Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 2 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 3 | A raffle organised by the Triangle Community Association of Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , raised more than £2,256 to be split between the TCA and South Cleveland Hospital 's appeal for a lithotripter machine to break up kidney stones . |
| 4 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 5 | VTAM , the Virtual Telecommunications Access Method , is the first application to be split from the network , and with the new 3.4.2 release , it can now run natively over TCP/IP , and comes with support for OS/2-based machines too . |
| 6 | And tomorrow night we 'll be hearing reactions to the possibility of VAT being added to books and newspapers , another area thought likely to be targetted by the Chancellor . |
| 7 | The average ranking of the correct word is only three , and a number of words ( between 5 and 25 ) have to be hypothesized in the hope of including the correct word . |
| 8 | Why it 's cool to be gone with the wind . |
| 9 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 10 | In the event of the Publisher receiving from other parties payments for exploitation of the Work in any other form or manner then the Publisher shall pay the Author a portion to be based on the Publisher 's net receipts from such other parties . |
| 11 | Criteria for eligibility in criminal cases remains unchanged and will continue to be based on the test of undue hardship . |
| 12 | But a Royal Bank spokesman said : ‘ We would only expect tenders to be based on the cost per hour , not the total cost . |
| 13 | While the ‘ manufacturing critique ’ of DCF presented by Hill ( 1985 ) may be resisted as argued above , he is nevertheless correct in his fundamental message that assessment ( of the cash flows ) needs to be based on the degree to which order-winning criteria are enhanced . |
| 14 | With little in the way of landmarks , accurate navigation had to be based on the position of farm buildings , roads and the occasional flash flood riverbed . |
| 15 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 16 | The concept of structure also has its risks and its dangers , even though it appears to be based on the idea of relations as opposed to entities or determining origins ( as we saw above in the discussion of the Prague School ) . |
| 17 | The conditions for sustained growth outlined in the autumn statement appear to be based on the idea of a revival in consumer spending rather than an investment-led recovery . |
| 18 | Consequently in 1835 the Geological Survey of Great Britain was established by the government for the purpose of producing geological maps of the country to be based on the Ordnance Survey maps as they became available . |
| 19 | The point here , I think , is that if the latter is to be an ability , and not just a performance repertoire , then it has to be based on the internalization of systemic knowledge as a communicative resource . |
| 20 | ‘ I am extremely concerned this is to be based on the Government 's own estimate of how much each council should spend the Standard Spending Assessment . |
| 21 | As Gerald Thomas told me : ‘ Our success appeared to be based on the demise of the British music hall , the slightly lavatorial humour that appealed to father and son alike — and to the fact that people knew what they were getting , like Heinz baked beans or Lux toilet soap . ’ |
| 22 | Namibia 's armed forces were to be based on the integration of locally recruited units with former SWAPO guerrillas . |
| 23 | For them the extent of the new prosperity may be doubted , although their relationships with their masters had come to be based on the basis of cash rather than service . |
| 24 | Under clause 54(4) the taxable benefit is to be based on the arm 's length price of the benefit received . |
| 25 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 26 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 27 | Most of the figures that have been given for the projected growth of the presentation graphics market in this country , and Europe as a whole , seem to be based on the assumption that there will be a significant change towards the use of 35mm slides . |
| 28 | At the Haymarket he directed Alec Guinness as John Mortimer 's blind father in A Voyage Round My Father ; at the Royal Court his version of Charles Wood 's Veterans starred John Gielgud and John Mills as two film actors on location ( the play was said to be based on the filming of Tony Richardson 's Charge of the Light Brigade ) ; and at the New Theatre , Donald Sinden scored a brilliant success as an urban fop pursuing a country heiress in Eyre 's revival of Dion Boucicault 's London Assurance . |
| 29 | If the tax is intended to discourage landfill , ought it to be based on the volume of a product ? |
| 30 | Religion tends to be based on the need of people to believe in something more important than their own trivial lives . |