Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New records are expected to be set at next year 's Olympics , where speed skiers will possibly exceed 150mph . |
| 2 | The report is intended as a complement to the International Convention on Biodiversity , which is expected to be signed at UNCED . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The process of making base metal into gold was akin to the maturing of a human being , and the texts were deliberately written to be read at various levels . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 7 | They are made to be drunk at one sitting . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm the answer would be no , they 've got to be sold at sometime and nobody knows what the market is going to do . |
| 10 | Interestingly however , the data presented here suggest that activation of HPV gene expression may not be dependent on decreased expression of Oct-1 , which in any case is known to be expressed at enhanced levels in rapidly proliferating transformed cells ( 28 , 29 ) . |
| 11 | Real growth in GDP was projected to be maintained at 2-3 per cent during 1989-90 , although many observers regarded such a figure as optimistic . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The group has also continued to be represented at some of the major group exhibitions in Berlin . |
| 15 | Factories may be required to be sited at some distance from residential areas in specially designated industrial zones . |