Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , RACs should be asked to consider what the paper inelegantly described as ‘ resource availability and future coordination in respect of training for education management ’ , and consideration should be given to setting up a national advisory and consultative group . |
| 2 | ca n't be bothered to going out again boy . |
| 3 | The backswing can be compared to chopping down a tree with and axe ; power and speed come from the distance the axe is swung back . |
| 4 | Those failing to take themselves through such graded stress inoculation may be reduced to falling back on an all-or-none defence mechanism in which awareness of the stressful event is completely blocked out , or is experienced in overwhelming intensity . |
| 5 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 6 | Information flow does not have to be restricted to passing up and down the scalar chain , but authority should . |