Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [subord] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today committee members were meeting to decide whether to close the school down . |
| 2 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 3 | After Ken Evans had borne the brunt of the blame in the official inquiry report , senior Jockey Club stewards were meeting to decide whether to summon the part-timer before a disciplinary committee . |
| 4 | My old friend Fred Emery , who presented the programme from the Falklands , told us — and I have confirmed this from other sources — that the Cabinet is struggling to decide whether to build a new airstrip alongside Stanley 's existing facilities or , as has been hinted at in the Commons , on an entirely new site . |
| 5 | As long ago as 1925 , when the American Victor company was trying to decide whether to use the Western Electric recording system , Victor executives complained that ‘ it did n't sound like a phonograph ’ . |