Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | It is n't as pretty as we are given to understand in fairy tales . ’ |
| 3 | Each item of such a carefully considered scheme will have been intended to stand in a specific position in Kent 's rooms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment , I am struggling to take in what it all means to me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is important , if you are to continue to live in the same house . ’ |
| 7 | Most men are taught to seek in their working lives the sense of purpose , of meaning and of self-respect that women seek in personal relationships . |
| 8 | This unique course , which Telford College has been validated to offer in 1989–90 , allows the student to study in depth and apply a range of problem-solving procedures to the design and communication of information through print and audio-visual media . |
| 9 | He writes : ‘ If we are pressed to see in the doctrine of the Trinity some clue to the sense that gender … must have something corresponding to it in the God-head , one would find in the unconditioned Unity of God something like the feminine in creation , while the differentiated Persons , on the other hand , have each a masculine denomination . ’ |
| 10 | It is 157 metres long , 92 metres across at its widest , the façade is 68 metres wide , the top of the golden Madonna 's statue ( Il Madonnina ) is 108 metres high , and the whole cathedral has been calculated to weigh in excess of 325,000 tons . |
| 11 | A probabilistic syntax processor has been developed to assist in the selection of the correct words for a text recognition system . |
| 12 | You may then find yourself faced with a real battle if your dog has not been taught to co-operate in this fashion . |
| 13 | " If people had been taught to believe in God then this or that calamity would not have happened . " |
| 14 | A number of dolphins have been taught to communicate in rudimentary English . |
| 15 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 16 | Many babies are lulled to sleep in cars , but if yours is wakeful and miserable , tapes of music or songs can be useful . |
| 17 | In practice , this may mean that old people are exposed to risk in their own homes and that there will be , on occasion , tragic consequences . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd been remanded to appear in court for a driving offence , ’ Fairham said . |
| 19 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 20 | To the extent that job cost records are intended to assist in the calculation of real profit margins these rates , excluding profits , are normally used . |
| 21 | All local plans are intended to develop in detail the broad structure plan policies and indicate how they are to be applied on the ground . |
| 22 | The comments that follow are intended to help in learning to identify and reject unusable answers . |
| 23 | The brief guides to subject areas taught in the Faculty of Arts that follow are intended to help in coming to a decision . |
| 24 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 25 | The theory states that individuals possess certain characteristics so that they are predisposed to act in a certain way within a given situation . |
| 26 | An understanding of how we are designed to move in this world is essential if we are to correct our detrimental habits , the source of much pain and discomfort . |
| 27 | A few are designed to take in aspects of all community specialties , including district nursing , community psychiatric nursing , community mental handicap nursing and health visiting . |
| 28 | As such , it can not be restricted to the description of linguistic forms independent of the purposes or functions which those forms are designed to serve in human affairs . |
| 29 | The subframes are designed to deform in the same manner as the robust bodyshell and thereby contribute to this energy absorption . |
| 30 | ‘ We looked with great interest at the issues raised in Professor Goode 's Consultation Document and our recommendations are designed to help in the task of securing a satisfactory basis for pension provision in the future ’ . |