Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 2 | Obviously for the average electrician , stockbroker , or humanities-trained academic to be laying down the law un the value of a human blood substitute from cows or the spread of BSE would , as things stand , be foolish . |
| 3 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 4 | If the rabbits are to be shot then the man required to do the shooting must be freed from all other responsibilities . |
| 5 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 6 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 7 | The reader has to be led up the garden path . |
| 8 | Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process . |
| 9 | Each of these gates were fitted with a sluice , to enable the space between it and the gate on the tank to be flooded once the join had been made . |
| 10 | The account from which LIFESPAN RDBI is to be run i.e. the LIFESPAN process account , has sufficient quotas as specified in the LIFESPAN RDBI installation notes ( reference 11 ) . |
| 11 | More than once flight recorder transducers have been found to be connected up the wrong way round , showing a turn to the left when in fact it was a turn to the right or showing a nose-up attitude when it was really nose-down . |
| 12 | The books were , deservedly , enormously successful and stories in the genre have continued to be written down the years and show no sign of drying up . |
| 13 | I will argue that a major readjustment needs to be made whereby the researcher takes on a more participative role working with and alongside practitioners and clients . |
| 14 | But as I quickly discovered , if any real progress is to be made even the most reactionary views need to be listened to and respected . |
| 15 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 16 | As far as the extent of this limited edition being only 200 is concerned , my only reservations are outlined above : namely that a guitar is designed to be used and not coveted wholly as an objet d'art to be hung on the wall , which I suspect is exactly where the bulk of these models are likely to end up . |
| 17 | Even punk , once the rhetoric about dole queues , anarchy and Sten guns in Knightsbridge had been exhausted , had become just one more uniform to be hung on the clothesrail of British pop culture , to be dusted down nostalgically on anniversaries . |
| 18 | If paintings or prints are to be hung on the walls it is important to work out beforehand where they are going to go , and to make sure that battens are fixed in these particular areas . |
| 19 | Nowhere to be seen when the shrapnel was flying . |
| 20 | It remains to be seen how the XM stacks up against traditional executive fare , but the chances are that it will be too exotic for the British palate . |
| 21 | However , it remains to be seen how the class struggle , and the part it plays in history , are to be analysed . |
| 22 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 23 | It remains to be seen how the ITC will go about monitoring compliance with the statutory duties — it will certainly come under pressure to punish television stations which infringe the more detailed codes issued by the Broadcasting Standards Council and which suffer regular adverse adjudications from the Broadcasting Complaints Commission . |
| 24 | They spend so much time immersed in unglamorous stuff — transient and trivial details that vanish and reappear to be done again the next moment . |
| 25 | Many women say cleaning is boring : you do it one day and there it is to be done again the next . |
| 26 | ‘ They expect servants to be invisible , but they expect the work to be done all the same , ’ put in Ethel . |
| 27 | Cases of unsuitable placements were common , but there was very little to be done once the assignment had gone ahead . |
| 28 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. announced that for reasons to be given later the court would order that W. be transferred to the proposed specialist unit and there receive treatment without her consent . |
| 29 | The ballet was popular enough to be given again the following summer . |
| 30 | Turning to the final point of the 1952 directive , it is noteworthy that ministers are to be given only the information MI5 decides they need . |