Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , because the PRS has a carved top , the gap from the underside of the bridgeplate to the table may need to be set a fraction more than ″ , depending upon the amount of ‘ pull up ’ required on the tremolo . |
| 2 | Obviously there has to be ‘ give and take ’ on both sides ; for example , I would not expect to be guaranteed a space for the cycle if I turned up without a reservation . |
| 3 | But the incident has drawn attention to the fact that since the collapse of the Soviet Union , Europe with Britain as America 's main ally can no longer expect to be guaranteed a place at the centre of United States foreign policy . |
| 4 | So and , and I think maybe it 's a good idea that we write and say that we would like to be given an opportunity to speak to them . |
| 5 | Police General Carlos Pulido told Caracol radio that Wednesday 's crash site was in an area so inaccessible that the site may have to be declared a cemetery . |
| 6 | In the ‘ worst case scenario , ’ say MAFF and DoE , ‘ it is possible that most of the Anglian region would have to be declared a water protection zone as well as substantial parts of Severn Trent and other areas , accounting in total for the great bulk of the UK arable protection area . ’ |
| 7 | On the former definition , pushing someone in a river would have to be called a signal because it certainly would change his behaviour-but this would be excluded by the definition requiring the influence of the signal to be mediated by the recipient 's sense organs . |
| 8 | There may also be shared sites which would have to be divided , or where one party would have to be given a licence or lease by the other . |
| 9 | And I had to say yes , because I did n't want to be called a snob too . |
| 10 | Wide boy Gary chats up Sue but she does n't want to be called a slut . |
| 11 | A condition to be rectified as quickly as possible if she did n't want to be labelled a freak , or worse . |
| 12 | And since the master-manufacturer also financed the provision of land , buildings , machinery and equipment he was — or had been — also what would come to be called a capitalist . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd love to be considered a novelty act . |
| 14 | ‘ … no person other than an authorised person shall issue or cause to be issued an investment advertisement in the United Kingdom unless its contents have been approved by an authorised person ’ . |
| 15 | Section 57(1) of the FSA stipulates that no person other than an authorised person may issue or cause to be issued an investment advertisement in the UK unless its contents have been approved by an authorised person . |