Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , if the checks are adjusted to allow the hammers to pass freely on their way up , they will not be checked on their way down .
2 An Open Meeting has been arranged to enable the Council to bring governing bodies up to date on two important issues and to have joint discussion on them .
3 In addition , they should have been introduced to communication skills involving questioning , simulation and judgement and opportunities should have been given to prepare the pupils to cope with conflicting evidence in actual historical issues .
4 On May 29 the government announced that the Political Parties Law had been amended to allow the INEC to set a new limit for individual contributions .
5 There are exemptions from the proposed requirement in this connection , which are intended to obviate the need to provide details of ordinary shares , the characteristics of which are well understood .
6 A new bridge has just been completed to enable the railway to pass over the new Metrolink .
7 Some modellers are designed to allow the user to perform arbitrary rotational and transformation activities , for the purpose of satisfying various geometric constructions and the generation of auxiliary views .
8 More than a hundred thousand people are expected to visit the showground to see a variety of colourful , and often bizarre balloons .
9 There 's another high bore tommorrow — when big weekend crowds are expected to line the banks to watch the surfing spectacular .
10 Several hundred people from Northern Ireland are expected to cross the Atlantic to support the Republic 's team , who are virtually assured of qualifying for the final stages after their 2–0 defeat of Lithuania in Dublin on Wednesday .
11 Even the independent bookmakers , who might have been expected to welcome the opportunity to extend their hours , were largely against the reform .
12 Something has been done to help the historian to make sense of this abundance by publishing selections of material on certain important topics .
13 Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) .
14 The nuns from the Our Lady of Passion Monastery at Daventry are seeking to block an order to slaughter one of their flocks , which is allegedly infected with Salmonella typhimurium .
15 But one theory is that the Mujahideen are seeking to use the election to demonstrate that opposition to the mullahs is alive and strong .
16 The final direction of outcome may well be different from the intentions of the participants at the start of the meeting but time and care have been applied to help the participants to arrive at the most effective consensus .
17 As to the second point , there are numerous cases in which attempts have been made to induce the courts to review or ignore decisions of the visitor acting within his jurisdiction , all of which have been unsuccessful .
18 A fresh attempt has been made to persuade the Government to let a county council spend ten million pounds more than Whitehall wants .
19 By a series of Acts ranging from 1907 to 1960 exceptions had already been made permitting a man to marry his deceased or divorced wife 's sister or half-sister , his niece by marriage or his aunt by marriage ; and a woman may marry her deceased or divorced husband 's brother or half-brother .
20 The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of
21 Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside .
22 At death registration , registrars are instructed to make every effort to find out about the previous work experience of people , including those who might be unemployed or sick .
23 And we 're goin' to use the money to buy something else . ’
24 Now I hope you 're going to see a solicitor to make a will .
25 Our initial impressions of Utopia are very positive , so much so that we 're going to install the application to log all the Windows related problems , hints , tips and fixes encountered via this column .
26 ‘ Talk to her when we 've gone and tell her that we 're going to get a doctor to come .
27 Thorning continues : ‘ The big prize is that we 're going to help the company to get into wholesaling — a much bigger opportunity for both lubricants and parts than what could be sold through petrol stations alone .
28 to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done .
29 We 're told to get a tray to put our gear into .
30 ‘ We must be near , ’ I thought , ‘ they 're waiting to get the all-clear to enter a certain area , where , please God , we 'll stop . ’
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