Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think , Dr Markham , ’ she said firmly , ‘ if we are to improve the atmosphere around here and have a reasonable working relationship , there are one or two things that need to be said to clear the air . ’ |
| 2 | The horse has to be taught to answer the aids correctly by intelligent use of the aids and instant reward of obedience . |
| 3 | Other tactics being considered to deal with the goats include shooting only females , to cause unnatural social stresses in the population , and the use of dogs to hunt them — though these would have to be neutered to avoid the danger of establishing a new feral colony . |
| 4 | Virgin offered to improve the deal still further to a 75–25 split , but Miles Copeland , Sting 's manager , flatly refused , ostensibly because Virgin were asking for the length of the contract to be extended to include the publishing rights to more albums . |
| 5 | It also boasts an hydraulic system which enables a 20-foot pod to be extended to increase the display area and allows the whole vehicle to lower itself down to a floor height of just 18 inches above the ground . |
| 6 | In 1874 the widow of the latter , carrying out her husband 's wishes , left £1650 , the annual interest of which to be applied to augment the minister 's stipend . |
| 7 | Although all sets and costumes were designed in colour , a lot of ingenuity needed to be applied to make the sets visually more interesting to the viewers ; compensating them for only seeing everything in monochrome and through a slightly muzzy 405 line picture . |
| 8 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 9 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 10 | Of course , the top opening of the bowl will have to be turned to suit the lid . |
| 11 | Unless and until the killing of animals for food becomes illegal then farmers will rear and select those creatures that need to be killed to meet the demand . |
| 12 | The prerogatives attached to shareholding at present would have to be broken to permit the development of social planning and enterprise democracy . |
| 13 | Remember the order of training and try not to be tempted to have the horse ‘ on the bit ’ until the first stages are consolidated and the horse has become supple and balanced . |
| 14 | The philosophy was to ‘ purchase for profit ’ , as few people as possible to be authorised to spend the company 's money whether raw materials , machinery and stationery and never tell anyone how the Company performed . |
| 15 | The demand must be dated and signed by the creditor himself or by a person stating himself to be authorised to make the demand on the creditor 's behalf . |
| 16 | The 80 sheets that require partial revision , are primarily those for which the quality of survey of part of the sheet is known to be so unreliable that that part needs to be resurveyed to bring the whole sheet up to standard . |
| 17 | Service planners have rarely acknowledged the need for emotional support , yet services need to be organized to foster the well-being of existing relationships and to help people develop new ones . |
| 18 | The addition of the care plan will enable service agreements to be tailored to meet the needs of the individual user . |
| 19 | If the terms are to be tailored to fit the client , the client must be " measured " for the terms . |
| 20 | So long as an apparatchik continued to be invited to join the Ceauşescus at play , even the ceaseless rotation of offices could not disguise his continuing status as one of the leaders . |
| 21 | joined in too and that they they really ought to be invited to put the s in the frame as well . |
| 22 | So do n't expect any preferential treatment or to be invited to meet the stars at their Christmas party . |
| 23 | Miron Straf , the director of the Committee on National Statistics in Washington , which monitors and reviews US government statistics , is to be invited to address the Royal Statistical Society ( RSS ) on how his organisation operates and how a similar group could be established in Britain . |
| 24 | IF YOU ARE sufficiently distinguished you may well be lucky enough to be invited to address the prestige conference Advances in Fermentation ‘ 83 to be held in September . |
| 25 | Larger numbers of subjects need to be studied to determine the significance of these preliminary findings . |
| 26 | Ultimately however , one would hope to find a complete , consistent , unified theory that would include all these partial theories as approximations , and that did not need to be adjusted to fit the facts by picking the values of certain arbitrary numbers in the theory . |
| 27 | A snag with the T attenuator is that three resistors need to be adjusted to vary the attenuation yet maintain the input resistance equal to the load resistance . |
| 28 | A reservoir had to be constructed to drive the wheel , which is some distance away from the pump shaft . |
| 29 | At a more subtle level , in both Richard III and Julius Caesar there is a sense in which disregarding portents is part of a more general characterization — of individuals who have taken their destiny into their own hands , or think they have , in contrast to those who consciously submit to their fate.6 However the context in which dreaming is used in the plot has to be constructed to suit the play — the ideology of the culture in which it is set must condition the characters ' responses . |
| 30 | A second building is due to be constructed to house the collection 's other aircraft , which include F-84F , F-84G , RF-84F , Mirage V and an American cruise missile of the 485th TMW , deployed at Florennes until 1988 . |