Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [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 constant should be adjusted to reflect fairly the nature of the actual work involved . |
| 3 | Any Macintosh can be designated to back up the network . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | Gordon MacGregor , of Inverness , said he did not believe the unit would be re-opened to carry out the function conference wanted . |
| 7 | Mr Hamilton will be approached to find out the format of this event . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At most , five people per thousand contract leprosy , so hundreds of thousands must be vaccinated to reduce significantly the number of cases . |
| 11 | Filters can be designed to extract either the background pattern or the pattern of local variation . |
| 12 | The computer can be programmed to display immediately the number of nuclei that are abnormally stained . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 23 | Lorentz wondered whether ‘ patrons might be made to understand why the movies are so banal and childish … if every motion picture theatre prefaced its films with the caption ‘ This picture has been censored by a minor politician or by his assistants ’ ’ . |
| 24 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 25 | He claimed that space-time had an inbuilt tendency to expand , and this could be made to balance exactly the attraction of all the matter in the universe , so that a static universe would result . |
| 26 | The success experienced by learners using word-processing enhances their self-confidence and very often motivates them to tackle the difficult task of handwriting ; it can be seen to extend both the volume and content of their written work . |
| 27 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 28 | Will the Minister go further and give assurances that , however desperate the European negotiators are to achieve a GATT agreement , nothing will be done to sell out the interests of British textiles and clothing ? |
| 29 | Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . |
| 30 | A great deal of work now needs to be done to work out the details of the new arrangements . |