Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
2 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
3 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
4 | The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand . |
5 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
6 | Thus , it is quite possible in Northern Ireland for an ethnic Catholic to be a non-believer , or conversely for an ( English ) outsider who is an adherent of the Catholic religion to be categorized as non-Catholic . |
7 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
8 | God is in no sense an idealised self-image to be possessed and manipulated . |
9 | The further development of current techniques for measuring protein synthesis , in vivo , will be required to allow the contribution of each cell type to the rate of protein synthesis in the whole biopsy to be determined . |
10 | There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med . |
11 | At Chilgrove 1 , the coin series ends with Magnentius , and Alec Down , the excavator , suggests an amalgamation with Chilgrove 2 which could represent the kind of reorganization to be expected . |
12 | And even if she had decided to use a delivery service , there would normally be a full check-list to be ticked off before parting with any money . |
13 | The system also allows membership records of former students who have joined the Oxford Polytechnic Association to be maintained . |
14 | In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context . |
15 | 200 walks organised by The Ramblers ' Association to be held all over England , Scotland and Wales . |
16 | So the end of the Cold War is also the ‘ end of history ’ — no more stories to be told , no more thinking to be done , no more fundamental conflicts to be resolved . |
17 | If we acknowledge the importance of respecting the child 's own ways of thinking , we need to find ways for that thinking to be expressed so that it can be reflected on , and to know how far doing this can also help learning . |
18 | These could actually be used as two separate windings driving separate supply circuits , but it would be very unusual for a transformer to be used in this way . |
19 | It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo . |
20 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
21 | Because of cultural , family or personality factors many people may suppress their grief , but allowing grief to be expressed often reduces its intensity or duration . |
22 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
23 | Since this was the first coronation to be televised to a nation , Ramsey was suddenly famous among the people of England ; all the more so because the vast head , baldness girt by flowing white locks , mobile expressive eyebrows , and waddling gait drew the attention of millions of viewers . |
24 | The riding families were broken up : many , like the Grahams , were transported to the Low Countries and Ireland , leaving their lands and stock to be appropriated by grateful Marcher lords . |
25 | A consistent basis for valuation is to be employed worldwide whereby all unrealised intercompany profit will be eliminated on consolidation and provision for slow-moving or obsolete stock to be made on the following basis ; |
26 | In social terms opencasting causes people to move , housing stock to be destroyed and an unacceptable reduction on the quality of life during the period of site working and early restoration work . |
27 | For many lifetimes railway practice had been for locomotives and rolling stock to be downgraded or ‘ cascaded ’ from front line to secondary services . |
28 | Valley markets are visited in the spring to buy stock to be fattened on lush summer pastures ( ‘ alps ’ — which give the range its name ) , and sold in autumn . |
29 | However , a simple router table , allowing stock to be passed over a static cutter , is a fairly essential next step after purchasing a router . |
30 | If you are cutting from a severed stem , take it with you to the stock to be budded , or if you are taking a number of buds , get the stem into a deep can of water at once and use it as soon as possible . |