Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 2 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 3 | The Conservative Election victory in 1970 had removed , for the time being at least , the prospect of the School 's being compelled to join the Independent sector , and allowed thought to be given at some length as to what Independence might entail . |
| 4 | They were very young , and totally dependent on the Durbeyfield couple : six helpless creatures who had not asked to be born at all , much less to be part of the irresponsible Durbeyfield family . |
| 5 | Because it is the convention that second reading is concerned only with general principle of the bill , textual amendments are not allowed to be proposed at this stage . |
| 6 | The group has also continued to be represented at some of the major group exhibitions in Berlin . |
| 7 | Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones . |