Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 2 | Swindon Town 0 Middlesbrough 1 BERNIE Slaven has been recalled to face Manchester United in the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final first leg at Ayresome Park on Wednesday . |
| 3 | Under the CAP , export subsidies are given to bring EC prices down to world prices . |
| 4 | Brezhnev 's scheme for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to reassure India of the Soviet desire for peace in India 's vicinity . |
| 5 | Mr Midgley said the spillage had been traced to near Lartington treatment works , but there were no reports of wildlife or fish being affected . |
| 6 | The very low prevalence of seropositivity for HIV antibodies in children aged under 6 is encouraging since these children will have received only blood products that had been treated to inactivate HIV . |
| 7 | But he had been reared to rule Orkney , and he would keep his place . |
| 8 | They are the dynamos of the cell being the site where sugars are oxidised to form Adenosine Triphosphate ( ATP ) , the chemical which is the immediate source of energy for most vital processes . |
| 9 | The University of Stirling has been validated to run SCOTVEC modules as is currently offering modules in Italian and Spanish through its Continuing Education Department . |
| 10 | VIP advance booking facilities have been arranged to allow BBC Good Food Show visitors to avoid the queues , by using the special VIP entrance . |
| 11 | SCHOOL governors have given a cautious welcome to news that the go-ahead has been given to expand Darlington 's overcrowded Catholic schools . |
| 12 | Schools minister Michael Fallon said permission had been given to expand St Bede 's from the beginning of the next financial year , which starts today . |
| 13 | The servers are optimised to support NetWare 4.0 and Windows NT , and are due to start shipping June 1 . |
| 14 | Up to now , Mitsubishi Electric 's only widely-reported involvement in microprocessors has been its tie-up with Fujitsu Ltd and Hitachi Ltd on the G-micro family of chips that are optimised to run Japan 's Tron real-time nucleus . |
| 15 | The government , they say , is bluffing when it claims that TECs are intended to tackle Britain 's persistent skills shortage . |
| 16 | The sanctions are designed to force Libya to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects and to co-operate in the investigation in a similar case , the mid-air explosion of a French airliner over Africa in 1989 . |
| 17 | For the future , we have set ourselves a series of targets , spelled out below , which are designed to restore BP 's profitability and build a stronger balance sheet . |
| 18 | The measures are designed to protect Dee salmon from poachers . |
| 19 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 20 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |
| 21 | A manager has been nominated to keep Renshaw informed on personnel issues and developments about the line of work she is involved in . |
| 22 | GOVERNMENT euphoria surrounding the performance of the economy in recent weeks may burst this week after new statistics which are forecast to show Britain 's climb out of recession is slowing . |
| 23 | Nor is Stephen Wall , the Foreign Office man who has been picked to replace Sir Charles Powell as the foreign-affairs adviser at Number Ten . |
| 24 | Recently Asshe 's young daughter — Dinah was seventeen — had been permitted to play Cordelia to her father 's Lear . |
| 25 | The couple are also expected to spend their wedding night in the secluded lodge and are expected to leave Balmoral on Sunday . |
| 26 | They are expected to leave Didcot Parkway at . |
| 27 | An estimated 750,000 people are expected to visit Liverpool Castle over the next 12 months . |
| 28 | Tomorrow they are expected to visit Stockton Anchorage Drop-in Centre , Dovecot Street . |
| 29 | UEFA bosses are expected to visit Britain at the end of this season to look at possible host stadiums . |
| 30 | President Fernando Collor de Mello has been concerned to slough off Brazil 's bad environmental image , and the new figures are expected to ease Brazil 's path in dealing with international institutions . |