Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most EC members are now no longer ashamed of being seen to strike tactical alliances with Britain . |
| 2 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 3 | Contraction with is used to generate associated tensors . |
| 4 | The absurdity of beef dumping is all the greater because the EC claims to be trying to support African cattle farmers . |
| 5 | Major obstacles remained over combat aircraft numbers , especially with regard to land-based naval aircraft , which the Soviet side had insisted on excluding unless a CFE agreement was to be extended to cover naval arms control in general . |
| 6 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 7 | In Hong Kong yesterday the Group of Seven leading industrial nations said they wanted to give new help to Moscow 's reforms , but both they and Russia 's deputy premier stressed that future aid had to be tailored to win Russian hearts and minds . |
| 8 | Are parents going to be invited to see talented children involved in a theatrical performance or are they coming just to see their child ‘ doing something ’ on the stage with all the other children in the school ? |
| 9 | Rating levels continue to be adjusted to reflect changing patterns in claims experience . |
| 10 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 11 | How these are to be assessed poses delicate problems for the social anthropologist as he attempts to evaluate local ideology and its relationship to economic and political commitments . |
| 12 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 13 | Some attempt had to be made to build new links with the existing problem-based material even before the full implications for clients were known . |
| 14 | Clearly , many factors influence reinsertion rates , but these factors and alternative treatments , such as hearing aids , need to be evaluated to avoid repeated operations in young children . |
| 15 | Circular and linear DNA appear to be cleaved using different mechanisms , and cleavage of linear DNA may require a second endonuclease molecule . |
| 16 | The new religion had to be seen to meet existing needs , and not to overtax the courage its converts would need to break with the religion of their ancestors . |
| 17 | Last , but by no means least , much still needs to be done to improve public attitudes and understanding , both to aid prevention of mental disorder , and to help the mentally handicapped overcome their disabilities and find a tolerable place in society . |
| 18 | We can not be complacent , and a lot of hard canvassing needs to be done to regain lost passengers . |
| 19 | Like did er er people begin to be asked to do different jobs whereas you described in the older days , you were very much sort of , pinned to one machine if you like ? |
| 20 | Counselling on a one-to-one basis can sometimes be a difficult process , not least because there is no more depressing aspect of old age than to be asked to contemplate personal problems in isolation . |
| 21 | Now Ynys Mn Borough Council , already involved in deep negotiations with several parties to restore the hall for both community and commercial use , is to be asked to prepare detailed costings for the scheme . |
| 22 | However , as Reuter pointed out , it is possible to derive rights and to be bound to perform certain obligations without becoming a party to the treaty , an example being the United Nations with respect to its Charter . |
| 23 | Subsection ( 1 ) enables injunctions to be granted to restrain apprehended contraventions but enables also remedial steps to be ordered . |
| 24 | In some climates , outdoor workers have to be trained to take protective measures against exposure to long periods of sunlight leading to dehydration because of perspiration loss ; or to heat stroke ; or after long exposure , to an increasing rise in the incidence of skin cancer ( Nichols , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | More fundamentally , even if we could invent a new investigative body , it too would have to be trained to produce reliable results , and for it too we would have to invent some sort of internal verification mechanism . |
| 26 | For example , this allows individual modules to be defined to follow different lifecycles and thus behave in different ways . |
| 27 | Plenty of new technology had to be devised to implement relational databases . |
| 28 | The whole process has to be reconsidered to identify possible errors . |
| 29 | Was young Donald sound enough to be sent to contact other families ? |
| 30 | Occasionally the traffic had to be stopped to prevent modern vehicles spoiling the period setting . |