Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be items on the agenda relating to individual members of staff or children that are confidential and visitors to the governors ' meeting should naturally be asked to withdraw during discussion of these , but most items can be dealt with in open session . |
| 2 | The paint exchange scheme will shortly be expanded to take in paint waste from the trade sector in the city . |
| 3 | Eating quail 's eggs , he frowned as he reread the letter from Lloyd 's : it warned him of the amount that he would shortly be expected to produce in settlement . |
| 4 | ‘ Principally , ’ I continued , ‘ it has been felt that Father should no longer be asked to wait at table , whether or not guests are present . ’ |
| 5 | With the creation of a formidable nuclear force , the Soviet homeland can no longer be held to ransom against Socialism 's expansion ; as the West 's capacity for direct intervention is blunted by ‘ the growing might of the Socialist camp ’ , the ideological struggle is not only safer , but free to intensify . |
| 6 | If Stagecoach has sold it , why should the contemptible consumers of bus services not just be left to suffer from market forces imposed on them by the Government through privatisation ? |
| 7 | A variety of techniques will be used to chart their general beliefs about child development , as well as their specific estimates of what children of given ages might normally be expected to achieve in history . |
| 8 | Chemically , they differ considerably from morphine , but they can usually be seen to correspond to part of the morphine molecule , and are thus envisaged as acting on the same receptors . |
| 9 | The hypotheses considered in the preceding section of this chapter ( that pre-exposure allows the formation of a stimulus — no event association , and so on ) still remain viable provided it is allowed that the associations they envisage can still be assumed to interfere with retrieval . |
| 10 | But they could still be summoned to appear in court to answer the allegations of their creditor , to admit or give good reasons for disclaiming them — if the sum involved was less than £5,000 in a county court , if more in the High Court . |
| 11 | He acknowledged that in some cases it could be hundreds of pounds extra but argued that people would still be allowed to go to law . |
| 12 | Here we report that human mutant cell lines that lack mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) , and therefore do not have a functional respiratory chain , can still be induced to die by apoptosis , and that they can be protected from apoptosis by the overexpression of bcl-2 , suggesting that neither apoptosis nor the protective effect of bcl-2 depends on mitochondrial respiration . |
| 13 | For instance , at the most basic level , the higher the profit margin the supplier receives for performing a contract , the greater the liability he can reasonably be asked to accept for failure to perform as promised . |
| 14 | If you can not reasonably be expected to vote in person on polling day you can apply for an absent vote . |
| 15 | It can also be tuned to trade off video quality against compression speed . |
| 16 | In purely administrative terms , it was thought that authorities concerned with distinguishing between applications for exempt development , excepted development , designated relevant development and non-designated relevant development could not also be expected to distinguish between Class A and Class B applications , and between outline , illustrative , detailed and guideline applications . |
| 17 | In pantomime or musical comedy they might also be required to appear in production numbers with the rest of the company but true chorus dancers were always kept in the background . |
| 18 | The issue system will issue and discharge books and items in the normal way but can also be used to search for information and to produce overdues . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the pilot study is to be expanded to areas outside the north east and it is hoped that it will eventually be used to help with funding applications , and provide statistical data for the press . |
| 20 | The utility that would have been obtained with certainty prior to the union setting its monopoly wage rate must now be modified to take into account the uncertainty that is introduced with the unemployment probability . |
| 21 | I hope that you may now be encouraged to experiment with weaving , and it may help you to use up those oddments of hand knitting yarn which you do n't have time to knit . |
| 22 | This is acceptable in the textbook , and can even be made to work on audio , but it is more difficult when we can see real people in a real setting on video . |
| 23 | In the long run , it might even be decided to dispense with paper operations altogether and work entirely electronically from the collection stage ( see 2.5 above ) onwards . |
| 24 | Who wanted to ask the question back then , or even be allowed to examine in depth its many possibilities ? |
| 25 | You will then be allowed to vote by post or proxy if your application reaches the registration officer before noon on the sixth day before polling day ( not counting the days mentioned above ) . |
| 26 | These estimated 's can then be used to estimate from equation ( 3.15 ) , that is : where over a variable or coefficient denotes our estimate of the variable or coefficient . |
| 27 | The client must then be persuaded to invest in change . |
| 28 | The noodles are very thin and simply require boiling water to be poured over them and should then be left to steep for 3–4min . |
| 29 | It has avoided the need to invest in time and paper systems , such as monthly reports which would otherwise be required to keep in touch with personnel developments . |
| 30 | Around Oz , The Little Red Schoolbook , Last Exit To Brooklyn , the ‘ experts ’ would again be summoned to testify for liberalism and freedom of expression , but the cases would become inextricably blurred with others , about drugs , and , by 1972 , about political challenges to the state . |