |
| 4 | Like Pandora 's box , from it came a screw driver , a Stanley knife , scissors and an adjustable spanner , all of which were used to keep the Stoddard Templeton units in tip top condition . |
| 5 | The changes , which were designed to bring the Hong Kong exchange into line with international practice , were opposed mainly by the smaller Chinese brokers , and supported by the larger international institutions which had moved increasingly into the Hong Kong exchange in the 1980s . |
| 6 | First , the licence fee is voluntary : nobody is forced to buy the BBC 's product . |
| 7 | From the flamboyant tone in which the speculators discussed the prospects for Denwood , a stranger within its precincts might have come to the conclusion that he was standing upon ground which was destined to become the Winnipeg of the Middle West . |
| 8 | Prior to announcing his candidacy Bush had on Feb. 6 unveiled a health care package which was designed to overhaul the US health system and to win back the initiative on what was widely perceived to be an important electoral issue . |
| 9 | Individuals serving abroad who were found to have the HIV virus were sent home for tests and then restricted to bases within the U.S. |
| 10 | Like all young Germans she was compelled to join the Hitler Youth organisation . |
| 11 | She was thought to haunt the Dane Hills of Leicestershire in England , and to live in a cave she had dug out of the rock with her own hands . |
| 12 | She was allowed to leave the Mount Carmel centre halfway through the siege . |
| 13 | The WWF spokesman said that canoeing was not a problem but until the law is changed ‘ a canoe must be treated in the same way as the QE2 ’ and if one were permitted to use the Derwent then so would the other . |
| 14 | Third , on the fundamental issues of foreign policy , although they claim independence they are forced to follow the Moscow line . |
| 15 | With their papers impounded by the local police chief , they are persuaded to bomb the Niarunas . |
| 16 | This would protect the holdings against a future decline of the dollar , but at the cost of pushing the risk on to the United States if it were required to compensate the IMF ( which would take over these dollar holdings ) for any losses . |
| 17 | It is intended to take the Flea to local fetes , etc and to do this a custom-built trailer to ease moving it around will be built . |
| 18 | Thameside Aviation Museum is open to the public on the last Sunday of every month and Bank Holidays , it is planned to have the Harvard on display throughout its restoration . |
| 19 | IT IS FORBIDDEN TO CROSS THE TOACKS . |
| 20 | Partly it is designed to help the EC pursue a ‘ high degree of convergence of economic performance . ’ |
| 21 | Covering five areas — firm procedures , internal audit quality control review , specialisation , listed/regulated audit clients and a summary of audit fees and clients — it is designed to help the JMU understand the firm . |
| 22 | Sir , — ‘ It is proposed to retain the Ipswich airport as a two runway , grass airfield , for mainly recreational and business use by light aircraft . |
| 23 | It is expected to contact the St Petersburg Institute for Research and Development of Biotechnical Systems , the whale 's owners , to offer a home to Brightness which , in commercial terms , is worth about £100,000 , excluding a premium for his fame . |
| 24 | Muller will watch from the stand knowing he is destined to face the England B team at Bristol on Saturday in preparation for a confrontation of which he could once only dream of : ‘ Facing Will Carling and Jeremy Guscott at Twickenham . ’ |
| 25 | This option presents the user with the list of packages for which he is required to endorse the SSR . |
| 26 | It was decided to cancel the Manchester landing and fly direct to Prestwick . |
| 27 | Once it was decided to launch the Bond the Product Development team set to work in determining the financial aspects of the plan — how it would actually work , etc . |
| 28 | After these discussions it was decided to drop the Wolf e Tone Societies tag , and an ad hoc body was formed which organised a seminar on civil rights on 25 November 1966 in Belfast . |
| 29 | At a meeting of the State Council on Oct. 11 , it was decided to abolish the USSR KGB ( Committee for State Security ) , and to form , on its basis , units concerned with border defence , intelligence and counterintelligence . |
| 30 | It was hoped to reassure the Warsaw Pact about European security , to develop a strong German role in central Europe and eventually to break down barriers with East Germany . |