Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress alone can be more harmful than cigarette smoking and has been proven to operate indirectly against the fetus because of the woman 's behaviour under stress . |
| 2 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 3 | The alternative to some form of conversion system is to purchase a printer which has been modified to operate directly with the Spectrum , just as Sinclair 's own ZX Printer does . |
| 4 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 5 | Many of East Germany 's energy-efficient industries are expected to shut down in the aftermath of the country 's reunification . |
| 6 | In theatres all over the world performers are expected to turn up at the ‘ half ’ to start making up . |
| 7 | Conditions are expected to settle down by the middle of next week . |
| 8 | Although it 's not yet certain exactly where the British armoured forces will be deployed , the four landing ships are expected to join up with the twelve-strong Royal Navy patrol in the Gulf of Amman . |
| 9 | BNFL will seek to identify new projects for the site but the numbers of BNFL employees at Capenhurst are expected to fall significantly by the mid to late 1990s . |
| 10 | M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year . |
| 11 | They are expected to report back to the software house and tell the programming team about any bugs they find , any inconsistencies , and so forth . |
| 12 | Furthermore , such modes of discussion are expected to conform also to the rules of professional literacy discourse . |
| 13 | The new machines are expected to come in above the ES/9000s and to dispense with water cooling , while being configurable with up to 100 processors working in parallel . |
| 14 | Consumers in Scotland , where the heating season is the longest in the UK , are expected to suffer most from the change . |
| 15 | In the case of real assets , the expected return may be less certain ( i.e. riskier ) but potentially greater as , for example , if property values are expected to soar ahead of the rate of inflation . |
| 16 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |
| 17 | Although the major national markets covered by the report are expected to change little during the years up to 1996 , the impact of the Swiss healthcare industries will be seen and Switzerland will become a leading market , forecast to be worth $116m by 1996 . |
| 18 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 19 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 20 | Sajudis ( the " Popular Front for Perestroika " ) had been expected to win decisively in the elections to the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet . |
| 21 | The £300,000 bridge has been designed to tone in with the area 's historic buildings . |
| 22 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 23 | At the beginning of book in , when describing the revolt of Lesbos in 427 , Thucydides says that the Lesbians ‘ had been wanting to revolt even before the war , but the Spartans had been unwilling to receive them into alliance ’ . |
| 24 | But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , attempts have been made to get as near the truth as possible as the brief account given here indicates . |
| 26 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 27 | And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete . |
| 28 | The venue has been selected to tie in with the trio 's preparations for the Hi-Tec British Open the following week . |
| 29 | The Immigration and Customs people at Ramsgate had been instructed to watch out for the Renault 18 but to keep a low profile and let it through . |
| 30 | Artemis asked , as she stood admiring her fifteenth birthday present , a stunning looking dark brown thoroughbred gelding which Jenkins had been instructed to lead up outside the house as a surprise . |