Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan for 1988 was that the discount rate was to be fixed each month at 1 per cent above the equivalent annual rate of increase in industrial prices in the previous month . |
| 2 | Twenty in each university were to be taught modern history and languages and , if they reached the required standard , given suitable employment at home or abroad . |
| 3 | He opted to be taught medieval Welsh as a special subject . |
| 4 | No one doubted that some form of physical education should be part of the programme ; nor was there any dissent from the view that girls were to be taught domestic economy and similar subjects in addition to trade and academic courses ; and , thirdly , the terms ‘ vocational ’ and ‘ liberal ’ should be generously interpreted , rather than be seen as mutually exclusive . |
| 5 | ON 13th May , 1992 the Holy Father formally established a new World Day for the Sick to be observed each year on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on 11th February . |
| 6 | They are to be transferred next month from the nearby Bilbohall Hospital but will remain under the supervision of Moray health service doctors . |
| 7 | Some 150 wolves are likely to be killed this year in the region , which is home to the Delta herd of caribou , whose numbers have fallen from 10,700 to 4,500 . |
| 8 | Relatives are valuable and ought to be treated that way . |
| 9 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 10 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 11 | Besides , the girl has done nothing wrong , and I can not allow her to be treated this way . ’ |
| 12 | The Marshal had arrived in time , as he had promised , to see Cipolla delivered to the court and taken upstairs , chained between two other prisoners whose appeals were to be heard that morning . |
| 13 | But the Manx courts have now agreed that copies may be made available to defendants in a criminal case to be heard next year against eight people involved in the Savings&Investment collapse . |
| 14 | In 1990 , ICI , the Belgian company Solvay and others were fined Ecu17m on soda ash ; an appeal is expected to be heard next year . |
| 15 | The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight . |
| 16 | Conditions were extremely arduous and the work exhausting but at least , as one former prisoner testified years later , unlike conventional prisons all over Spain , there was neither the obligation to sing the Falangist hymn , nor the nightly selection ( saca ) of prisoners to be shot next day . |
| 17 | Up to 1.2 million cubic metres are expected to be cut this year — three or four times as much as in 1991 . |
| 18 | Simon Brewster , a research fellow in urology at Southmead Hospital , Bristol , is putting the finishing touches to another prostatic screening follow-up study to be presented next month . |
| 19 | A growth annulus is assumed to be deposited each year , and microscopic rings are thought to record the length of lunar , daily and tidal cycles . |
| 20 | Affirmative evidence rebutting that implication would , I think , be needed if it were to be contended that paragraph ( b ) had not been satisfied . |
| 21 | The highest point on the mountain was , he remembered , to be gained that way , but he would need to go back along the path and so would meet Detective Furness and prick the bubble of aloneness in which he was so happy . |
| 22 | In no way did we want a union type association , it was all to be kept low key and friendly , which suited both ourselves and our administration , for we already had an official union which catered for the needs of the Customs and Excise in general . |
| 23 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 24 | All had now to be arranged long distance but it seemed to work remarkably well . |
| 25 | Parents at the Grammar School are to be balloted next month on opting out , but as Mark Smith now reports it 's a school that 's no stranger to the political battlefield . |
| 26 | Parents at the Grammar School are to be balloted next month on opting out , but as Mark Smith now reports it 's a school that 's no stranger to the political battlefield . |
| 27 | Even for somebody who spoke French it was a mouthful , and it was tedious because it had to be repeated each time one spoke to a Corporal or Sergeant . |
| 28 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
| 29 | A Vintage Weekend which featured a goods train and a vintage passenger train comprising of MR ‘ Shotton ’ coach , the nearly completed LD & ECR and the LMS Horse Box was a successful event which is to be repeated next year . |
| 30 | He was a tall , bony old man , with a long melancholy face and little bushy whiskers — ‘ lamb cutlets , ’ thought Breeze , for they were too small to be called ordinary mutton chops . |