Example sentences of "[verb] to be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the scope of s2(2) is extensive in this respect : ( 2 ) A person who , not having reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment , in the course of any trade or business and with a view to obtaining any payment for what he knows are unsolicited goods sent as aforesaid ( a ) threatens to bring any legal proceedings ; or ( b ) places or causes to be placed the name of any person on a list of defaulters or debtors or threatens to do so ; or ( c ) invokes or causes to be invoked any other collection procedure or threatens to do so , shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ level 5 on the standard scale ] . |
| 2 | Students in initial training do therefore need to be given the opportunity to examine and analyse written school language policies in practice during their periods of school experience . |
| 3 | An expert appointed to resolve all disputes under a construction contract will need to be given the powers of an arbitrator to review certificates issued under the contract , because an expert would not have those powers any more than the court does , unless the parties agree : Northern Regional Health Authority v Derek Crouch Construction Co Ltd [ 1984 ] 1 QB 644 , and 8.4.3 . |
| 4 | Where an expert is resolving disputes under a construction contract he will need to be given the powers of an arbitrator to review certificates issued under the contract by the architect or engineer . |
| 5 | 100 should be sufficient enough for most processes ; you would need to be using the SPR/SSR system very heavily and producing a large number of listings to exceed 100 simultaneous requests . |
| 6 | In such an organization you feel hemmed in by people who can refuse you permission to do something or who are only waiting to jump all over you if you appear to be taking the initiative , or achieving something which even they may recognize as being highly desirable , in ‘ the wrong way ’ . |
| 7 | The broadcasting of discussions and debates between politicians of widely different positions takes place regularly and , when interviewed , critics of the Federal Government appear to be given the same kind of deferential treatment as Federal spokesmen . |
| 8 | And yet few voters appear to be heeding the dire warnings from the conservationists … the party is trailing in the polls at around two per cent . |
| 9 | TEACHERS appear to be mastering the art of showing championship winning sheep with two collecting commemorative Golden Jubilee rosettes the show . |
| 10 | It is no wonder , when so many police officers appear to be doing the duties which prison officers should be doing and so many prisoners are placed in police cells . |
| 11 | That is to say , the initiatives that are under way , far from alleviating concerns repeatedly expressed over the years , appear to be confirming the worst suspicions of teachers and other commentators . |
| 12 | The largest companies appear to be leading the way . |
| 13 | They 're more like a profile , and they will specify the kind of disabilities that the child has , the kind of progress that has been made , the kind of barriers that appear to be hindering the child from making progress . |
| 14 | He had expected to be given the rooms furnished by the College . |
| 15 | PLANNERS hoping to build a £1m Somme Heritage Centre are expected to be given the green light at Ards Borough Council meeting tomorrow night . |
| 16 | Zanardi , who partners Johnny Herbert , is still recovering from his huge practice shunt at Spa-Francorchamps in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix and is not expected to be given the go-ahead to race . |
| 17 | The proposals will go before councillors at a private meeting , and are then expected to be given the go-ahead at a full meeting of Strathclyde Region later in the morning . |
| 18 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 19 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
| 20 | Held : The defendants owed to the plaintiff , as a guest , a duty to take all reasonable care to see that the premises were safe , and their failure to light the passage in a London hotel at 11.20 p.m. , when guests might reasonably be expected to be using the passage was a breach of that duty which had resulted in injury to the plaintiff . |
| 21 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 22 | Chuter was widely expected to be offered the new position , and Spracklen believes that his offer to take it on unpaid was ‘ an embarrassment ’ to the ARA . |
| 23 | Asked if he had expected to be offered the position , Mr Powell told The Art Newspaper , ‘ I felt , on the basis of our discussions , that I was a serious candidate ’ . |
| 24 | About 480 newly qualified lawyers are expected to be awarded the diploma this year . |
| 25 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 26 | I kept my head down and pretended to be consuming the scraps left on my dish . |
| 27 | They seen to be watching the passengers . |
| 28 | During the 1980S France increasingly claimed to be reaping the benefits of French and European space policy decisions taken in the 1973–5 period . |
| 29 | Sharp is claimed to be leading the world in the area of development and production of individual/home information tools and plans development and exploitation of ‘ the next-generation of products based on their ‘ Personal Information Tool ’ initiative which advocates considering communication among people and co-possession of information going beyond the conventional personal idea and creating a new life culture ’ — Their words not ours ! |
| 30 | I intended to resign at the A.G.M. due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area before the next A.G.M. but since no-one else wanted the job I agreed to remain chairman for as long as I could . |