Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No greater incentive can be given to enter on a life of extravagant and riotous living which the sumptuary laws used to forbid , social conscience to deplore and socialist politicians to inveigh against . |
| 2 | For example , a dog can be taught to jump through a hoop , but there is no stimulus to which jumping through a hoop is the unconditioned response . |
| 3 | A local bureau may be approached to talk to a group of probation officers . |
| 4 | Mrs C. McBean will be approached to act as a pianist . |
| 5 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |
| 6 | While there are many calculations and constructions which will allow mechanisms to be designed to pass through a set number of control points , they carry no guarantees that the mechanisms will not have to pass through infinity between some of them . |
| 7 | The surface of the tablet can be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting the main functions . |
| 8 | The surface of the tablet can also be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting major functions or entering text . |
| 9 | In this way , there is no physical limit to the number of adjacent needles that can be programmed to tuck within a pattern . |
| 10 | Furthermore , there is not a strong tradition of non-formal education within the labour movement in the USA which might ideally be expected to serve as a training ground for working with Highlander . |
| 11 | Lady Merchiston 's situation , Theda recognised , was symptomatic of the whole , and she could appreciate that the Diggorys could scarcely be expected to cope with a task that would baffle an army of servants . |
| 12 | Those in working-class jobs and those with no jobs at all might be expected to opt for a party that offers some degree of social change and appears more empathic toward the " have-nots " than toward the " haves . " |
| 13 | Nursing care is individual to each patient , as the patient should not be expected to conform to a set pattern of treatment . |
| 14 | Moreover , a cash supplement to income would also be expected to lead to a fall in work effort . |
| 15 | A left hemisphere advantage for matching by name ( Cohen , 1972 ) would be expected to lead to a RVF superiority on a memory search for letter names . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the prison population could be substantially reduced without creating a massive crime wave : if the numbers in prison were cut by 40 per cent , this could be expected to lead to an increase in criminal convictions of only 1.6 per cent . |
| 17 | In practice , more than this minimum is likely to be required for entry to the majority of the courses offered by the University , in order to ensure that those admitted to degree courses possess a sufficiently broad educational background and that they may reasonably be expected to benefit from a university education . |
| 18 | As with the Faculty scholarships , overseas students will be expected to apply for an ORS award . |
| 19 | As a fixed term appointee you will be non-mobile and not normally be expected to transfer to a post outside reasonable daily travelling distance of your home . |
| 20 | Equally , the ‘ periphery ’ has an interest in policy making and can be expected to contribute to a feedback process from implementation into policy elaboration . |
| 21 | 15.1 This agreement is an executory agreement only and shall not operate or be deemed to operate as a demise of the Premises An executory agreement is an agreement to be followed by a lease , usually after various preliminary matters have been dealt with or some future act has been done , eg works have been completed . |
| 22 | If God intended that parents should not be permitted to come between a husband and a wife , then surely football pals or the darts team , the sports club , or any other activity should not be allowed to be an obstacle to this new relationship . |
| 23 | By applying judgements to the curriculum itself , evaluation by the users of that curriculum can be brought into the classroom , evaluation can be made to serve as a basis for new directions in the process of teaching and learning … it can shape and guide learning and guide decisions within the curriculum process . |
| 24 | Garbett decided that no one after himself ought to be made to live in a château like Bishopthorpe . |
| 25 | However , she could be made to leave with a month 's notice if another licensee agreed to take on a 20-year lease there . |
| 26 | With all this in mind , the point of the argument has been reached where an attempt can be made to move towards an integration of the behavioural and strategic perspectives of corporate resource allocation . |
| 27 | Later it was even specified that should there be for any reason no foreskin to sever , blood must still be made to flow for a rite to be effected and for the individual to enter the covenant . |
| 28 | At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape . |
| 29 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 30 | They must be licensed , but if necessary an arrangement may be made to operate as a subsidiary within the terms of a licence held by an Irish bank . |