Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This family was the second detected and our practice has since been modified to make a disclosure no sooner than 6 weeks . |
| 2 | Abnormal fibrous tissue overgrowth has long been known to affect a number of widely separate organ systems . |
| 3 | Defective cell adhesion has long been thought to play a part in the invasive and metastatic behaviour of neoplastic cells . |
| 4 | This can obviously be extended to allow a range of different sizes of operation code field , so that we can provide more operation codes for less secondary information ( such as operand fields ) in a fixed instruction length . |
| 5 | For them , all other things being equal , they will only be selected to make a sacrifice , where the benefit is twice the cost . |
| 6 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 7 | Deprived of a swim , Henrietta decided to wash her hair but the bathroom tap could only be persuaded to emit a trickle of dark brown water , after which it coughed , spluttered and ran dry . |
| 8 | Single people or couples living alone were encouraged to join a cookery pool , saving fuel by pooling rations and take it in turns to cook meals for other people in the group . |
| 9 | Afterwards , he expressed surprise that the Post Office had not been invited to send a representative . |
| 10 | As a consequence the BBC have not been invited to make a bid . |
| 11 | Some people tend to use the arrowed direction keys too much and neglect the more powerful methods available , especially if they have not been trained to use a word processor . |
| 12 | Skills learned in decommissioning AEA 's own facilities , at sites from Winfrith in Dorset to Dounreay in Scotland , have already been used to assist a number of pharmaceutical organisation in planning and implementing their own decommissioning operations . |
| 13 | Her musical career continues — she has just been asked to write a song for a new album by Belinda Carlisle . |
| 14 | Brosnan has just been asked to adorn a Birmingham building with his burnished , living metal . |
| 15 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
| 16 | And although , as we saw , initial anxieties about another war were largely overcome by easy and painless victories , the start of the war can nevertheless be seen to mark a caesura in the development of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ . |
| 17 | You will normally be asked to pay a deposit for tools and equipment ( often in the form of a cheque which is returned to you when you-return the goods ) . |
| 18 | The retention will normally be released to satisfy a claim against the vendor . |
| 19 | Two judges found the evidence of a contract too thin to grant an injunction on " balance of convenience " principles ; the third , Lord Justice Kerr , said that in principle an injunction should not be granted to stop a programme which depended on topicality and timing . |
| 20 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 21 | Do not be tempted to use a hair drier , for instance , as this will simply blow dust onto the board and also create unevenness in the lacquer . |
| 22 | I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls . |
| 23 | However , there do appear to exist examples of gradual variation which can not be made to share a superordinate ; in such cases the absence of boundaries between senses is an embarrassment . |
| 24 | You will not be asked to undergo a medical . |
| 25 | You will not be asked to undergo a medical . |
| 26 | The honoured guest will doubtless not be encouraged to take a crowd bath . |
| 27 | ‘ My message to young people is do not be persuaded to carry a weapon . |
| 28 | I think it is rebellious of you , that you can not be bothered to find a falsehood with which to flatter me . ’ |
| 29 | If there was not a ‘ ceiling ’ to potency level then serial dilution would not be needed to make a remedy , one could simply shake any dilution for different lengths of time as in the example give above . |
| 30 | MONEY handed to Nuclear Electric to pay for future decommissioning work should not be used to finance a Sizewell C power station , environment campaigners claimed yesterday . |