Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 2 | Agree either that there continue to be no lower limit for the remuneration certificate jurisdiction or that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide for a lower limit of £100 profit costs . |
| 3 | No greater incentive can be given to enter on a life of extravagant and riotous living which the sumptuary laws used to forbid , social conscience to deplore and socialist politicians to inveigh against . |
| 4 | In Venda , following a special session of the homeland assembly on March 13 , it was announced that a similar referendum would be held on reintegration , and also that the Constitution would be revised to allow for a multiparty system . |
| 5 | Advanced Micro says a number of its personnel will be assigned to work on a full-time basis at Hewlett-Packard 's Deer Creek Research and Development Facility in Palo Alto , California over the next two years , although some tasks associated with the project will be handled at Advanced Micro 's Submicron Development Centre in Sunnyvale . |
| 6 | Hindley warned Heathcliff that he must never speak to Catherine again , or he would be sent away from Wuthering Heights , and it was decided that Catherine would be taught to behave like a young lady . |
| 7 | For example , a dog can be taught to jump through a hoop , but there is no stimulus to which jumping through a hoop is the unconditioned response . |
| 8 | The basic offence would cover amateur hackers who access systems for fun and would be intended to act as a general deterrent to all types of hacking . |
| 9 | Guo and Bradshaw carried out analyses of the nutrient ( N , P and K ) and energy flow patterns within the village and have conducted a variety of experiments to see how these patterns can be modified to result in a greater retention of nutrients and a more efficient return of energy to the human population . |
| 10 | A local bureau may be approached to talk to a group of probation officers . |
| 11 | Mrs C. McBean will be approached to act as a pianist . |
| 12 | The winner will automatically be booked to appear on a paid basis at a later Gong Show and as a support to one of the visiting star acts . |
| 13 | To be truly effective a system needs to be designed to cope with a wide range of inputs . |
| 14 | A programme of this kind will be designed to operate within a national Arts Centre development programme , which is at present being discussed within the Arts Council . |
| 15 | While there are many calculations and constructions which will allow mechanisms to be designed to pass through a set number of control points , they carry no guarantees that the mechanisms will not have to pass through infinity between some of them . |
| 16 | That is , continuous dynamic dealing with minor perturbations is automatic and so also is the application of basic rules about safety ; for example , the system or some part of it might be programmed to go through a step-change function such as a shut-down if certain parameters exceed prescribed limits . |
| 17 | The surface of the tablet can be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting the main functions . |
| 18 | The surface of the tablet can also be programmed to act as a menu that selects standard options from the program so that the keyboard need only be used for selecting major functions or entering text . |
| 19 | In this way , there is no physical limit to the number of adjacent needles that can be programmed to tuck within a pattern . |
| 20 | The Economist that bastion of left wing thinking commissioned an actuary to estimate the likely number of vacancies during a parliament ten point seven three sorry to be precise about this colleagues Tory MPs can be expected to die over a full five year term , I 'm sorry for being morbid . |
| 21 | Furthermore , there is not a strong tradition of non-formal education within the labour movement in the USA which might ideally be expected to serve as a training ground for working with Highlander . |
| 22 | Lady Merchiston 's situation , Theda recognised , was symptomatic of the whole , and she could appreciate that the Diggorys could scarcely be expected to cope with a task that would baffle an army of servants . |
| 23 | As a few of these modules may have started in a previous session , or may be expected to finish in a future session , some will count in statistics for more than one session . |
| 24 | This should not only be expected to happen as a natural consequence of ‘ the Church 's active , sympathetic presence within the world of communications ’ ( ibid. ) , but also as the result of a precise commitment on the part of communicators . |
| 25 | Those in working-class jobs and those with no jobs at all might be expected to opt for a party that offers some degree of social change and appears more empathic toward the " have-nots " than toward the " haves . " |
| 26 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 27 | Nursing care is individual to each patient , as the patient should not be expected to conform to a set pattern of treatment . |
| 28 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 29 | A left hemisphere advantage for matching by name ( Cohen , 1972 ) would be expected to lead to a RVF superiority on a memory search for letter names . |
| 30 | Moreover , a cash supplement to income would also be expected to lead to a fall in work effort . |