Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 2 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 3 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 4 | Flocks need to be hung on a good wall surface . |
| 5 | With the exception of relief papers and thick fabrics like hessian or grasscloth , most of these special wallcoverings need to be hung on a smooth and level surface for a satisfactory result . |
| 6 | Local inhabitants recall that thistles used to be placed down the outside school toilets before the unsuspecting used them ! |
| 7 | Following the retirement of Frank Whitehead ( 1982 ) and the early retirement of Alan England ( 1984 ) neither of the posts left vacant has still been filled ; they are unlikely to be filled in the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | If problems do not have to be referred up a scalar chain of command to senior managers for a decision , decision-making will be quicker . |
| 9 | The principal question , whether the serfs were to be emancipated at all , had been answered , for after the circulation of the Nazimov Rescript to provincial governors and its publication in the journal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no doubt that the relationship between landowners and privately owned peasants was going to be put on a new footing . |
| 10 | Instead , they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota . |
| 11 | Then , feeling perhaps that things needed to be put on a proper footing , ‘ Veronica Totteridge . |
| 12 | If you wish to get married in a church which is not in either parish , you will have to apply to be put on the electoral roll or take up residence in the parish for the period over which the banns will be read . |
| 13 | The following information needs to be put on the front page : ( 1 ) The agreement date and the name and address of the seller and the buyer . |
| 14 | The job of choosing the endangered species to be put on the waiting list belongs to the Captive Breeding Specialist Group , set up by the World Conservation Union — IUCN . |
| 15 | I have been told to fill in a new form to be put on the waiting list but you need a permanent address to fill out one and I have n't got one . ’ |
| 16 | Over the next few years the book saw suggestions for all manner of things — for packet tobaccos to be sold at shop prices , for a device to be put on the smoking room door to stop persistent slamming and a complaint that the bushes on the 5th made the hole a flukey . |
| 17 | Earlier , on Feb. 6 , the union leader Ajami had said in London that " pressure will have to be put on the Kuwaiti royal family to honour " decisions taken at Jeddah in 1990 [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 18 | Lowe stripped to swim , and getting on the trunk of an uprooted tree , hoped to be carried down the eddying flood to some part where he could obtain assistance . |
| 19 | The clauses under which Edward renounced his claim to the French throne and John renounced sovereignty over Aquitaine were excised from the treaty and embodied in a separate document which laid down that the renunciations were to be carried out no later than 1 November 1361 , and were to be conditional upon the transfers of territory agreed in the treaty being implemented by June 1361 . |
| 20 | Executions continue to be carried out an alarming rate in China , USA , Russia , Iraq , Iran and Nigeria . |
| 21 | This group , under the chairmanship of Dr Toni Eden , has been drafting standards for every service that is likely to be piped down a British cable system . |
| 22 | Precautions had to be taken on a daily basis : draughts were mortal ; the liver constantly under threat . |
| 23 | Action to deal with offenders was to be taken on a voluntary rather than a court basis where possible . |
| 24 | In the unpublished ‘ Epilogue ’ to that work , we learn that Shadowfax will be saved too , to be taken on the last ship from the Havens to Aman , simply because Gandalf could not bear the parting . |
| 25 | Clearly the point had arrived in September 1947 where fundamental decisions had to be taken on the American commitment to Korea . |
| 26 | Some of these , along with others to be taken on the lighter mornings will be sent to the Highways Department and to the Edinburgh Evening News with an accompanying letter . |
| 27 | If you have n't got one of these to hand , perhaps we could arrange for one to be taken over the next few months . |
| 28 | Possible claims for compensation could not be faced by most councils , and in any case , there still had to be worked out a coherent land use strategy for the development of the urban fringe . |
| 29 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 30 | He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell . |