Example sentences of "to be [verb] [adv] [art] " 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 | ‘ I must not be understood to be laying down a rule that in no case where a wife acts on her husband 's instructions and under his influence is it necessary to show that she has received independent advice . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The best thing that could have happened to IBM was to be broken up a decade or more ago . |
| 6 | All credit limits need also to be revalidated once a year . |
| 7 | If the rabbits are to be shot then the man required to do the shooting must be freed from all other responsibilities . |
| 8 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 9 | " To be bossing up the school . |
| 10 | Ford rumoured to be bringing out a new Capri — a nation quakes |
| 11 | BRITISH Rail has launched an investigation to discover how a herd of cows came to be wandering down the Saltburn-Darlington line last week . |
| 12 | The reader has to be led up the garden path . |
| 13 | Er , but that assertion needs to be examined just a little more closely because the British government are not without blame in relation to this matter , er the issues er affecting these forthcoming elections should have been resolved at the Edinburgh summit during the presidency of the British government . |
| 14 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 15 | No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The German barrage seemed to be slackening off a bit , though the Allied guns were still firing over our positions , their shells shaking the trees as they headed toward the German trenches with a loud swish as they passed overhead . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | These BSL interpreters appeared to be using only a single register , and this corresponded to a signed version closely tied to the English of the original message . |
| 21 | Upwind , however , the daggerboard is still kept in the down position , though in extreme conditions it needs to be moved back a few centimetres . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 25 | Answer guide : This raises the question of when the earnings process is complete and in this case it would seem that the process is not going to be completed therefore no entries need to be made . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Wulfstan simply says that warships ought to be made ready every year after Easter . |
| 29 | Although a sequential file using a record storage format in which keys are separate from data can also skip records , every key has to be checked so every track has to be traversed , whether any records on it are required or not . |
| 30 | The latter two allow the tool to be hung on a wall by two screws , which pass through the plastic sheath and convert it into a vertical holder . |