Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they want to continue to be ruled by communists ? |
| 2 | Apart from anything else , we , we do n't just go to the theatre we have , we really tend to wait to be invited |
| 3 | At present even those authorities who support the concept of advocacy tend to wait to be approached by a local voluntary group before initiating a project . |
| 4 | Deciding which measures to implement needs to be based on detailed knowledge of the emissions which power stations , traffic , homes and industry contribute to each pollutant . |
| 5 | As the ageing body loses its ability to cope with alcohol , the amount that can be consumed has to be reduced . |
| 6 | The key element in it is that the process determining the variable about which variables are being formed has to be estimated alongside the rest of the model . |
| 7 | The type of question asked needs to be considered very carefully . |
| 8 | Everything that they borrow has to be put against basic credit approvals . |
| 9 | She did not want to appear to be eavesdropping . |
| 10 | The noise fifteen excited youngsters make has to be heard to be believed . |
| 11 | Many people have worked hard over the last two decades to develop relationships between education and business — the expertise which this represents needs to be respected and harnessed . |
| 12 | The problem with New Right Conservatism is that it has to claim to be reducing the influence of the State in the field of welfare , health , income support and education , but has to maintain the strong State in the arena of law and order . |
| 13 | Complaints about over-pricing tend to be met with a Gallic shrug , a disarming smile and the explanation : ‘ Mais c'est militaire ! ’ |
| 14 | Yet nowhere in the existing research or literature does this need appear to be acknowledged , let alone addressed . |
| 15 | The , the motion I moved needs to be adjusted because of our decision on the probation committee , earlier . |
| 16 | This work has come to be called the ‘ little g minor ’ , linking it in power and mood to the Symphony in the same key , K.550 of 1788 . |
| 17 | This contrasts strongly with practice recommended in much of US literature , particularly that on what has come to be called ‘ competitive intelligence ’ , of a central coordinated and proactive gathering of both formal and informal environmental information and its dissemination throughout the firm . |
| 18 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 19 | The ‘ Inner Game ’ as this type of work has come to be called , is established in tennis and applied to a wide variety of professional and amateur sports by people wishing to improve their game . |
| 20 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 21 | It is difficult not to see in that agreement what has come to be called the ‘ cascade ’ model of curriculum development : materials are prepared centrally and passed down the line for the classroom functionaries to implement . |
| 22 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
| 23 | Worst of all for Scottish pride , what has come to be called the Stone of Scone is no longer in its honoured place . |
| 24 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
| 25 | So far as I am aware , this was the first occasion on which it was made clear that the period which elapses before a prisoner serving a life sentence is released is determined by consideration of two factors , namely : ( i ) the period necessary to satisfy retribution and deterrence , which has come to be called ‘ the tariff ; ’ and ( ii ) a possible further period if it is thought by the Parole Board and/or the Secretary of State that the prisoner would pose an unacceptable risk of danger to the public were he to be released at the end of his tariff period . |
| 26 | Fragrant herbs play a great part in what has come to be called aromatherapy , in which essential fragrant oils from herbs are rubbed on to the skin . |
| 27 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 28 | One other sideways bound was the creation of what has come to be called the police procedural . |
| 29 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
| 30 | In recent years a number of attempts to integrate and coordinate these functions has come to be called Physical Distribution Management . |