Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester has strong support , including that of Prime Minister John Major , but Sydney , Australia , remains favourite to be given the 2000 Games . |
| 2 | Manchester has strong support , including that of Prime Minister John Major , but Sydney , Australia , remains favourite to be given the 2000 Games . |
| 3 | He must be in his early forties , Belinda decided , while Faye , she knew was thirty-eight — fairly old to be having a first child , which added a greater sense of urgency and importance to the task of keeping her pregnancy on track . |
| 4 | Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 5 | Judge Peter Greenwood told Hilton : ‘ The supplying of drugs is a very serious offence and you are fortunate to be getting a short sentence . ’ |
| 6 | Darlington Arts Centre THIS concert looks set to be come an annual event in Darlington 's musical calendar . |
| 7 | When Captain Pugwash retires from active piracy he is amazed and delighted to be offered a Huge Reward for what seems to be a simple task . |
| 8 | Even to the jaundiced eyes of veteran Washington reporters , this is mighty early to be planning a presidential campaign . |
| 9 | If , therefore , prisoners are in future to be told the judicial recommendation as to the tariff period , many judges may think it appropriate to announce their own recommendations publicly in court when passing sentence . |
| 10 | ‘ I only wear British clothes and I 'm extremely glad to be advertising a British car on TV , the Vauxhall Astra , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 11 | When one gets right down to it , I doubt very much whether you 're fit to be called a bad lot . ’ |
| 12 | XIa ) shows any significant similarity to the western designs ( chequered decoration — a feature common to mosaics of both regions — is insufficiently diagnostic to be considered a major index of affinity ) . |
| 13 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 14 | Well you 're supposed to be wearing the black one Jack |
| 15 | And tomorrow she was supposed to be visiting the Monpazier bastide with him . |
| 16 | I was supposed to be investigating the latest camcorder craze to sweep America — amateur home porn — but found myself dreading the thought of viewing the tapes . |
| 17 | Supposed to be going the right way . |
| 18 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 19 | You 'd do we by the time you get in nine o'clock you 're supposed to be re half past nine you 're supposed to be finished the first one . |
| 20 | We 're supposed to be having a good time today ! ’ |
| 21 | We 're supposed to be boosting the Old Man 's morale . |
| 22 | I am supposed to be covering a charitable fund-raising event at the City Temple . ’ |
| 23 | I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft . |
| 24 | He was lucky to be spared a long fuddled decline into the garbage heap . |
| 25 | The meeting was privileged to be given an historical perspective , as well as a view of biological applications of the latest techniques , by George Porter . |
| 26 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 27 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 28 | There is no English authority on the meaning of this expression ; however , most commentators agree that it is likely to be given a wide interpretation by the courts , and this is borne out by the Scottish case of McCrone v Boots Farm Supplies Ltd 1981 SLT 103 . |
| 29 | Atwater , who was thought likely to be given a ceremonial party post , was widely considered to be one of the key architects of Bush 's 1988 presidential election victory , but was suffering from an inoperable brain tumour . |
| 30 | Thus , if convicted , women are far less likely to be given a custodial sentence . |