Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is important that judges should retire earlier than they do , ’ said Mr Hewitt , of Etherley , near Bishop Auckland , who retired in his 73rd year but who has regularly been recalled to sit in judgement during the past two years . |
| 2 | It is n't as pretty as we are given to understand in fairy tales . ’ |
| 3 | The student grant has always been intended to provide for accommodation and therefore to some extent reflects variations in costs . |
| 4 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 5 | Exercise that can help to maintain the elasticity of the vagina are also used to control urinary incontinence and avoid a prolapse — they are the pelvic floor exercises that women are taught to do after childbirth : sit on the lavatory with the thighs parallel to the ground and feet flat on the floor ( or on a book , if necessary ) ; start to pass water , then use the muscles to stop the flow ; release and finish the flow . |
| 6 | Our servile Tongues are taught to cry for Pardon |
| 7 | It is 157 metres long , 92 metres across at its widest , the façade is 68 metres wide , the top of the golden Madonna 's statue ( Il Madonnina ) is 108 metres high , and the whole cathedral has been calculated to weigh in excess of 325,000 tons . |
| 8 | An alternative but related statistic , population potential ( Craig , 1972 ) has therefore been developed to take into account the catchment area of population , but once again different spatial units can produce considerable variations in population potential distributions ( Craig , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | They predicted that he would make friends more easily , reckoning without natural adolescent malice and the excessive value their pupils had been taught to place on modesty , however false . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been remanded to appear in court for a driving offence , ’ Fairham said . |
| 11 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 12 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 13 | The games , which have become an annual event , are intended to appeal to weekend sportsmen and women . |
| 14 | All local plans are intended to develop in detail the broad structure plan policies and indicate how they are to be applied on the ground . |
| 15 | If Mimms had a fiver for every time his errors have been exposed to ridicule on TV , his bank balance would rival that of Rovers ' multi-millionaire tycoon owner , Jack Walker . |
| 16 | The tables are designed to exclude from comparison all the factors that influence examination results , particularly the social class make-up of a school . |
| 17 | ‘ You are forbidden to work in association with him any further . |
| 18 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 19 | For example , the South West Africa Territory Force ( SWATF ) , numbering around 30,000 has been confined to base on full-pay instead of being disbanded . |
| 20 | They were the products of the free institutions of which Britons are bidden to think with pride … one duty was clear : even the vaguest altruist felt that something ought to be done about it . |
| 21 | Since then he has been permitted to search on Crown estates in Morayshire which were last excavated by the Duke of Richmond in 1860 . |
| 22 | On the basis of a 5-4 majority in a Missouri case judged in July , the cases are expected to lead to expansion of the right of individual states to pass laws regulating abortions . |
| 23 | Some 1,500 jobs at Barclays are expected to go before Christmas . |
| 24 | Parents and local authorities are expected to act in partnership motivated by the child 's best interests . |
| 25 | Hotels are expected to spend in excess of £30m in 1986 on adding leisure facilities to their properties and creating 300 new jobs within this specialist area . |
| 26 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 27 | There are a series of formally laid down rules and procedures which medical and social service workers are expected to follow in child abuse cases . |
| 28 | a Policy No policy statements were found to indicate the degree to which dementia sufferers and non-dementing people are expected to mix in day care , or in day hospitals . |
| 29 | Talking of an essay that students are expected to write as part of their course , he says |
| 30 | The machines are expected to come with sample voices , a pronunciation dictionary and a speech synthesiser called QuickTalk as part of planned extensions to Macintosh System 7.1 . |