Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [be] [vb pp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're to be allowed the freedom of the outer ward , to take air and exercise with me sometimes . |
| 2 | LONG-STAY hospital patients in Ayr are to be given the opportunity of moving into small staffed community homes thanks to £2.6 million of bridging finance from the National Health Service . |
| 3 | DRIVERS in Scotland caught committing a range of traffic offences are to be given the option of agreeing an on-the-spot penalty with police . |
| 4 | If payments are to be certified the builder 's surveyor may delay the issue of the documentation until the interim certificate for the main contract is received from the architect . |
| 5 | The RS/6000-based models are to be called the FileNet Series 6000 . |
| 6 | Smugglers , drug addicts and couriers were frequent travellers , and if all the stories are to be believed the train carried every spy from the notorious Mata Hari to the faceless agents of the cold war . |
| 7 | A statement is expected before Christmas on how many of Hong Kong 's 3 million British passport-holders are to be granted the right of residence in the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | If all modules in the LIFESPAN system are to be listed the user should enter ‘ A ’ ; if only a subset is required the user should enter ‘ P ’ . |
| 9 | The outposts of Imperialism in the Third World are to be denied the support of Imperialist powers . |
| 10 | Not sauntering but fanatically rooted to their hallowed places at the end of the ‘ Up ’ main platform in most big stations are to be found the train-spotters , living proof of George Orwell 's observation that the English are a nation of collectors , in this case of train numbers . |
| 11 | These included the great British trading companies in West Africa , in which are to be found the origins of Unilever , the North American fruit companies in Central America , whose activities gave rise to the expression ‘ banana republic ’ , and the East India Company which was to provide the basis for British colonial administration in India . |
| 12 | If confusion and resentment are to be avoided the change-over must be simple to understand and must have been heralded so far in advance that it is almost an anti-climax when it finally comes . |
| 13 | In the primary care sector of the NHS , general practitioners ( GPs ) with large practices are to be offered the chance to control their own budgets and to buy hospital services on behalf of their patients . |
| 14 | Among the latter are to be counted the dynamics of a world economy which produce instabilities and difficulties within states and between states which outreach the control of any single ‘ centre ’ ; the rapid growth of transnational links which have stimulated new forms of collective decision-making involving states , intergovernmental organisations and an array of international pressure groups ; the build-up of military arms and the general means of warfare as a ‘ stable feature ’ of the contemporary political world . |
| 15 | The EP , consisting of four tracks recorded after the LP was completed , are to be deleted the week after release . |
| 16 | Ivan Lawler and Graham Burns are to be awarded the Pierre de Coubertin International Fair Play Trophy in Paris on 7th . |