Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [be] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |
| 2 | This project carries out a study of the electorate , designed to be a continuation of the uninterrupted series of academic studies started by Butler and Stokes in the 1960s , taken up by Sarlvik and Crewe throughout the 1970s , and by the present investigators in 1983 . |
| 3 | The site was designed to be a mirror-image of Ford 's main US plant . |
| 4 | It was designed to be a communication between experts , discussing technical issues within their own subject field and hence was not intended for ’ public consumption ’ . |
| 5 | To help another major city — chosen by competition — to hold an international trade fair designed to be a showcase of British innovation for the twenty-first century . |
| 6 | It is designed to be a place for SATELLITES , SHUTTLES , PLANETS and THE SHIP . |
| 7 | Designed to be a showpiece for the new series , the very ambitious script , even in its final form , called for every stage in Polo 's journey to Peking from the Himalayas to be represented with sumptuous interior sets , exterior sets done in the studio , animated map graphics , and a vast array of costumes , props and backdrops . |
| 8 | The Centre is designed to be a focus for social work research in Scotland . |
| 9 | I detest the architect Luís Fernández-Galiano , according to whom the mirror that is ‘ Guernica ’ , like a chameleon changing colour , will acquire the golden hue of its true commercial destiny in its seventh incarnation in the armour-plated chamber ‘ designed to be the flagship of socialist cultural policy ’ . |
| 10 | In terms of the ultimate political objective of integration , the Common Assembly was designed to be the repository of ultimate control . |
| 11 | Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 12 | Bullingdon Prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire is designed to be an answer to overcrowded cells and primitive conditions for Category B inmates , those serving sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 13 | There is also expected to be a wave of public support for health workers especially as hospitals like those in London face closure . |
| 14 | Also replaced in the ensuing Cabinet reshuffle was Petroleum Resources Minister Jibril Aminu , who was widely expected to be a candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 5 . |
| 15 | But the violet number is expected to be a hit with larger-than-life stars such as Madonna and Kylie Minogue who like to give their unmentionables an outing . |
| 16 | But , generally speaking , you 're expected to be a self-starter at college . |
| 17 | This was expected to be a clue to changes in stellar magnetic fields . |
| 18 | He had been the Land Minister President in 1971-82 in Schleswig-Holstein , where his resignation from the federal government was expected to be a factor in elections in early April . |
| 19 | Smith , the highest jumper in the world last year , was expected to be a certainty for gold at Crystal Palace . |
| 20 | Smith , the highest jumper in the world last year , was expected to be a certainty for gold at Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | That scepticism and memory were to be important when he became an archbishop and was expected to be a leader in the organization . |
| 22 | Exactly how the member states will share the burden of the cuts is expected to be a source of continued controversy over the next few months . |
| 23 | If there are expected to be a number of queries of the type ‘ How many lecturers are over 40 years of age ? ’ , the database administrator may well consider using date-of-birth as a key for inclusion in the index . |
| 24 | Consequently the first effect of an increase in the money supply is expected to be a decrease in interest rates . |
| 25 | NI benefits are expected to be a target for cost cutting but the review is expected to be very wide ranging . |
| 26 | They never get a day off , nobody thinks of letting them go off on a training course , they never get the chance to keep up and yet they are expected to be the fount of all knowledge . |
| 27 | They undertake to start regular commercial passenger and freight services on the Target Commencement Date ( expected to be the date of the Tunnel 's opening ) , and to provide a passenger journey time between London and Paris of between 2h 55m and 3h 5m within two years of that date . |
| 28 | The proposals , described as the most far-reaching for 50 years , were expected to be the subject of intense lobbying from the financial and banking sectors when they came before Congress for approval . |
| 29 | She had expected to be the centre of things in Gallanach , but the McHoans as a family had so many other things happening to them ; she had felt peripheral . |
| 30 | Immediately the livingstonii swum up and gently nibbled my fingers — the last thing I had expected to be the cause of the tingling . |