Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 2 | Ken Bates , the Chelsea chairman , had been given until tomorrow to pay £22.85 million to Cabra Estates , the property company who are Stamford Bridge 's landlords , as the independent valuation put on the ground . |
| 3 | Despite the restriction of the survey to schools which had been scheduled at least to have made a start on the review , only four-fifths of the teachers included actually had . |
| 4 | Make sure that all canes of raspberries , blackberries and other fruits are tied in securely to prevent breakage and chafing . |
| 5 | It is imperative that these claims are dealt with discreetly to avoid any distress to the deceased 's relatives . |
| 6 | In the public sector the government can be relied upon always to raise through taxation the funds necessary to honour its pension obligations . |
| 7 | The bass trombone can therefore be relied upon now to have a compass from E natural below the bass stave to B flat above the tenor stave . |
| 8 | So , shareholders can not be relied upon necessarily to provide much of a constraint on managers . |
| 9 | And then it twists , and like a small office , and when when I were there , after Michael had shown it me and Colin , he says oh , he says , er I 'm come in here to get get out of way , and you know , he was like telling me , I thought I do n't want to be a fiddle , because it 's alright telling Colin , the boys |
| 10 | All gas and electrical equipment and appliances , wiring , lamp holders , power points and plugs , and particularly electric blankets should be checked for safety and efficiency , and taps , pipes and tanks should be looked at also to see if they are in need of attention . |
| 11 | Even the oilfields which have been discovered and appraised need to be looked at again to determine whether they are still profitable at low oil prices . |
| 12 | What about for local businesses , erm what do you think could be done to actually to attract more businesses to the area ? |
| 13 | In other words , having debited principal and interest for loans raised to operating statements , rates had to be collected at least to cover those repayments ( S. 2 , General Rate Act 1967 ) . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend says that cash is available which could be used at least to make some payment to doctors who had their payments limited by the list size criterion . |
| 15 | An advantage of this technique is that , with glass LC cell walls and transparent electrodes , the displays can be lit from behind to create a luminous image more like the TV we all know and love . |
| 16 | They had to be disposed of quickly to make room in the depôts for the new cars on order to work on the main line . |
| 17 | The water had to be put in immediately to correspond to the sky above it . |
| 18 | If the boy would not listen to poetry , then he should be forced at least to understand some grammar . |
| 19 | Whether the end result will lead to better governmental accounting is impossible to say , but it seems clear that major steps are being taken and will continue to be taken at least to understand the commonalities and differences between accounting for businesses and accounting for governmental units . |
| 20 | If a caution was required , it can not be dispensed with simply to facilitate the operation . |
| 21 | ‘ Today , information technology must be conceived of broadly to encompass the information that businesses create and use as well as the wide spectrum of increasingly convergent and linked technologies that process the information . ’ |
| 22 | Thérèse said : you 've been put in here to spy on me . |
| 23 | Successive legislative steps have been taken since then to tighten the restrictions on access to tobacco by young children . |
| 24 | This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland , a state of war would exist between us . |
| 25 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 26 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the political , social and economic reforms undertaken by Japan 's leaders , as well as Japan 's new relationship with the outside world , were bound before long to have an impact on the lives of all Japanese . |
| 28 | We were called in twice to enforce the order , he spent a weekend in Saughton the second time . ’ |
| 29 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 30 | Later , when Jerusalem was the capital , as soon as the appearance of the new moon had been proved by credible witnesses before the Sanhedrin , messengers were dispatched from there to announce the commencement of the new month . |