Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This tale of parallel realities claims to be based on quantum theory , and is dressed up with suitable jargon . |
| 2 | For the first year after transfer full excess fares less any increase in office allowance will be paid by the company , costs to be based on season ticket rates where appropriate . |
| 3 | It used to be said in World War Two that careless talk cost lives . |
| 4 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 5 | Suppose he were to marry only to be faced with mutton broth ? |
| 6 | After everything had been checked Diana ordered the contents to be transferred to plastic dustbin liners . |
| 7 | Whether one tries to illustrate subsidiarity by an upturned pyramid or a spiked helmet is irrelevant : Sir Christopher 's definition makes it clear that , far from being a guarantee for decentralisation , ‘ subsidiarity ’ is a blank cheque for more and more power to be transferred to Community level , just as the principle 's enshrinement in the German constitution has led to massive centralisation of power and expenditure in that country . |
| 8 | Later this month ( June ) the test is to be extended to South East England . |
| 9 | Kaleida will initially be housed at Apple 's headquarters , but there are plans for it to be relocated to Silicon Valley later in the year . |
| 10 | Gutter sealant may need to be applied to metal guttering , and plastic guttering may need the replacement of perished foam gaskets |
| 11 | So much yeast is produced during fermentation that large amounts are sold to companies such as Marmite to be turned into yeast extract . |
| 12 | Vanessa Weaver is the fourth person this year to be killed during horse eventing . |
| 13 | But times , morals and attitudes had changed radically since 1922 ( the Indianapolis Star also got the year wrong ) when Wally Reid , the ‘ King of Paramount ’ , was placed in a sanatorium to be treated for drug abuse . |
| 14 | The income which in fact is the income of B is to be treated for income tax purposes as the income of A. The purpose is notionally to transfer B's income to A , so that A may be charged to tax on the aggregate of his own and B's income . |
| 15 | One hundred and one patients were randomised into two groups : patients to be treated by heater probe ( n=50 ) . |
| 16 | What is surprising is the extent to which it seems continually to be ignored by business information providers . ) |
| 17 | According to European manager Rick Mellinger , ImageFlow is n't tightly-coupled to an application : instead , the client-server-based software links up to any application via an Application Programming Interface , enabling workflow processing to be separated from application processing . |
| 18 | But if the two ca n't agree over planning permission , the peace of wildlife here is unlikely to be disturbed by development work in the near future . |
| 19 | This was not the most logical of arguments , it would seem , if only because the Hudson recommendations were concerned with craft courses , while TEC and BEC , the latter of which in any case was only likely to be peripherally involved , were supposed to be operating at technician level . |
| 20 | Facets tend to be cut by sand abrasion at right angles to the wind , the facets being curved as on this microscale wind abrasion increases upwards . |
| 21 | The package was to be incorporated within a supplementary budget due to be presented for Diet approval prior to the beginning of the new fiscal year on April 1 . |
| 22 | If the firm is approved as a listed money market institution by the Bank of England under the exemption in s 43 of the FSA , it will be exempted from the need to be authorised for money market activities to which s 43 and Sched 5 apply . |
| 23 | In addition , even if it does not have a UK office , a non-UK firm nonetheless needs to be authorised for investment business carried on from a non-UK office with customers or counterparties in the UK on a services basis unless the FSA 's overseas person exemption applies ; this indeed also applies to UK firms ( see page 43 below ) . |
| 24 | It could , for example , refuse to hand a child back to a drunk parent but the child 's continued detention against parental wishes would have to be authorised by court order as soon as possible . |
| 25 | That January in 1941 the plans were entirely personal , however , because Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had difficulty persuading the Force Commanders that there was anything to be gained from beach reconnaissance . |
| 26 | Not much is to be gained by unison doubling except in passages where the G string is in use . |
| 27 | Several sessions were to be led by hospital nursing and other professional staff who had done little or no formal teaching before but who showed an interest in the project . |
| 28 | They wanted them to be recognised as concert orchestra instruments , and disapproved highly of their Tri-Plates occasionally getting into the hands of rough-and-ready blues musicians . |
| 29 | STAFF at Liverpool 's Victims of Violence charity home are to be balloted over strike action in support of a sacked colleague . |
| 30 | Historically , one of the earliest frequency-locking phenomena to be studied in laser physics was the locking of three or more longitudinal modes . |