Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marsh grasses , like the tall , coarse Spartina genus , are broken down by bacteria to form detritus , food for shellfish . |
| 2 | The items between the top of the partition and the gap formed by the moving of the instance are shuffled down in order to remove the gap . |
| 3 | Observations and experiments are carried out in order to test or shed light on some theory , and only those observations considered relevant to that task should be recorded . |
| 4 | Thus you discover what tasks are to be performed and how they are carried out in order to create a picture of what the person will actually do in the job . |
| 5 | Moreover , readers by now will not be surprised to learn that political considerations ( rather than goods-specific externalities ) have been picked out in order to explain the selection of other forms of subsidies than cash transfers ( Browning 1975 ) . |
| 6 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 7 | Roadside checks have been carried out to try to discover the identity of a baby found dead in a ditch . |
| 8 | So far only a preliminary amount of work has been carried out in order to assess the restoration work required . |
| 9 | Since 1980 , computer tomography of the thorax and upper abdomen and ultrasouns examination of the neck have been carried out in order to identify abnormal lymph nodes , which are then subjected to cytological examination . |
| 10 | New cities are pushing up like mushrooms to replace the old . |
| 11 | Leeds and Cleckheaton had been cordoned off by troops to stop the crowds from getting in . |
| 12 | I 'm driving up to Pollensa tomorrow to pick her up and then we 're flying off to Madrid to meet her parents … |
| 13 | At David Hockney 's opening at the Kasmin gallery in 1968 , Steven Buckley announced loudly : ‘ You 're running out of Knights to sleep with , Derek ’ . |
| 14 | And if you 're running out of time to make a stuffing for the turkey or goose , try one of Epicure 's stuffing mixes — Sage & Onion , Sage & Chestnut , Herb & Garlic or Apricot & Almond . |
| 15 | Erm we 're coming in on Sunday to see Norma so I might pop in pop in on Sunday afternoon . |
| 16 | Extra officers have been drafted in from headquarters to carry out house to house inquiries . |
| 17 | Remarkable results have been achieved with children from mainstream and special schools when the teaching of mathematics has been opened up in order to allow pupils to find their own strategies and solutions to problems . |
| 18 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 19 | Each of these Compacts has been offered up to £50,000 to set up a Compact structure . |
| 20 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 21 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 22 | We are going over to Trame to see what effect this is having . ’ |
| 23 | Teachers are going back to university to learn how to teach the National Curriculum . |
| 24 | WRITING ON THE WALL : Teachers are going back to basics to encourage pupils to learn English |
| 25 | Only headmistress Rosalind McCarthy , a teacher and the school 's caretaker are staying on with police to guard the former stately home . |
| 26 | Thousands of people are flying out of Britain to celebrate the New Year in the sun and snow . |
| 27 | RELATIVES are flying in from Japan to celebrate the golden wedding of a Newton Aycliffe couple known to hundreds of club members in the area . |
| 28 | The country 's elite have already been sounded out by Taylor to scrap appearance money , as well as the win and draw bonuses that have existed since Don Revie 's era . |
| 29 | Because of the sensitive nature of the police inquiries , a direct line has been set up for women to contact Gloucestershire detectives , based in Bristol . |
| 30 | A joint US-Russian commission had been set up in March to research the prisoner of war issue . |