Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the spreadsheet will act like a financial calculator and tell you all about your savings plan there is something to be said for actually seeing your money grow . |
| 2 | It was not proposed that the two phases necessarily identified with the fibrils to be observed in highly drawn polymers although such identification is clearly possible . |
| 3 | These enable racist statements to be formulated without ever bringing into awareness the racist predicates on which the statements are grounded . |
| 4 | There is no prestige to be gained from simply repeating someone else 's experiment ; you are very unlikely to get a grant to do it , and the main scientific journals are not normally interested in publishing ‘ replications ’ of experiments unless they are on a particularly controversial topic . |
| 5 | This suggests to us that there 's probably no advantage to be gained from further tinkering with the law . |
| 6 | Increasingly , I was baffled by what was going on , and kept silent , only to be rebuked for not trying or for adopting a disdainful attitude . |
| 7 | It does not follow that the teacher has to be engaged in actually moving the frontier . |
| 8 | There are several spine-like papillae at the apex of the jaw , distal to these papillae the jaw appears to be covered by irregularly spaced oral papillae which are smaller and more rounded than those at the apex . |
| 9 | Very large peels may have to be mounted between specially cut pieces of thin window glass . |
| 10 | Most of the original marshland flora and fauna disappeared , to be replaced by newly planted trees and hedges . |
| 11 | Decisions have to be made on how to arrange the interface between manufacturing and sales , and in the area of delegating responsibility for international operations . |
| 12 | Apart from the anxiety caused by such uncertainty and the distress concerned , difficult decisions might have to be made about how to proceed . |
| 13 | I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them . |
| 14 | It was the moment when a choice had to be made about how to approach the exploitation and inequitable treatment meted out to Black subjects in Britain . |
| 15 | The group operates a number of contributory and non-contributory schemes , mainly of the defined benefit type , which require contributions to be made to separately administered funds . |
| 16 | Often compromise is not possible : a choice has to be made between diametrically opposed policies . |
| 17 | But a number of qualifications need to be made before fully accepting such an analysis . |
| 18 | I happened to be looking for somewhere to mount a small African sculpture I had bought and came upon De Biasi in Tottenham Mews just off Tottenham Court Toad . |
| 19 | So that e E Os need to be looking at how to help with interview |
| 20 | If the sign were a wooden stick , care would have to be exercised in not hurting or being hurt — the mechanism of the make-believe being blurred by the intrusion of the present objective reality . |
| 21 | In the case of South Africa , this kind of self-esteem has to be sought in deliberately resisting the implications of what is taught rather than accepting them . |
| 22 | Further studies need to be done to precisely identify them . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Mrs Hollidaye revealed to Dot how many things were to be done without even having to move from bed . |
| 24 | It 's got to be done by actually tackling the people who are going to be violent by preventing them being violent . |
| 25 | A headmaster who resigned from a private girls ' school is waiting to see if he 's to be prosecuted for allegedly importing child pornography . |
| 26 | In other words , having debited principal and interest for loans raised to operating statements , rates had to be collected at least to cover those repayments ( S. 2 , General Rate Act 1967 ) . |
| 27 | Ranges in ‘ pure ’ cash and carry 's tend to be limited to fast moving items so specialist products may not be stocked . |
| 28 | The brush-strokes have become smaller and more numerous , and perspective is distorted to such an extent that the buildings occasionally appear to be composed of completely dislocated or dissociated walls and roofs . |
| 29 | It appears to be composed of centrifugally deposited lamellar tissue , superficially like vertebrate enamel . |
| 30 | This has to be achieved without adversely affecting design quality , a task that can prove quite challenging . |