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

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1 If the answer to the pursuer 's case is that the fault for the accident rests wholly or partly with someone else , consideration should be given now to service of a Third Party Notice by which that other party blamed can be brought into the action .
2 ( ii ) Pupils should be taught how to respond to the way information is structured and presented so that they are able to identify key points .
3 Also she would be taught how to work to the B.I.E. Code of Ethics .
4 If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement .
5 Only those who were regarded as ‘ fit ’ could be trusted not to trade on the despair of people , at their wits end , reduced for the first time in their lives to seeking a loan .
6 Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that .
7 The Secretary of State was thus granted a discretionary power to release a person serving a sentence of life imprisonment subject to two conditions : ( 1 ) He must be recommended so to do in a particular case by the Parole Board ( which was constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and ( 2 ) He shall not do so except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice together with the trial judge if available .
8 ‘ ( a ) A person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse .
9 ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’
10 In this area , at least , the would-be functionalist is offered the kind of rich and intricate structure that may match the detailed organization of linguistic structure , and so can be claimed plausibly to stand in a causal relation to it .
11 Alternatively– a messy jumble of pipes could actually be picked out to look like an interesting feature in its own right .
12 The estimates in Figure 8.2 are not based on observed cratering , which happens far too infrequently , but on the exposure of each planet to the small bodies that can be seen today to move among the terrestrial planets .
13 If this happens the relatively fast marching High Elf infantry can be moved forward to attack from the front .
14 In a book concerned with the need for a common policy to cover the education of all children at all stages of their careers , it might be thought right to start with a discussion of the primary school .
15 It proposes setting up a sort of Federal Reserve system of central banks in which all 15 republics would be represented — and which would be told not to lend to the government .
16 It is an aspect of performance practice where several cogent arguments can always be trotted out to avoid considering the hard evidence .
17 By now she was awake enough to feel a stab of regret that she would n't be going out to glide over the surface of that calm blue water after all .
18 ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’
19 The team will learn basic interviewing skills and be shown how to deal with the technical side of the three-month survey .
20 Excitable children can have a similar effect , and so they may also have to be shown how to behave towards a puppy .
21 Almost 1 million people will be helped back to work in the coming year by employment and training programmes .
22 A constant flow of people was being seen by various clerks and secretaries , while at regular intervals one or other of the judges would be called away to advise on a particular problem or situation .
23 And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’
24 The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers .
25 It can be extremely helpful if the therapist tells the patient that he is concerned about him , although caution must be exercised not to step outside a professional relationship nor to encourage over-dependency .
26 In Kate Norgate 's words , the question " stirred up a trouble which was never again to be laid wholly to rest till the child who was its as yet innocent cause had broken his father 's heart " .
27 He would be coming round to collect in a few minutes ' time .
28 combining abilities : committees enable the differing skills of its various members to be brought together to deal with a problem .
29 As the pattern of industrial life goes on and the health of the nation enables people to live longer , the number of retired people will increase and new , attractive facilities will have to be made for them in Britain , or they will be lured away to live on the continent of Europe and spend their money there .
30 Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume .
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