Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’
2 The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies .
3 Also in group situations , it may be the case that the senior executives are employed by the top company , so it will be necessary if they are to continue to work for the target to negotiate with each of them a revision to their service agreements .
4 Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock .
5 Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs .
6 He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’
7 The payment will be available to teaching staff until such time as the Teachers ' Superannuation ( Scotland ) Regulations are amended to provide for an injury allowance .
8 A total of 4,300,000 Angolans had been registered to vote by the July 31 deadline , but in the expectation of the registration of a further 1,000,000 voters , the UN team extended the deadline by another 10 days .
9 New modules have been developed to link with the requirements of the Road Transport Industry Training Board .
10 Various techniques have been developed to respond to the problem of incomplete crime statistics , of which ‘ victim surveys ’ and ‘ self-report ’ studies are the most common .
11 The methods and techniques which have been developed to cope with the child-rearing process seem to apply equally to families who are experiencing the difficulties and frustrations of caring for an ageing relative .
12 A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system .
13 As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution .
14 A child who had been taught to pray to a Mother in Heaven would have a religious life radically different from that of a Christian child .
15 The caravan has a canopy , disabled access and has been painted to look like a police car from the back ! ’
16 Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief .
17 Had it been disguised to blend into the wall ?
18 The court staff have been admonished to deal with a request for postal service by solicitor as a matter of priority .
19 These are team meetings where the analysis and design specifications and other documentation are exposed to review by the members of the team .
20 from the process of the regular review of departments and faculties by ad hoc review bodies , which always include strong external representation ( this formal review procedure has recently been amended to provide for the review of all departments and faculties on , approximately , a ten-year cycle rather than , as previously , simply associating reviews with the impending retirement of a head of department ) ; and
21 Sharing Coleman 's opinion of President Hafez Assad as the evil genius of state-sponsored terrorism , NALA had been formed to press for the withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli troops from Lebanon and for the restoration of democracy under the aegis of General Michel Aoun , who , in September 1988 , had been appointed head of an interim military government in Beirut by outgoing President Amin Gemayel .
22 A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees .
23 The six-member secretariat had been formed to deal with the SNC 's day-to-day administration .
24 In preceding weeks a seven-member committee had been formed to prepare for the privatization of 76 state companies , in which foreign investors would be able to acquire minority holdings .
25 An advisory group , which includes distinguished engineers and scientists from outside BP , has been formed to advise on the effectiveness of the new research and engineering structure as it evolves , as well as on the relevance and potential value of emerging technologies .
26 The points noted below are intended to serve as a guide on how to maximise this resource .
27 Some have a loop around the spat , between stops , others have loops which are intended to go around the spar and the extension of the vinyl sockets .
28 These measures could quite justifiably be regarded as something of a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since they are intended to deal with a problem the existence of which is almost totally unproven .
29 The seminars are intended to act as the basis for developing a future programme of collaborative research in the periphery .
30 Read the manufacturer 's descriptions carefully , for some of the smaller pools are really rock pools which are intended to sit near the summit of a rock garden so that water tumbles down a cascade unit into a pool below .
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