Example sentences of "to be [verb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 2 | Fathers-to-be attended the ante-natal clinics and classes — typically taken by a tough and childless instructress — in order to be taught breathing exercises and given labour notes for the day . |
| 3 | Cos I was going to be ordering carrier bags anyway . |
| 4 | Other car makers are understood to be evaluating coil coatings which are commonly used in the automotive industry in Japan . |
| 5 | You ought to be writing detective stories ! ’ |
| 6 | It made no complaint against the National Futures Association ( NFA ) , the self-regulatory body which was supposed to be watching Stotler Funds , the firm 's mutual-fund arm . |
| 7 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |
| 8 | He seemed to be telling team mates that his parachute had not performed correctly . |
| 9 | I was n't sure how long a day was on Fraxilly — and I did n't want to be wandering Rat City after dark . |
| 10 | A bill is at this moment passing through Parliament which will enable the Milk Marketing Board to change from a statutory monopoly into a milk-buying co-operative , similar to those that already exist on the Continent , to be called Milk Marque . |
| 11 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 12 | The tenanted side of the Pubmaster pub retailing division is to be called Threshold Inns and not Legend Inns as I reported last month . |
| 13 | The system , thought to be called Support Advantage , was developed in C++ , uses a client/server architecture and CASE-based analysis . |
| 14 | One further important change is the replacement of place of safety orders with what are to be called emergency protection orders . |
| 15 | For example , to make methyl alcohol ( methanol , which used to be called wood alcohol ) , a 1:2 ratio is required , |
| 16 | It is to be called Gillaroo Court , an inspired choice of name since that is the species of red coloured trout unique to Lough Melvin . |
| 17 | FRIENDSHIP BUREAUX These used to be called marriage bureaux . |
| 18 | Miller poignantly captures the variety and conflict of feelings that followed the war — the mixture of relief , sorrow , dissatisfaction , and what came to be called survival guilt . |
| 19 | Mr. Secretary Heseltine , supported by The Prime Minister , Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Newton , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. Michael Portillo and Mr. Robert Key , presented a Bill to provide for certain local authorities to levy and collect a new tax , to be called council tax ; to abolish community charges ; to make further provision with respect to local government finance ( including provision with respect to certain grants by local authorities ) ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 3 . ] |
| 20 | The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is building a further nine film and television studios in a complex to be called Television World . |
| 21 | To be called Apple Workgroup Servers the machines are derived from the Apple Centris 600 series and Quadra 800 and 950 systems . |
| 22 | To be called Apple Workgroup Servers the machines are based on the Apple Centris 600 series and Quadra 800 and 950 platforms . |
| 23 | However , the ethyl ester of ethanoic acid used to be called ethyl acetate , whereas today it is ethyl ethanoate . |
| 24 | We 're going to go on to what used to be called club foot which is a fairly gross word word Right |
| 25 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |
| 26 | I did that and now because of the corrupt politics of an organisation hated and disrespected around the world they 're challenging my rights to be called world champion . |
| 27 | They used to be called tea gowns many years ago . |
| 28 | They are much less likely to be using mail order . |
| 29 | Upgrading the facilities would primarily involve an extension to the computer network to service three additional visitors per year , at a cost of 4500 Ecu , and the provision of an additional research microscope if the proposed visitor were to be considering diatom research , at a cost of 45000 Ecu . |
| 30 | In the design and layout of the housing , the new villages like Blidworth , Harworth and Ollerton bore the imprint of the ideas about planned communities ( such as garden villages ) extant at the time , and the companies claimed to be establishing model communities ( Griffin , 1971 , pp. 168–70 ; Waller , 1983 , pp. 254ff . ) . |