Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb mod] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nobody will complain if they get Austria or Scotland , and Spain would be preferred to Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | But nobody will complain if they get Austria or Scotland , and Spain would be preferred to Yugoslavia . |
| 3 | If talking Patois is best analysed as a social activity rather than a purely informational one , then the narratives by Susan and Stephen can be said to be exceptional in that they do not involve any other participants from the same speech community . |
| 4 | Gloria was taking good care that she and Matthew would be seen to advantage , making straight for the centre of the group . |
| 5 | Faced with the two conflicting bids the Department of Trade and Industry decided that the agreed merger between Imperial and UB should be referred to the Monopolies and Merger Commission ( MMC ) , as the combined company would hold over 40 per cent of the snack food market — this together with a similar share of the market held by Nabisco would create a duopolistic situation in the market . |
| 6 | Bangladesh , China , Costa Rica , Egypt , Iran , Kenya , Sri Lanka and Trinidad and Tobago will be helped to phase out ozone-depleting substances , and related technical assistance will be provided to Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Ecuador , Ghana , Jordan , Malaysia , Mexico , Nigeria , Philippines , Thailand , Turkey , Uruguay and Venezuela . |
| 7 | The particular forms adopted by Greenfield , Hildyard and Olson can be related to the social formations and institutions that generated them , in this case specific academic institutions , just as in oral societies statements about truth are expressed and validated in terms of such complex forms and institutions as witchcraft , religion , cosmology and ritual . |
| 8 | The work of Douglas and Isherwood may be related to that Durkheimian pre-structuralist tradition which sees objects as aiding in the creation of a cognitive order based upon social divisions . |
| 9 | And , as Greve points out , in five years the rail journey between Paris , Brussels and Cologne will be reduced to a mere two hours and thirty-five minutes . |
| 10 | While the Government have to admit that , after pursuit of the policy of privatisation for 12 years , substantial problems have arisen that must be corrected , the best that they can propose is that Ofwat , Ofgas and Oftel should be raised to the standard of OFFER , the Office of Electricity Regulation , as if OFFER were the champion of the consumer against the might of near-monopoly power . |
| 11 | Richard Fry , managing director of Pettrac , said schemes at Inverness and Glasgow would be linked to the Scottish Pet Register , a computer operated from the Glasgow Dog and Cat Home . |
| 12 | However , apparently as a result , UI 's 1988 charter will be rewritten to recognize the change in USL ownership and Novell will be asked to formally reaffirm the principles and specifics of architecture and vendor neutrality it contains . |
| 13 | By 1938 98,280 eleven-year-olds in England and Wales could be admitted to secondary schools . |
| 14 | ‘ A lot of records held on microfilm in Newcastle , Durham and Northallerton could be brought to the town and housed in one place , ’ he said . |