Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] 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 | The best on road type is the XC type 4 as fitted on 110 vehicles , for more off road use the XCL offers good on and off road manners but is a directional tread pattern and has to be fitted the correct way round . |
| 3 | Surrounded by potential weapons , an inmate has to be given the all-clear by the prison 's hard labour board to ensure potentially dangerous prisoners do not work in the kitchen . |
| 4 | I argued a moment ago that if the student is to enter into his or her own work , and is to be committed to it , he or she simply has to be given the intellectual space — to a degree — to follow his or her own inclinations . |
| 5 | Nostalgia aside , this guitar is eminently playable , although it has to be said the balance problem is a pain in the shoulder . |
| 6 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 7 | Chapter 13 looks at the requirements of educators in using signed messages and argues that even in a teaching environment where English has to be reinforced the teacher requires access to both BSL and signed English . |
| 8 | As a result the fax protocol , which is rather like a file transfer protocol , such as ZMODEM , has to be implemented the comms software driving the modem . |
| 9 | When every simple privilege has to be earned the hard way , the struggle leaves its mark . |
| 10 | Against this has to be set the fact that in times of high inflation the real value of company debt diminishes over time . |
| 11 | Against the benefits has to be set the loss of sovereignty . |
| 12 | That action mainly has to be pressuring the Thames Water Utility Company to er to get its act together , and I must say that er since the last outbreak , they have been working hard at it . |
| 13 | It has to be to get the answers needed . |
| 14 | To these facts has to be added the special susceptibility of British public opinion to liberal and humanitarian appeals . |
| 15 | But there is no doubt the 39-year-old batsman wants to be calling the shots when the Ashes series winds up at The Oval in August . |
| 16 | Our society needs to be given the chance to hear its own heartbeat in its own music — for pleasure first , then also for knowledge and understanding . |
| 17 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 18 | But what is more important is that Gale 's book loses much of its impact because the science is not there to anything like the extent it needs to be to make the difficulties of Charles 's position clear . |
| 19 | At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy . |
| 20 | Ten years of ceaseless fight against socialism ; in favour of flogging and hanging ; and something nice about whoever it is who happens to be leading the Party . |
| 21 | The señora now arrives to be told the story . |
| 22 | No man gets to be called the Ángel of Death just because he tells his men to stand fast and fight . |
| 23 | Up front Bill appears to be inspecting the controls . |
| 24 | Appears to be influencing the human rats and roaches down there not to notice it . |
| 25 | The overall aim appears to be to stop the growth of left-wing political organizations strong enough to challenge both the power of the military and the appallingly low wages and living conditions of plantation workers . |
| 26 | If I may start excuse me , my Lord Mayor , by answering something that appears to be confusing the Conservative benches . |
| 27 | In these vast spaces , concepts rather than characters seem to be doing battle , prominent among them a prince who appears to be acting the part of the roistering boy because he feels it is expected of him . |
| 28 | Moreover , it is not only the quantity but also the composition ( or ‘ quality ’ ) of the North-South drift that appears to be affecting the balance between the two parts of the country . |
| 29 | Although it was originally IBM 's idea , Hewlett-Packard now appears to be taking the lead — but the inclusion of other companies such as SunSoft Inc and Novell Inc is far from assured . |
| 30 | Although originally IBM 's idea , HP now appears to be taking the lead — but the inclusion of other companies such as SunSoft and Novell Inc is far from assured . |