Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [be] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 2 | The Gary Hutchinson Memorial Appeal is aiming to raise between £12,000 and £15,000 to pay for an image transmission system which will allow those pictures to be sent down a telephone line so specialists at another hospital can advise immediately whether a patient needs to be moved for surgery . |
| 3 | Is not that a long enough period for miners to be working down the pit ? |
| 4 | It meant a lot of hard work , dressings to be changed twice a day , support and stable bandages , plus massaging his legs to help circulation . |
| 5 | Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has developed new technology that could save lives : it 's called image link and it allows images from hospital scanners to be transmitted down the telephone line to a consultant at the Infirmary . |
| 6 | The 1976 Act allows charges of possession and handling of explosives to be brought in the Republic , but not charges of conspiracy to cause murder or explosions . |
| 7 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. announced that for reasons to be given later the court would order that W. be transferred to the proposed specialist unit and there receive treatment without her consent . |
| 8 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 9 | Cows to be milked twice a day , every day , water to be carried to all the cattle , fodder to drag to the high pastures , hay to be cut if the weather was benevolent , dry stone walls to be repaired after the ravages of winter , cows to be calved and ewes to be lambed ( usually in the middle of the night ) , horses to harness , drains to be dug … the list is endless . |
| 10 | However , the Takeover Code in the UK , for example , acts to enforce equal treatment of the shareholdings to be acquired once a critical small percentage of shares has been obtained . |
| 11 | They apply in cases of ( a ) inadvertence , ( b ) misadventure and ( c ) death , and empower licences to be granted to the parties in possession of the premises and objections to be considered whereby an objector himself or his representatives if he is deceased in such cases at an adjourned meeting . |