Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now you will rightly be wanting to know the source of these inevitable distortions that the government should take action to offset . |
| 2 | There may be items on the agenda relating to individual members of staff or children that are confidential and visitors to the governors ' meeting should naturally be asked to withdraw during discussion of these , but most items can be dealt with in open session . |
| 3 | Firstly the noun phrase " the six cabinet ministers ' is the most elaborated of all the references to the ministers , and would naturally be expected to precede subsequent , more reduced , forms . |
| 4 | Anyone else looking for commercial privileges would naturally be expected to provide an attractive loan , and in 1698 the new East India Company won the right to the monopoly of Indian trade with Britain by lending £2m. at 8 per cent . |
| 5 | Golden eagles , see above , would alone be advised to land elsewhere . |
| 6 | Although MAS will obviously be seeking to create an auction , it is normal to state that the vendors are not motivated purely by financial concerns but give great importance to other factors such as finding the right buyer , etc . |
| 7 | This can obviously be extended to allow a range of different sizes of operation code field , so that we can provide more operation codes for less secondary information ( such as operand fields ) in a fixed instruction length . |
| 8 | Parties must obviously be allowed to retain excess seats , so the membership of the Bundestag has to be increased . |
| 9 | It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) . |
| 10 | So be held to go to another branch |
| 11 | Also drawn in charcoal were two other features of religious importance : a group of five-pointed stars and a mystical two-line formula , each consisting of all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet — the ultimate anagram which , when rearranged , could quite literally be used to express all human knowledge and all experience . |
| 12 | As in the previous areas discussed , objects may not merely be used to refer to a given social group , but may themselves be constitutive of a certain social relation . |
| 13 | As the economy grew that happened , although the goal of stable real spending can only be said to have been achieved up to 1990 if the returns from privatisation are included to reduce the total — essentially a cheat . |
| 14 | Clearly , if the court orders the conveyance , or if the conveyance is by agreement to satisfy the claim of the wife , it will be inappropriate for the husband to convey " as settlor " since the conveyance is not a voluntary disposition or settlement ; for this to be an effective covenant the conveying party must not only be expressed to convey as " settlor " , he must actually be a settlor ( see Fay v Miller Wilkins & Co [ 1941 ] Ch 360 , although Emmet on Title ( 19th edn , Longman , para 14.003 ) expresses doubts concerning this decision ) . |
| 15 | Changes in the level of support in future years will only be made to take account of inflation or changes in the size and composition of the total population within each local authority area . |
| 16 | The Soviet people could only be made to make sacrifices if Stalin had the threat of capitalism . |
| 17 | We had previously only be warned to expect an overspend of one and a half million . |
| 18 | Of course , the staff at the Poly could only be flattered to take part in a state visit . |
| 19 | Moreover , the ‘ curved path ’ , ‘ whirling mass ’ , ‘ cosmic wheel ’ or spiralling vortex described by the ancients as the integrating pattern of cosmic universal energy , can only be seen to have the endorsement of modern research and understanding . |
| 20 | For them , all other things being equal , they will only be selected to make a sacrifice , where the benefit is twice the cost . |
| 21 | Obviously you will only be asked to come for an interview if you have made an initial approach for a job . |
| 22 | Sometimes , if elderly relatives are living at a distance , it is not possible to be certain , in spite of advice from us , and help from neighbours with the shopping , that they are eating properly , but if they can only be persuaded to drink a pint of milk every day and eat some fresh citrus fruit , wholemeal bread , cheese or eggs , margarine or butter and a bowl of bran cereal , we shall know that they can not come to any serious harm from a dietary point of view , even though a much more varied diet would be more suitable . |
| 23 | The shopper , so the refrain goes , does n't know how to cook fresh fish , ca n't cope with bones , wo n't pay a fair price and will only be persuaded to buy the traditional species . |
| 24 | Deprived of a swim , Henrietta decided to wash her hair but the bathroom tap could only be persuaded to emit a trickle of dark brown water , after which it coughed , spluttered and ran dry . |
| 25 | He could not imagine finding tranquillity of soul in old age ; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well , one might suddenly achieve equilibrium , certainty , serenity . |
| 26 | Local authorities will be given new powers over a second tier of less heavily polluting processes , which will only be allowed to take place after councils have imposed stringent operating conditions . |
| 27 | Under the NRA 's new restrictions , water companies will only be allowed to use disinfectants which are both effective against salmonella and viruses but harmless to plants and animals , and which do not accumulate in the bodies of marine organisms . |
| 28 | The six-axle lorries " six tonnes heavier than the current limit " will only be allowed to transfer freight to and from rail terminals . |
| 29 | Planning for the Community — new housing should only be allowed to meet local needs , and an assessment should be made of the effect of every proposed development on the community , its environment , language and cultural identity . |
| 30 | The money supply , measured by a broad definition , should only be allowed to increase at a stable and gradual rate , in line with the growth of the economy 's productive capacity . |