Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have this afternoon been trying to question the girl , who 's said to be extremely distressed . |
| 2 | The commanders of Operation Desert Storm are beginning to feel the same way . |
| 3 | A number of properties of text are known to influence the way in which the reader 's eyes move . |
| 4 | In Schutzhund work , fighting instinct and play are used to teach the dog to take the sleeve . |
| 5 | In principle FELs can have calculated efficiencies as high as 30–50 per cent when the dimensions of the wiggler are tapered to match the decreasing energy of the electrons traversing it . |
| 6 | On the stage , The Wedding Present are beginning to see the light . ’ |
| 7 | The legendary performer 's past and present are unmasked to reveal the politicians , mobsters and movie star who parade through his life . |
| 8 | Here 10 of the 16 possible bit patterns of a 4 bit field are used to represent the decimal digits 0 to 9 , the remaining 6 being unused . |
| 9 | Members who have lost touch with the Association are invited to contact The Honorary Secretary , Dr J. W. Binns , at the Centre for Medieval Studies , University of York , King 's Manor , York YO1 2EP stating what years they were in Hall , whereupon they will be added to the mailing list . |
| 10 | With Wales ' top clubs running in sackfuls of tries and playing to packed houses , Davies believes the national side are poised to reap the benefits . |
| 11 | Note that because of the word " that " in s254(5) , the Revenue are known to hold the view that a distribution out of share premium account is nevertheless a distribution on which ACT is payable , in relation to shares other than those originally giving rise to the creation of the share premium account . |
| 12 | Pirate video copies of this year 's most talked about movie are set to flood the region . |
| 13 | Work on the stand has already begun and the club are hoping to extend the plans to include seven executive boxes and a press box . |
| 14 | Only 2 to 5ul of blood are needed to transmit the virus during a needlestick injury . |
| 15 | Why had no attempt been made to arrest the kidnappers at the handover ? |
| 16 | The hoist has a capacity of 50 tons for boats of FAB 3's dimensions and both it and the dock are designed to accommodate the largest lifeboats at present envisaged . |
| 17 | The techniques to be presented in this chapter are designed to examine the relationship between three variables in a contingency table . |
| 18 | The experiments in this chapter are designed to determine the magnitude of this increase and to assess whether this would place an unmanageable burden on syntactic and semantic filtering . |
| 19 | Some 40 per cent of women with gonorrhoea are found to harbour the bug in the rectum and it is clear that in only a minority of cases has the gonococcus been ‘ placed ’ there . |
| 20 | With rapid and sustained economic growth more capital becomes available to finance investment in labour saving machinery , and higher labour rewards in the advanced sector of industry are thought to encourage the mobility of labour away from the small firm sector . |
| 21 | In this way , thought and action are conditioned to serve the interests of capitalism through an ideological hegemony . |
| 22 | Nor , it was pointed out , had any action been taken to end the discriminatory " Status Acts " passed between 1976 and 1981 which unilaterally conferred " independence " on the homelands of Transkei , Bophutatswana , Venda and Ciskei , whose people , totalling 8,000,000 , had been deprived of their South African nationality . |
| 23 | The place and the biography are needed to locate the viewpoint , because Glen collected much of the material on his doorstep in interviews with scientists from Berkeley . |
| 24 | Rather , it seems preferable that , in making a general assessment of the quality of life of a particular old person , some attempt be made to examine the negative and positive aspects of the relationships which they presently experience . |
| 25 | that action be taken to reverse the decision ; |
| 26 | Western style financial institutions , infrastructure and factory-based industry were promoted to provide the requisite economic foundations for international strength . |
| 27 | In July 1945 the boundaries of Mountbatten 's South East Asia Command were extended to include the Netherlands East Indies and the southern part of Indochina as well as the original Burma , Siam , Malaya , Singapore , and Sumatra . |
| 28 | At the beginning of the war , parliament seized the remainder of the money which Laud had collected for the repair of old St Paul 's , and the MPs later gave the scaffolding being used to repair the tower to one of its army regiments in lieu of pay . |
| 29 | In 1987 members of the 308 Club Sub Aqua Association were trying to locate the wreck of the Caducius , a composite sailing barque , which was iron framed , with timber decking and hull , and sheathed in brass or copper to prevent worm damage . |
| 30 | The behaviour of laminin and clinical and laboratory data in 83 patients with cirrhosis were studied to find the factors associated with increases in this glycoprotein . |