Example sentences of "to be [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 2 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 3 | Those are likely to be extended the following year to include time waits between GP referral and an appointment with a consultant . |
| 4 | His objective seemed to be to save the Radical party 's electoral chances by matching promise for promise the prospectus of the rival Justicialist party . |
| 5 | And we can see the rates for which the deduction is going to be applied the other side . |
| 6 | A group of ragged children and some idle women were watching him with amusement rather than disapproval , half applauding him with their cruel laughter , and although one woman boldly cried , ‘ Shame , ’ most seemed to be enjoying the unequal struggle . |
| 7 | There were a few startled shrieks , but for the most part the patrons seemed to be enjoying the sudden element of adventure that had been added to their evening . |
| 8 | Sales of mainframe systems are still thought to be earning the biggest profit . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady seems to be confusing the regulatory record of my Department with the regulators outside my Department , who were deliberately set up as independent regulators as a result of legislation passed by the House . |
| 10 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 11 | President Abulfez Elchibey , elected in June [ see p. 38976 ] , was said to be reorganizing the Azerbaijani army . |
| 12 | However , the meeting , representing 33 different organizations , voted to establish a body " without rigid structures " rather than a party , to be called the Democratic Choice Bloc . |
| 13 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 14 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 15 | I do n't want to be called the 501 guy by any means , but it was fun . |
| 16 | ( 1 ) There shall be established a body to be called the Scottish Bus Passengers ' Consultative Committee . |
| 17 | New clause 5 proposes the establishment of a body , to be called the Scottish bus passengers ' consultative committee , to monitor the effects of the legislation on passengers and to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State . |
| 18 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 19 | The Sun used to be called the Daily Herald . |
| 20 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 21 | The price of 36s. has thus some claim to be called the true equilibrium price : because if it were fixed on at the beginning , and adhered to throughout , it would exactly equate demand and supply ( i.e. the amount which buyers were willing to purchase at that price would be just equal to that for which sellers were willing to take that price ) ; and because every dealer who has a perfect knowledge of the circumstances of the market expects that price to be established . |
| 22 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 23 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
| 24 | Vitamin A used to be called the anti-infective vitamin because a deficiency reduces the resistance of certain parts of the body to infection . |
| 25 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 26 | Despite Herbert 's claim to be using the plain saying of direct felt expression and humility towards addressing the divine , he is also demonstrating his poetic standing . |
| 27 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 28 | Last month more than a thousand women in Birmingham were recalled after a nurse was said to be using the wrong type of spatula . |
| 29 | As we have already said , the practice seems to be to use the Optional Procedure for relatively simple cases , the only known refusal of an Optional Procedure action being an attempt to pursue a claim for asbestosis thereunder . |
| 30 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |