Example sentences of "to be [verb] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long-term eating patterns need to be taught and avoidance of inappropriate dieting for children . |
| 2 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 3 | But then the system 's there to be abused and people abuse it . |
| 4 | The navigator plotter and bomb aimer would independently calculate the course to be flown and times to target and an agreement would be reached as to final course . |
| 5 | The machine controls caused power to be applied and consequences to occur which resulted in changed readings on the instruments . |
| 6 | Records are made to be broken and Tom Walker , although holding the record for the longest serving employee within the group , may well qualify for an industry wide record if it were possible . |
| 7 | Basic to the Skinnerian theory of habit formation ( Skinner 1948 and 1957 ) reinforcement is essential if habits are to be strengthened and Politzer affirms that the skill of a teacher lies not in punishing and correcting wrong responses , but in producing situations where the student is induced to respond correctly . |
| 8 | Bronchoscopy can be readily performed and has the added advantage of allowing the patient 's respiratory function to be monitored and 100% oxygen to be administered if required . |
| 9 | Because sleep is likely to be disturbed and insomnia can considerably worsen a patient 's distress , it will often be helpful to prescribe an hypnotic . |
| 10 | One was the recognition that leadership was of prime importance if discipline was to be maintained and armies kept together as teams rather than as collections of individuals . |
| 11 | Simple systems will be set up to allow complaints to be registered and responses given if things go wrong . |
| 12 | Sir Ian Gilmour , sacked from the Cabinet in September 1981 , was on both main television news bulletins on 10 January , telling viewers that being a good listener was not one of Mrs Thatcher 's virtues , and that there had been ‘ a downgrading of Cabinet government ’ ; Cabinet meetings were something to be got through , not the place where views were to be aired and decisions reached . |
| 13 | These two tendencies — looking for natural difference and failing to see cultural difference — reinforce one another , causing men to be studied and women to be stereotyped . |
| 14 | Sea defences : Breakwaters to be constructed and beaches consolidated ( by replacing and compacting the sand that has been washed away ) in order to reduce the effect of the waves . |
| 15 | Morally , end French believed have in view and tactics to achieve such end are to be condemned and US can not be party to return pre-war status or even give such appearance without risking destroying large amount confidence natives still have in US . |
| 16 | The court stated obiter that there is no reason why a section 2(2) notice should not be issued to the applicant after he had been charged , but this statement was accompanied by the clear and crucial corollary that the person who had been charged would have first to be cautioned and questions could only be put for the paragraph 16.5 purposes . |
| 17 | Changes in sea level may cause the swamp to be flooded and layers of sand to be deposited on top of the peat . |
| 18 | The court and the court clerk accepted that if evidence was to be called and witnesses cross-examined , then the hearing was , in effect , a trial , and that two justices would be necessary . |
| 19 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 20 | During the day , the Acropolis is not to be missed and souvenirs can be bartered for in the Flea market . |
| 21 | No-one likes to be tricked and love can so often be mere delusion — a trick of the hormones . |
| 22 | As with all curriculum development there are many questions to be raised and pitfalls to try to avoid . |
| 23 | Concerns , apart from the humanitarian , had to be shelved and communication limited to reinterpreting news channelled via western media . |
| 24 | There were bodies everywhere and everyone seemed to be screaming and crying . |
| 25 | Where the action is for unliquidated damages and the defendant delivers an admission of liability for the claim but disputes or does not admit the amount of the plaintiff 's dam ages , then : ( 1 ) if the defendant offers to pay in satisfaction of the claim a specific sum which the plaintiff accepts , the provisions of this rule shall apply as if the defendant had admitted part of the plaintiff 's claim ; and ( 2 ) in any other case , the plaintiff may apply to the court for such judgment as he may be entitled to upon the admission , and the court may give such judgment , including interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs , or make such other order on the application as it thinks just . |
| 26 | If the claim is for unliquidated damages the request ( N 234 ) is for an interlocutory judgment for damages to be assessed and costs . |
| 27 | This is Rupert , a 5 month old Barn Owl who was deserted by his parents at a few days old , but found in time to be saved and hand reared . |
| 28 | Thus the contribution from short segments to the distribution functions tends to be lost and deviations from the theoretical represent departure from ideal Gaussian behaviour . |
| 29 | The low-paid worker in the ‘ poverty trap ’ may gain nothing , or even lose , from an increase in earnings , when these cause benefits to be lost and tax to be paid . |
| 30 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |