Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This area is to be gone over with a fine tooth-comb . |
| 2 | The first was the introduction of the Apple Macintosh which was the first personal computer to be based entirely on a graphical interface as opposed to the more conventional character-at-a-time systems . |
| 3 | You fitted more snugly into society , especially , the tight little society around the Consul-General , if you were married and could take your wife along to dinner-parties with you , instead of forever having to be fixed up with a stray aunt or somebody . |
| 4 | Chloramphenicol was the first antibiotic to be prepared synthetically on a large scale , and no difference has been recognized between the therapeutic properties of material made by microbes and by man . |
| 5 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 6 | As the operator takes readings they are recorded automatically on the attached ‘ datalogger ’ , to be transferred later to a personal computer ( courtesy Cath Price ) . |
| 7 | The golf course proposal to be carved out of a 113 acre site at Canonteign was originally rejected by the Park Authority as being inappropriate and detrimental to the landscape . |
| 8 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 9 | You need to be cooped up with a Jermiah like a hole in the head ! |
| 10 | They took no notice of me ; they were creatures of the night , the air and the ocean , and I was only a piece of the land , meaningless , to be flown round like a boulder or a stump of wood . |
| 11 | ‘ Recommend that he 's taken ashore at the next port of call and arrange for him to be flown home to an orthopaedic unit . |
| 12 | We were told that there would be a General 's inspection and the searchlight had to be turned on at a specified time , but when the great moment came we could not start the engine that drove the dynamo and darkness still prevailed . |
| 13 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 14 | Owner Richard Burridge ( above ) reports his tough grey almost back to his old self and the horse may be well enough to be turned out in a paddock today . |
| 15 | Michael hightails it out of town , 10,000 dollars better off , only to be turned back after a road accident . |
| 16 | To cure condensation , the mould has to be killed off with a bleach solution , and then warmth and ventilation increased . |
| 17 | The person to whom the income is payable under the disposition and the person who has made the disposition are to be treated notionally as a single taxpayer . |
| 18 | A publicly funded , public service organization such as the BBC would need to be treated differently from a privately owned quality paper or a Trust-owned Guardian . |
| 19 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 20 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
| 21 | One consequence of augmenting the focus registers as in SPAR is that it becomes more common for candidates to be separated only by a weak focusing preference . |
| 22 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 23 | Of the longer term organizational trends that have developed within the travel industry , diversification needs to be broken down into a range of separate forms . |
| 24 | The visit may need to be broken down into a series of short and varied experiences . |
| 25 | However , the practice is condemned in a recent announcement made by the Vatican on Respect for Human Life in its Origins and on the Dignity of Procreation , which permits a child to be conceived only as a result of intercourse within marriage . |
| 26 | The cases are due to be heard together before a judge in London without a jury , in January . |
| 27 | Lindsey used Bravo Golf from the time of its purchase in 1967 until 1973 as the family transport , that was until he had a visit from the Airshow Coordinator at RAF Finningley in 1973 who asked him if he would like to be shot down by a Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain airshow that year ! |
| 28 | Researchers are often reluctant to provide this weight of sample , especially when it has to be cut away from a valuable fragment of , say , bone or wood . |
| 29 | On the other hand , can you see if coordination gets er deteriorates in any way you 're going to be cut off from an awful lot of things you now , you might have been marvellous at embroidery , it gave you a lot of satisfaction but if your co coordination starts to go then the quality of what you can do will satisfy you , will dissatisfy you , make you feel annoyed . |
| 30 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |