Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reporter explained , ‘ NHS staff throughout the south of the city have been recalled to deal with the emergency . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 3 | In a three-variable table with one response variable and two explanatory variables , the proportions are calculated to sum to 1 within each of the cells formed by the categories of the explanatory variables . |
| 4 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 5 | Since inversion of the writing hand has been hypothesised to correlate with reduced lateralisation of brain functions it would be expected that there is a relation between inversion and familial sinistrality which also appears to relate , albeit inconsistently , to reduced perceptual asymmetries . |
| 6 | It is n't as pretty as we are given to understand in fairy tales . ’ |
| 7 | Black minorities have frequently been casualties of rules and procedures which may not have been intended to discriminate against them but which , in effect , do so and there is considerable resistance when the hitherto taken-for-granted procedures are brought into question . |
| 8 | The contention being that , as regards companies , the statute can not have been intended to apply to them if they are non-resident , one asks immediately — why not ? |
| 9 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 10 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 11 | Mont St Michel is known to have been disputed between Brittany and Normandy at about this date , and Robert 's fleet may from the first have been intended to operate against it and the Bretons . |
| 12 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 13 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 14 | In goodwill tours of the Six Counties he has been heard to ask for alcohol-free lager and other exotic drinks . |
| 15 | Many tales have been recorded of descendants of Irish families who have died far across the seas , just as a banshee has been heard to wail outside their birthplace in Ireland . |
| 16 | ‘ I would mine uncle would let me have my life , though he takes my crown , ’ he had been heard to say on one occasion . |
| 17 | Some reports also hinted that the Libyan connection had been leaked to coincide with efforts to tie Iran and Syria into the emerging US-led anti-Iraq alliance in the Gulf crisis . |
| 18 | The misuse of inside information has not been limited to misuse within financial conglomerates , but has been the centre of debate long before Big Bang . |
| 19 | Halley and his successors at the Royal Greenwich Observatory would surely have been fascinated to learn of the unexpected uses to which astronomers of the late 20th century would put their solar observations . |
| 20 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 21 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 22 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 24 | ‘ At the moment , I am struggling to take in what it all means to me . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 26 | In order to ensure compatibility with qualifications obtained by more traditional means , centres may only offer , through APL the same qualifications that they are validated to offer by other means . |
| 27 | TWO police officers are to go to jail for their part in the massacre of guerrilla prisoners in a Lima prison in June , 1986 . |
| 28 | Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning . |
| 29 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 30 | ‘ It is important , if you are to continue to live in the same house . ’ |