Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishing the prices once the sales are completed also raises problems of commercial confidentiality because the companies involved may be concerned that the price they paid for a business should not be revealed to their competitors . |
| 2 | Children like to make models or collage pictures of their home , and the enjoyment of the activity should not be lost to our concern for form and detail . |
| 3 | The relevant question is therefore : is there any indication in the subject matter and statutory purpose of the provisions concerning administrative receivers generally , or in the Act of 1986 considered as a whole , from which it appears that Parliament intended that the word ‘ company ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) of that Act should not be confined to its prima facie meaning of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , but should also embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ? |
| 4 | The survey also revealed that people do not trust the advertising industry to regulate itself : 56% think it should not be left to its own devices and 66% believe that the Government should monitor advertising . |
| 5 | These orthographic conventions should be taught in the context of the children 's own writing and should always be related to their function of making the writer 's meaning clear to the reader . |
| 6 | All the cases should be used with care and should always be related to their unique facts . |
| 7 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 8 | Like me , you know the Abbe Gerard was murdered , and you are looking for that book , a gift from our royal master which , by rights , should now be returned to its proper owner . ’ |
| 9 | These jokes should never be told to your friends at Hallowe'en , on a dark and stormy night gathered round a roaring log effect electric heater , or at any other time for that matter . |
| 10 | The first was to incorporate the Gaza Strip into Israel , including its refugee population who might possibly be returned to their original villages . |
| 11 | If successful the group will have a fleet of four vehicles specially designed to take disabled people around town , people who might otherwise be confined to their homes . |
| 12 | In other words , although the Formalists took a very important step in making language central to their definition of literature , their theoretical shortcomings could largely be attributed to their failure to extend a theory of language to other spheres . |
| 13 | It may have been an exhibition of the Tennant family wealth but it could not be added to their list of credits . |
| 14 | The official version of John Main 's transformation from watchman to tidesman was that this was a great favour to Main and would be a temporary appointment until he could again be reappointed to his duties as watchman at Inverkeithing . |
| 15 | If the account is well run , you should not need to see the management supervisor often , but , to be serious , a valuable contribution may well be made to your business through his or her wider experience — a senior agency account director has usually acquired a very passable working knowledge of more different businesses than most middle managers ( at least ) in the agency 's client companies . |
| 16 | The woman was never offensive in Stephen 's presence , but Tamar knew that should she retaliate , as she was often tempted to , her conduct would immediately be reported to her husband . |
| 17 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 18 | These scholars continue to review recordings in a highly influential way and every professional early-music ensemble knows that its work will eventually be referred to their public judgement . |
| 19 | Their line is that the CPP is in a state of shock and will eventually be reconciled to its new position . |
| 20 | It is , perhaps , a tribute to the privatisation structure that the market is proving to be very volatile , and industrial customers will not be tied to their suppliers unless they so wish . |
| 21 | Latecomers will not be admitted to their seats until a suitable interval . |
| 22 | Unix System Laboratories Inc says it is now in the final round of clearing bugs from its Destiny Unix operating system , which will shortly be released to its Univel Inc joint venture with Novell Inc . |
| 23 | Finally after the judging , the dog will often be returned to its bench . |
| 24 | The £60,000 was finally invested in September 1992 and the income will now be sent to my mother as it arises . |
| 25 | Today , the electronic typewriter with its daisy-wheel printer , and the personal computer with its ink jet dot-matrix printer , have probably put an end to developments in handwriting , although many people are now studying and practising the art of good penmanship , and the term a ‘ fine Italian hand ’ may yet be restored to its original meaning . |
| 26 | In the unlikely event that matters can not be resolved to your satisfaction in the resort , the Representative will ask you to record details of any problems on a Holiday Report Form , of which you will be given a copy , and you must then follow up your report by writing to the Customer Relations Department at our Birmingham Head Office ( quoting the numbers of your Holiday Reference and Holiday Report forms ) within 42 days of returning from resort . |
| 27 | If the matter can not be resolved to your satisfaction by the branch staff , you should ask to see the branch manager . |
| 28 | If the matter can not be resolved to your satisfaction by the branch staff , please contact the Manager . |
| 29 | The report defines seriously degraded soils as those which either can not be restored to their former productivity , or can be restored only with major construction efforts , such as drainage projects or soil conservation terraces and banks , that are beyond the ability of individual farmers . |
| 30 | The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability . |