Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be [vb pp] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 2 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 3 | They may be driven to a frenzy by the pains , with a total loss of consideration for others ; they may be quarrelsome , disputative and uncivil . |
| 4 | They may be issued to a creditor in exchange for goods and services received , or in exchange for money . |
| 5 | Although the range of facilities and services may be smaller , they may be provided to a high standard . |
| 6 | However , arithmetic can not be done on these byte strings as they stand ; instead they must be converted to a different string data-type , known as packed decimal . |
| 7 | The banality of this latter type of entertainment is said to have once provoked Napoleon III to remark : ‘ Great God ; they talk about the debauchery of the Court ; they should be sentenced to an evening like this . ’ |
| 8 | At least once each year they should be invited to an event which permits them to keep abreast of both general and particular developments in their field of interest . |
| 9 | There was a nationalist fear that they might be confined to an internal Northern Ireland settlement , but this has been denied . |
| 10 | Landscapes were empty and without meaning unless they could be related to an inner view , to a feeling of emptiness or apprehension , a sadness , a surge of hope , an ecstasy . |
| 11 | They were not thought particularly interesting , until , in 1952 , Herring and Galt chanced to bend some tin whiskers and noticed that they could be bent to a strain of about 2 per cent and still recover elastically . |
| 12 | Some British students might actually do the course , though they would be kept to a small minority . |
| 13 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 14 | Such data management operations take up a lot of the computer 's operating time ; in a computer based on FRAMs they would be reduced to a minimum . |
| 15 | Delays may be inevitable but they will be kept to a minimum . |
| 16 | These accusations may be wholly untrue but they will be made to an extent not paralleled by criticism of any judgment he may make from the bench of the regular courts . |
| 17 | Words are used to inflect if they can be assigned to a number of grammatical classes , and the members of all these classes are distinguished from each other by their morphology ( internal shape ) and by their syntax ( the rules of their use ) . |
| 18 | For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state . |
| 19 | To a large extent the crops grown vary with altitude — they can be grown to a higher altitude on the warmer , less exposed south side . |
| 20 | The atoms can then be made to interact directly with the laser beam , as in the so-called collinear methods , or they can be converted to an atomic beam by heating in a small hot tantalum tube . |
| 21 | Thus , any shares offered for sale must first be offered to other shareholders before they can be transferred to a third party . |
| 22 | Ideally individual children should be able to move through the program at their own speed , and if a page is not understood they can be moved to a subroutine that explains and reinforces the point of difficulty , then tests their understanding before they return to the main program . |
| 23 | They are normally sheathed but when hunting they can be extended to a length of 2½ in ( 6 cm ) . |
| 24 | The argument is that funds should not be diverted to the government sector if they can be put to a more productive use in the private sector . |