Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some people like to plan their trips in meticulous detail , but there 's a lot to be said for this ‘ open-book ’ approach . |
| 32 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 33 | In the old days , with casein , it used to be said of some of the aircraft in the tropics that they were held together by the assembly brads . |
| 34 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that . |
| 36 | There 's something to be said about that . |
| 37 | Not much needs to be said about either , except perhaps to record two aspects : in the first film , a critic said Nicholson 's acting consisted more or less of variations on a grin . |
| 38 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 39 | Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation . |
| 40 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 41 | Chair , I I think what needs to be said in this debate is something positive about the work that has come out of particularly Highfields , er and indeed to some extent Moat , in the past . |
| 42 | Undoubtedly , if two persons enter into an arrangement for the sale of any particular property , and try to settle the terms , but can not agree , and after dispute and discussion respecting the price , they say , " We will refer this question of price to AB , he shall settle it " , and thereupon they agree that the matter shall be referred to his arbitration , that would appear to be an " arbitration " , in the proper sense of the term … ; but if they agree to a price to be fixed by another , that does not appear to me to be an arbitration . |
| 43 | … The second matter applies particularly to private sector , fee-paying schools where , as the Financial Secretary knows , there is often an arrangement for the children of staff in these schools to be taught at less than the commercial fee in other schools . |
| 44 | What Good Friday and Easter Sunday stand for is not something to be taught as such but something which pupils with any understanding at all of Christianity would automatically acquire en route . |
| 45 | But in February 1955 France complained bitterly that the agreement had been infringed by the West German decision to make English the main foreign language to be taught in all schools . |
| 46 | For each key stage , programmes of study are to be drawn up specifying what pupils of different abilities are to be taught in each subject , and attainment targets set out specifying the knowledge , skills and understanding that they are expected to have acquired by the end of the stage . |
| 47 | Another lesson which will need to be taught in these surroundings concerns pebbles . |
| 48 | an agreed departmental policy on the sizes of teaching groups appropriate for the different modes of teaching used in different subject areas and the provision of sufficient staff hours for the modules to be taught in these ways ; |
| 49 | There is too much archaeology to be contained in any undergraduate degree or to be taught by any group of teachers . |
| 50 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 51 | This is not , as it is sometimes believed to be , a matter of crude protectionism ; it is a measure of Japanese difference , and has to be recognized as such . |
| 52 | One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction . |
| 53 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 54 | They walked down into the town , now concealed by darkness , despite regulations that lantern horns were to be displayed outside each house . |
| 55 | You need to be prepared for that . |
| 56 | Thus if learners are aiming to communicate naturally , they need to be prepared for this by being involved in natural communicative language use in the classroom . |
| 57 | And he tells how the SAS photograph the layout of every room in royal residences to be prepared for any kidnap or siege drama . |
| 58 | ‘ If it 's any comfort , I 've never known all the beds to be full , but we have to be prepared for any eventuality . |
| 59 | This involved looking up the ailments common to exotic animals in order to be prepared for any searching questions by the proprietor . |
| 60 | You will need to be prepared for these with stout walking shoes . |