Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
| 2 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 3 | I understand this has been given some serious consideration , but it has been decided not to proceed at present . |
| 4 | A Design Change state indicating that it has been decided not to proceed with work on the Design Change . |
| 5 | I truly believe that each of us had held on in there not only for ourselves , but also for the women we are destined never to meet in person , but with whom we share our motivation to create a world where our creativity is valued . |
| 6 | Multipage and multiple spreadsheets have been made easier to use in version 5.5 by the inclusion of icons that let you move forwards and backwards between pages and spreadsheets — these are the double arrows in the third section down in the Tool Bar . |
| 7 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
| 8 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |
| 9 | Several of them — constipation , confusion , urinary incontinence and difficulty seeing and hearing — have been shown elsewhere to increase with age ( Cartwright , 1990a ) . |
| 10 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
| 11 | A campaign group that 's been set up to lobby on behalf of the thousands of people who are thought to have lost their pensions says there 's lttle hope of Alan 's ever being refunded … |
| 12 | As a vine will generally withstand a temperature as low as -5°C water-spraying systems are set up to come into operation as soon as the temperature drops to 1°C . |
| 13 | Each will be revised regularly to check on progress , and raise standards higher . |
| 14 | The Commission strongly affirms the value of silent as well as vocal participation , and it believes that worshippers need to be taught how to listen to music no less attentively than they do to the reading of Scripture , or to preaching , or to the recitation of prayers . |
| 15 | Yet conventional categories can be modified also to allow for change in concepts and attitudes . |
| 16 | When the use of the term ‘ reading readiness ’ in education is examined , it will be seen not to refer to readiness to read , nor even to readiness to learn to read , but to quite a different state of affairs , namely readiness to cope with reading instruction . |
| 17 | Work left on unattended open display needs to be visited regularly to check on wear and tear or even sabotage by children loyal to another school ! |
| 18 | In practice , the word seems to be used mostly to refer to animal sonar . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going up to change for dinner . |
| 20 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |
| 21 | The project was to be a three-year one and was to employ one action project development officer in each of the two locations ( employed by Age Concern at its Research Unit ) and three researchers ( two employed by Age Concern at its Research Unit , and one , a research psychiatrist , employed by Guy 's Medical School ) ; in addition , the funding ( which amounted in total to approximately £250,000 ) was to cover the wages of local people to be employed specifically to work with dementia sufferers . |
| 22 | Under other legislation , less formal committees may be set up to enquire into trade disputes , and in the 1960s Lord Devlin produced three reports on the port industry and Lord Cameron reported on a dispute concerning bank employees . |
| 23 | I I 'm trying not to think about way I feel on Christmas morning cos |
| 24 | There are some common pieces of advice that people swap when they are asked how to deal with stress . |
| 25 | Rappers Kid ‘ N ’ Play and Full Force are lined up to star in House Party 2 . |
| 26 | Like Jean Rhys 's fictional Englishmen , these real ones were taught early to rely on reason and suppress their feelings , and this opposition made the struggle of their lives . |
| 27 | My encounters with girls were destined always to end in rejection until I 'd left my teens behind me . |
| 28 | The Northumbrians were instructed not to establish as king anyone who was illegitimate ( a slighting reference perhaps to Aldfrith and his descendants , or , for all that we know to the contrary , to other rulers — Aethelwald or Alhred ) nor to conspire to kill a king who was the Lord 's anointed , and any bishop or priest who was involved in such a crime was to be expelled from the Church and any layman excommunicated . |
| 29 | Villagers are being shown how to lobby for change by learning how to write press releases , organise protests and run clean-up campaigns . |
| 30 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |