Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special cards are expected to be phased out once the long-anticipated economic reforms begin . |
| 2 | If the subject is one which is likely to be covered fairly regularly the expense of such an operation will be recouped . |
| 3 | However , it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis , or chemical warfare between species , has been exploited , and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents . |
| 4 | It remains to be seen how far the structural changes will result in a ‘ cultural ’ change within the NHS . |
| 5 | There has been a familiar aura of UNESCO optimism about the plans of the project and it remains to be seen how far the recommendations of its Report on the Reform of Primary Education issued in 1977 will be accepted by the Government . |
| 6 | If the decorating has to be done again then the shop should pay . |
| 7 | If the job is to be done well then the drafting and negotiating of the sale agreement should involve the least time in the entire exercise . |
| 8 | The correspondence principle states that we should expect wages to be rising more rapidly the larger is X i . |
| 9 | However , the above calculations have not provided for ( a ) increases to pensions in payment , as will be required when the ‘ limited price indexation ( LPI ) ’ provisions of the Social Security Act 1990 are enacted ; ( b ) male and female pension rights to be equalised retrospectively once the Barber and GRE judgment of 1990 has been clarified . |
| 10 | The full deal on the EC 's future budget are likely to be unveiled today when the 12 EC heads of state rubber stamp the final package . |
| 11 | This seems to be pushing the linguistic analogy too far , and to be taking too literally the structuralist tenet that literature is ‘ the essential manifestation ’ of language , and that ‘ the writer does nothing more than read language ’ ( p.84 ) . |
| 12 | On the first mission , tracking stations have to be knocked out so the human convoy can pass undetected . |
| 13 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 14 | However , if the counsellor seeks to support the position of the older person , care has to be taken over how the imbalance of power is handled . |
| 15 | I tie my string muzzles to those ferrets that are to be worked loose down the burrows and whose main function is to bolt the rabbits from underground . |
| 16 | Do consider how the new conservatory will best blend with the property and whether to use single glazing which is less expensive or double glazing which allows the conservatory to be used more comfortably the year around . |
| 17 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |