Example sentences of "to be [verb] [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Though we must be careful not to attempt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves , it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends .
2 It has to be said that many parents themselves share this view .
3 That may , in some respects , be healthy but it also has to be said that those reticences marked a division between private and public spheres which may have made compromise possible .
4 However , it has to be said that local authorities on the whole frown on totting and many ban it outright so caution is advised .
5 It has also to be recognized that all owners may need to make alterations and improvements to their property from time to time .
6 You may be lucky enough to be watching when young aphids are born .
7 Staff shortages , combined with the patients ' helplessness and their invisibility from the general public ( few visitors come to these wards ) , make it easy for private toileting or modesty to be ignored and emotional lives denied .
8 The Southern Africa mailing list will continue to be serviced and new names can be added to it , but there will be no active promotion of it .
9 Well after the , the aircraft had actually er left the airport to go , be handed back to the RAF they said sometimes had to be serviced or final adjustments made and that 's what they used to go out there for but erm Helliwells was ver it was still , all through the war it was Helliwells aircraft they used to have their own lorries and everything and they used to erm , be under the auspices of the Air Ministry but it was very much a private company .
10 Non-randomised comparisons of epidural analgesia with no analgesia or other forms of pain relief are likely to be biased since those women experiencing long , difficult labours are more likely to request epidural analgesia .
11 Reserve requirements on banks will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage .
12 The Sultan of Jogjakarta annually gives the royal substances of his hair and fingernail cuttings to be deposited as placatory offerings in the crater of the great Merapi volcano .
13 It has to be recognised that syllabic consonants are a problem — they are phonologically different from their non-syllabic counterparts .
14 Nevertheless , it has to be recognised that several interests may feel threatened by an advertising ban .
15 A number of samples in excess of the calculated number must be put on storage to enable tests to be repeated when unexpected results are obtained .
16 Black juveniles are more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white juveniles .
17 You , you 've got to be using that same towels , you know , that sort of thing .
18 This mode of study was too time-consuming to be suited to the part-time student and it had to be assumed that these benefits would be provided by the employer and the real-life work situation .
19 At other times it is relatively hidden , smoothed over by extensive cultivation , familiarity and the techniques of what Bourdieu calls ‘ legitimation ’ , only to be revealed when constituent elements are wrenched away and placed in a new setting .
20 The functioning of the polytechnics , as their schemes began to be accepted and formal designations made , was to become of increasing interest to the CNAA , and the issues surrounding relationships were to become increasingly prominent , with regard to such matters as the roles of Academic Boards , resource allocation and internal evaluation .
21 It is to be hoped that recent changes within the SDA ( notably its drift towards self-help , business-orientated projects ) will not allow it to lose sight of wider goals in Scotland , where extensive areas of economic decline and outright poverty can still be identified .
22 It is to be hoped that future titles will move on from here and handle some of the visionary , imaginative and fantastic possibilities of fiction also .
23 But this is the penalty all pioneers must suffer , for we all operate within the narrow confines of the knowledge and attitudes of our day , and before condemning us entirely , it is to be hoped that future students will appreciate that their own work would be that much more difficult , but for the solid foundations so meticulously laid down by John Pearson Gillam .
24 Some failures are due to ischaemia , sepsis , and fistulas in the arly period after operation and it is to be hoped that these complications will become less with further experience .
25 It is to be hoped that later publications in this new series will be fuller , with more detailed commentary .
26 It is to be hoped that most members of the Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders are aware of this fact .
27 One might say that the ‘ candid camera ’ technique used for some television programmes , where people have tricks played on them for the benefit of the viewers , is rather in this mode of observation , though it is to be hoped that social researchers would not encourage people to make fools of themselves in the way television producers do .
28 JOBS have become the battleground of the recession , with demands growing for existing ones to be saved and new ones created .
29 Left-inclined critics of pluralism reject the utility of the public/private distinction as ideological ; they reject the idea of a self-contained autonomous politics distinct from the economy and economic power ; and they argue that decisions made by businessmen in " private " enterprise have a massive public aspect that needs to be explored because those decisions involve the exercise of very real power .
30 Resolving the question as to what are to be perceived as such costs and benefits is itself a hard task .
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