Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower , but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said . |
| 3 | For he was going to be burdened always with the conviction that it could have been avoided . |
| 4 | Instead , a full selection procedure was to be gone through during the lifetime of a Parliament , thus allowing other aspiring candidates to be considered . |
| 5 | ‘ This area is to be gone over with a fine tooth-comb . |
| 6 | The Community Charge was to be based not on the household , but on the individual . |
| 7 | His argument seemed to be based fearlessly on the refusal to recognise what is already public knowledge about our plans . |
| 8 | There are many factors which indicate that rehabilitation should become a community-based process into which the hospital facilities can feed , but which ought to be based closer to the patient 's home . |
| 9 | Study of the distribution of the British population has to be based largely on the census , an amazingly rich and flexible source of data but capable of providing us with only occasional , if regular , views of what is happening . |
| 10 | These comments do not seem to be based primarily on the notion of standardization as a process ( J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) that might have been beginning to have an effect about this time : they present the standard language as a coherent entity — a variety , like any other variety . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the absence of a reliable test , the diagnosis of candidiasis has to be based solely on the symptoms reported . |
| 13 | There is however much more to be said here about the development of Parker the musician . |
| 14 | There were signs , especially in 1988 , that the players appeared to be trying harder in the one-day internationals than in the Tests , and the traditionalists — who of course regard themselves as the real cricket lovers — feared for the future . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media . |
| 18 | The method depended on pouring molten gold with a melting-point lower than that of the pieces to be joined together into the interstices between them : on cooling the separate parts would be found to have bonded together . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | Although this technique was originally introduced to investigate the relevance of linear stability theory , it has proved a useful way of controlling flow development and ensuring that the same features are to be observed repeatedly at the same place . |
| 21 | Responsibilities to be transferred exclusively to the provinces included mining , forestry , tourism , urban affairs , housing and recreation , although the agreement also committed the government to make concessions in the areas of culture , immigration , telecommunications , labour training and regional development . |
| 22 | There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest . |
| 23 | If colleges of nursing can not supply these , then nurse education ought to be transferred away from the colleges and onto polytechnics and universities . |
| 24 | As the operator takes readings they are recorded automatically on the attached ‘ datalogger ’ , to be transferred later to a personal computer ( courtesy Cath Price ) . |
| 25 | The system had to be extended considerably beyond the 1950 plans at both 132kV and 275kV in order to meet the greatly increased demands of the late 1950s . |
| 26 | In view of the growth of the tutorial class movement and of adult education generally , which carries with it an increasing demand for courses in English literature , the influence and responsibilities of English departments at Universities , especially in the provinces , are likely to be extended considerably in the near future . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 29 | Villages and timber plants are to be relocated away from the pandas ' habitat … |
| 30 | 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 . |