Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this , sufficient domestic tax relief would be given to compensate for higher import prices resulting from tariffs up to current levels of imports . |
| 2 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 3 | At present , people living in mental hospitals are therefore disadvantaged compared with those living at home , who can be registered to vote without any test of competence . |
| 4 | The spread ratio can be adjusted to allow for this differential response to a change in the level of market prices . |
| 5 | The rule could be made simple or complex and even a simple rule could be adjusted to deal with real shocks to the economy , such as from OPEC hikes in the price of oil . |
| 6 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 7 | An octopus can be taught to discriminate between vertical and horizontal bars , but it is unable to learn the difference between the bars at +45° and at -45° . |
| 8 | Dealers would be taught to respond like this : " We could do that . |
| 9 | Moreover I firmly believe that children can not satisfactorily be taught to read in two languages at the same time and that they will be better English readers if they learn it after they have mastered the skill in their mother tongue . |
| 10 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 11 | The hanging and design of the last room will be intended to reproduce to some extent the appearance of a Water-Colour Society 's exhibition of around 1830 with red walls . |
| 12 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 13 | These techniques can be considered to alter in some predetermined fashion the way in which the image is presented to the viewer . |
| 14 | It has been used in previous systems such as HWIM and Klatt 's LAFS system , and so the ways in which it can be modified to deal with certain requirements of the speech processing problem have already been explored . |
| 15 | In general this angle is θ for a homoatomic chain and equation ( 10.4 ) can be modified to allow for these short range interactions . |
| 16 | it can be modified to run on unleaded petrol |
| 17 | Any one of these may be highlighted and then located in the database to display a full summary of its present rating with regard to the nature of the substance , its source and effect on man , and notes may be added to expand on this . |
| 18 | At the classroom level , the teaching and learning methods have to be organised to allow for much more than simple coverage of the topic . |
| 19 | And nobody seems to be itching to speak on this report . |
| 20 | The teaching task is to see that the techniques that are used are effective in promoting learning objectives , so they have to be designed to account for specific contexts of instruction . |
| 21 | The specialist brochures should be designed to elaborate on particular features for particular consumer groups , and may contain more diagrammatic and other illustrative material to do this . |
| 22 | But ALT will be designed to operate across distributed computing environments . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 24 | A line can be programmed to vary in effective length . |
| 25 | job mobility : will the employee be expected to move to another town if the employer wants him to work elsewhere ? |
| 26 | Out of a population of 8000 ‘ normal ’ men , 17.2 would be expected to die of such cancers . |
| 27 | The UK Atomic Energy Authority , in a " worst-case scenario " , suggested that some 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide . |
| 28 | In a " worst-case scenario " , the UK Atomic Energy Authority has suggested that up to 10,000 Soviet citizens could be expected to die of radiation-induced cancer as a result of the accident , with a further 30,000 fatalities possible worldwide . |
| 29 | For every 1000 patients admitted to hospital with acute evolving myocardial infarction , about 100 can be expected to die within 35 days . |
| 30 | If questioned about the response , the attitude-holder can be expected to engage in explicit justification of their stance and to offer criticism of the counter-stance . |