Example sentences of "[is] [prep] be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 2 | Does the standing order form say what day of the month it 's to be taken out on ? |
| 3 | The Kings Head arranged for Bill , now in his 80 's to be brought down , from the North of Inverness , to have his pint at last . |
| 4 | It 's to be found in From the Life ( 1944 ) : one hundred sheets of wartime austerity paper to which Phyllis Bottome commits ‘ six studies of my friends ’ — that 's to say , Alfred Adler , Max Beerbohm , Ivor Novello , Sara Delano Roosevelt , Ezra Pound , and Margaret MacDonald Bottome ( this last the writer 's American grandmother who in her forties became an influential evangelical orator ) . |
| 5 | A study 's to be carried out to see whether it 's feasible for trains to travel along the Great Western line at a hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 6 | The design shown in the drawing is to be cut out of cardboard in one piece . |
| 7 | Privatisation has now split the CEGB into three and the environmental research and development work is to be cut back . |
| 8 | I write to inform you that the above appeal is to be heard on |
| 9 | The existing centre at Northwick Park in north-west London , has not developed its research in collaboration with hospital work , as once hoped , and is to be phased out . |
| 10 | In major enumerative schemes , synthesis is often controlled by careful instructions regarding citation order and the way in which the notation for complex subjects is to be built up from its components . |
| 11 | A replay is to be played out over the proposed Clairville Common complex between Anchor International and local objectors . |
| 12 | You will need the same heading allowance as for pinch pleats if it is to be made up as a curtain heading , but for making a valance you will need only 1.5cm ( ½in ) for the heading allowance . |
| 13 | Mushroom compost is the material from mushroom beds after cropping has finished , by which time the urine content has gone , but it still needs composting if it is to be dug in . |
| 14 | If the shot is to be sent out in black and white the colour must be ignored and the shot viewed in terms of tones of grey . |
| 15 | And , of course , who it is for and where it is to be sent back to — facts which often seem to be forgotten . |
| 16 | A high voltage is used when the phase current is to be turned on or off , while a lower voltage maintains the current at its rated value during continuous excitation … |
| 17 | ‘ A nice thing if an English gentlewoman is to be turned out by Poles to make room for South Americans ! ’ |
| 18 | No need , or less need , to plan more of a book which is to be written out of the right-hand side of your brain , out of intuition . |
| 19 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 20 | If any one element in his style is to be singled out as predominant , it is that haunting expression of far-away desire never absent from the eyes and lips , and conveyed in every gesture , feature and attitude . |
| 21 | But if one issue is to be singled out as representing a point of potential conflict between partners at this time it will most likely concern the relationship between home and employment . |
| 22 | the finance is to be repaid out of the specific asset it has financed and not from the general resources of the entity . |
| 23 | A DOCTOR convicted of attempted murder after giving a dying patient an overdose will know within days if he is to be struck off . |
| 24 | ‘ This area is to be gone over with a fine tooth-comb . |
| 25 | Privatisation is to be pushed through without even the safeguard of a consultative body . |
| 26 | The electricity supply industry is to be broken up and sold . |
| 27 | for proceeding to or returning from a place where it is to be or has been tested , or for proceeding to a place where it is to be broken up or otherwise dismantled . |
| 28 | " recommend earnestly to them to purchase Timber , that may answer the purpose , from the wreck of the Brig stranded on Duich Bay , if she is to be broken up … " |
| 29 | SECURITY at Tatton Park is to be stepped up after valuable garden ornaments were stolen in a night-time raid . |
| 30 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |