Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Preamble and Article 1 of Regulation 2052/88 should be amended to include a reference to Article 130 R of the Treaty . |
| 2 | The conference also suggested that the standard requisitions on title be amended to include a reference to whether a seller 's solicitor was also acting for the lender in the redemption of the mortgage . |
| 3 | The lories , a branch of the parrot family , have acquired a tongue with little papillae on its surface that can be erected to form a brush with which to sweep up nectar . |
| 4 | Once preparations are obtained they can be treated to serve a number of purposes and some of these will be described . |
| 5 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 6 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 7 | Comfortable sofas and armchairs should be grouped to allow a semblance of privacy for each couple or party . |
| 8 | It was claimed that the population of these desert ascetics was equal to that of the Nile towns , but religious fervour can hardly be trusted to have a head for figures . |
| 9 | The editorial contents will be designed to provide a back-up to course work and a bridge between the college experience and the realities of working on site . |
| 10 | The price reduction initially requested may be substantial and may be designed to provoke a reaction from the vendors to test their minimum price and their negotiating strength at this late stage ( i.e. whether they are irrevocably committed to the deal ) . |
| 11 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 12 | Lab-Plant has introduced a computer-controlled , electronic stirrer which can be programmed to perform a series of functions automatically and for long periods . |
| 13 | They are also useful in — flexible manufacturing systems ’ — robots that can be programmed to do a variety of jobs . |
| 14 | For example , the hearer may be expected to access a range of contextual assumptions about the effort of running up hills . |
| 15 | The group also included Treasury ministers , who might be expected to support a change to private insurance if anyone would . |
| 16 | Britain can be expected to use a series of meetings to resist such proposals . |
| 17 | Nor do I see why caregivers should be expected to sustain a focus on personal relationships which would not ordinarily exist in the encounters between young people and adults . |
| 18 | France are the only member of the Five Nations to accept an invitation , although it can be expected to see a number of England 's high-order in the Barbarians side and Irish charm amongst the Irish Wolfhounds . |
| 19 | Customers or consumers can be expected to judge a product by their own taste or good sense . |
| 20 | The successful candidate will be expected to lead a team of two to three graduates engaged in the determination of pesticide and agrochemical residues in crops and soils . |
| 21 | These findings are particularly interesting in view of the fact that reading is a verbal process and might therefore be expected to yield a superiority for the right hand . |
| 22 | Whether or not you can reasonably be expected to take a job of a different kind or at a lower rate of pay will depend upon the circumstances . |
| 23 | A recent scrutiny of public sector job advertisements reveals such phrases as : ‘ You will be expected to take a lead on all aspects of work in the Division . ’ |
| 24 | It was a relief not to have to soothe and propitiate an experienced detective who could hardly be expected to welcome a commander from the new C1 squad intruding on his patch . |
| 25 | ‘ Could not be expected to make a success of anything , ’ his teacher once said of him . |
| 26 | I was her oafish idiot of a son who could n't be expected to make a success of anything — not even of his marriage . ’ |
| 27 | A hyponym , being more specific in sense than its superordinates , might be expected as a result to be more fastidious in respect of its lexical companions ; and thus the normal contexts of a hyponym might reasonably be expected to constitute a sub-set of the normal contexts of a superordinate . |
| 28 | Vauxhall can be expected to start a flurry of limited-edition Astras in the lead-up to the new model 's launch in September . |
| 29 | Experience in computing , preferably in maintenance and trouble-shooting , is essential , and the successful candidate will be expected to develop a commitment to delivering an efficient service to the users . |
| 30 | Both were sister papers of established dailies , the Telegraph and Mail , which could be expected to provide a core of readers and whose presses had spare capacity . |