Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 2 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 3 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 4 | Tory Cathedral ward representatives Jim Melville and John Candler called for the objection to be couched in the strongest terms . |
| 5 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 6 | People will then not have to be burdened with the labels of friction and division . |
| 7 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 8 | They do not seem to be burdened with the same difficulties as the private profession , presumably partly because of the different image of the agency involved and the different expectations of the client involved . |
| 9 | A new electoral law , passed by the National Assembly on April 18 , 1989 , and signed by Ortega on April 22 , provided for elections to be overseen by a new Supreme Electoral Council comprising five members elected by the National Assembly from among candidates proposed by the President , including two from opposition parties . |
| 10 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 11 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 12 | This project was the first to be overseen by the new Clerk to the Governors , Mr. T. R. Ellis , an Old Stopfordian who had been appointed when the previous Clerk retired in 1942 . |
| 13 | There was even a touch of irony in the fact that the proceeds from the gala evening given at Covent Garden by the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre were to be split between the Mariinsky itself and the Royal Opera House Trust . |
| 14 | A second factor which I 'd like to raise , and please stop me , sir , if I 'm not playing your ground rules here , is to get back to the original point made by Mr Davis , as to how this figure is going to be split between the districts , I think it 's absolutely essential that this figure is split between the districts , and it may well be , if you decide , sir , to recommend in favour of the new settlement that you may have to leave that as a floating figure to go around the districts , at the moment it is not . |
| 15 | My business is going to be split between the two areas , ’ Vitor said , ‘ so either suits me . |
| 16 | A raffle organised by the Triangle Community Association of Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , raised more than £2,256 to be split between the TCA and South Cleveland Hospital 's appeal for a lithotripter machine to break up kidney stones . |
| 17 | Langhorne was it just then , and the race was won by one A. J. Foyt , not by Mario , who came in ninth in his Windmill Truckers Special : for $637 , to be split with the owners , and with hands like hamburgers . |
| 18 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 19 | VTAM , the Virtual Telecommunications Access Method , is the first application to be split from the network , and with the new 3.4.2 release , it can now run natively over TCP/IP , and comes with support for OS/2-based machines too . |
| 20 | And tomorrow night we 'll be hearing reactions to the possibility of VAT being added to books and newspapers , another area thought likely to be targetted by the Chancellor . |
| 21 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 22 | The average ranking of the correct word is only three , and a number of words ( between 5 and 25 ) have to be hypothesized in the hope of including the correct word . |
| 23 | And ministerial statements have actually indicated that it 's not likely to appear , as a final version , until next year at the earliest , and so it would seem to me that there 's a great deal of thought to be gone into the precise wording of that P P G yet , and to rely on quotes from it wou is , is , is at best er , misleading , and I think we ought to bear in mind something that Mr Curtis mentioned this morning , that in fact the change that happened between draft P P G three and the final version , it is quite possible that the final version of P P G thirteen could be substantially different from the |
| 24 | Why it 's cool to be gone with the wind . |
| 25 | It seems to be gone for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 27 | The effervescent executive is likely to be gone in a few years , many of the employees will be gone , and the owners may be different as well . |
| 28 | It occurred to Lyn — fleetingly , to be gone in a moment that most men would have broken such a thing more gently to their wives . |
| 29 | She wanted to be gone before the police arrived and Ayling did not press her with convincing enthusiasm . |
| 30 | Duclos offered his hand , anxious to be gone from the unwholesome presence of the recruiter . |