Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 200 walks organised by The Ramblers ' Association to be held all over England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And even if this does not enable the desired result to be obtained convincingly , there are further possible ploys which are readily available . |
| 10 | In the latter case , it is extremely rare for a potential voter who is in possession of a polling card to be turned away . |
| 11 | Just how black is n't fully apparent until about half-way through , when you discover that the glum little son ( a brilliant performance by a child , Bryan Madorsky ) of the happy couple ( Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt ) has a great deal to be disturbed about . |
| 12 | ‘ There is still a great deal to be done both inside the company and within the industry in order to ensure that we secure the right outcome to the 1994 review [ of nuclear power ] . |
| 13 | The experiment to be described here is a replication of part of the series of experiments reported in Craik and Tulving ( 1975 ) . |
| 14 | The best insurance against this happening is for time-off to be planned well in advance so that staff and the ward manager can make the adjustments necessary to ensure that patient needs are met . |
| 15 | Even without this icing on the cake , I suspect that the set would be the ideal ‘ book ’ for a physicist to be cast away with on a desert island , provided paper and pencils were also supplied . |
| 16 | Glastonbury is the unmissable event , the grooviest vibe of the music year , but Reading is the heaviest bill , the most densely packed agglomeration of rawk bands and fans to be found anywhere . |
| 17 | It was more than 2 hours before accident investigators allowed the digger to be lifted out , so the body could be removed . |
| 18 | This still enables reasonably compact bar codes to be used , but keeps the reading process easy enough for inexpensive sensors to be used successfully . |
| 19 | It was not unknown for foreigners to be brought up in this way , and trained for responsible posts in the army , priesthood or civil service . |
| 20 | And I think we 're in the rounds now thinking we 've got the chance of going up , but it 's not going to be easy and there 's lots of football to be played yet . |
| 21 | The guillotine motion after 10 o'clock tonight will attempt to preclude sensible contributions , attempt to preclude people from dealing with the difficulties and technicalities in the Bill , and pose a real problem for those of us who believe that local government is not a political football to be kicked about at whim , but an essential part of our democracy for the provision of essential services . |
| 22 | It encouraged the tendency for uncoordinated initiatives to be taken at different levels of the diplomatic hierarchy and contradictory signals to be sent out to foreign powers . |
| 23 | No more than 10 per cent of total investment to be tied up in any one company . |
| 24 | Although both the BCP and the UDF were in agreement in principle over the election of a head of state , the UDF wanted the President to be elected by the future Grand National Assembly , whereas the BCP wanted the President to be elected directly , at the same time as the forthcoming parliamentary elections . |
| 25 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 26 | My own view is that for readers to be promised even a glimmer of understanding as to the origins of our world and the universe was tempting enough , but the further promise that it was to be told briefly was irresistible . |
| 27 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 28 | Stone , particularly of the Caen neighbourhood , enabled the techniques of masonry to be understood early . |
| 29 | The investigation itself requires the test sessions to be repeated as often as possible , say on 5 occasions at each test time , to reduce the effects of variability . |
| 30 | As well as X400 , X25 , Async and Bisync , it is now also offering Odette File Transfer Protocol , enabling dropped sessions to be picked up in the middle of transmission . |