Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquiry into British energy should be undertaken to weigh up the arguments and to give the UK a national strategy for the years to 2012 and beyond . ’ |
| 2 | The case studies will be undertaken to establish how a bus company operates from the viewpoint of its management and organisation . |
| 3 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to extend exemption from prescription charges to , and to make further provision for , persons in receipt of certain categories of benefit ; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60 ; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges . |
| 4 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for certain descriptions of shops in England and Wales to be open for trade on Sunday , subject to their being registered with the local authority ; to impose a general prohibition on the opening on Sunday of other shops , extending this prohibition to certain business premises which on week-days are open for the service of customers ; to provide protection for persons employed in or for the purposes of a shop which is , or is to be , registered for Sunday opening , where they have conscientious or other objections to working on Sunday ; to make consequential and other repeals in the Shops Act 1950 ; and for connected purposes . |
| 5 | The motion was : ’ That leave be given to bring in a Bill to end distinctions between the various types of educational institutions that cater for people over 18 years of age , and to provide for a genuinely comprehensive system of higher education under democratic control . ’ |
| 6 | The constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved . |
| 7 | Any Macintosh can be designated to back up the network . |
| 8 | This option requires the name of the package , the name of the LIFESPAN user to be designated to carry out the approval , and the date by which the approval decision is required . |
| 9 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 10 | At every level of church life , international , inter-denominational , intercongregational and intracongregational structures must be developed to express both the unity and the diversity of the Body of Christ ( 1 Cor. |
| 11 | Gordon MacGregor , of Inverness , said he did not believe the unit would be re-opened to carry out the function conference wanted . |
| 12 | Such people obviously can not be approached to fill in a questionnaire ! |
| 13 | Mr Hamilton will be approached to find out the format of this event . |
| 14 | If laboratory scale experiments indicate , however , that the indigenous microfauna are unable to degrade the contaminants , enrichment cultures of microorganisms may be added to speed up the process . |
| 15 | In cooler areas where ripening is a problem — such as Germany or Burgundy in France — a little extra sugar may be added to bump up the alcohol . |
| 16 | At most , five people per thousand contract leprosy , so hundreds of thousands must be vaccinated to reduce significantly the number of cases . |
| 17 | Filters can be designed to extract either the background pattern or the pattern of local variation . |
| 18 | The computer can be programmed to display immediately the number of nuclei that are abnormally stained . |
| 19 | However , recent technological advances have made possible a robot which can be programmed to carry out a range of services on command . |
| 20 | In smaller seasonal or residential hotels all the office work could be centralised in the reception office , and during the quiet period on the front desk the receptionist would be expected to carry out the task of maintaining accounting and other records . |
| 21 | In practice , the state scheme contributions pre-empt a slice of incomes which would otherwise be available for saving through pension schemes , and thus to that extent would be expected to slow down the growth of non-state provision . |
| 22 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , for example , can hardly be expected to explain publicly the extent to which our joining the ERM has tied his hand . |
| 23 | With contracting , hospital doctors will be the agents of the provider , not the purchasing authority , and again can not be expected to take on the gatekeeper role . |
| 24 | There must be other places in the evening where Suzie might be expected to put in an appearance . |
| 25 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 26 | Relatives of people living in care homes can be expected to make up the difference between the amount of benefit and the charges actually levied by by the home . |
| 27 | The answer is that no-one can control or even forecast accurately the maximum flow of water that can be expected to surge down the Tay valley and through Perth . |
| 28 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 29 | The risk , however , is that come the day of dispute adequate proof of the business practices will be difficult if not impossible to assemble and that the default provisions of the Partnership Act ( see below ) will have to be applied to sort out the problem . |
| 30 | On the basis of these small but important findings , a case could be made to close down the whole of the provision in this sector . |