Example sentences of "to be [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistant finance officer with the Western Board — the first to been hoped the payroll personnel system would be operational in all boards by 1989 , so a three to four year delay has occurred . |
| 2 | TEACHERS appear to be mastering the art of showing championship winning sheep with two collecting commemorative Golden Jubilee rosettes the show . |
| 3 | Nostalgia aside , this guitar is eminently playable , although it has to be said the balance problem is a pain in the shoulder . |
| 4 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 5 | The two innermost trees were cut down in 1771 as they were considered to be impoverishing the soil and shading the flowers in the Garden , but the others stood guard by the watergate for another hundred years and no doubt caused interested comment from river travellers . |
| 6 | To avoid these situations it is important for pilots to be taught the right technique for the take-off run . |
| 7 | Thus Adalbert 's monastic background , so far in geographical distance from the Slav missions ( but not on that account far from people who needed to be taught the basics of Christianity ) , shows pastoral awareness . |
| 8 | All those who were familiar with the works of Kerschensteiner knew that the task of the schools was to educate their pupils to serve their fellow citizens ; they were to be taught the value of joy in work as service . |
| 9 | They need to be taught the consequences of their behaviour and that it is not acceptable . |
| 10 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 11 | Women , because of the nurturing and caring roles allocated to them , the responsibility they are given for the well-being and happiness of children and of men , are much more likely to be taught the value of submitting to one 's fate and considering the needs of others before their own . |
| 12 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 13 | There even men with the basic training of craft workers ( preferably in metals ) had still to be taught the specific skills of the skilled factory worker . |
| 14 | Crews , here , were among the first in the country to be taught the additional medical skills that can save lives . |
| 15 | They both looked tense and uncomfortable , and seemed to be searching the journalists for faces they knew . |
| 16 | Freckles certainly seems to be achieving the aim of publicising the plight of her breed . |
| 17 | But it is understood that the US Trade Representative , Carla Hills , is insisting the US retain powers to act unilaterally against European steel producers judged by Washington to be breaking the code . |
| 18 | I am not expecting my parents to be reaching the end of their life when they are fortyish but I am likely to be expecting this , although probably unconsciously , when my parents are ninetyish . |
| 19 | The banks are believed to be reaching the point where their capital will fall below the minimum required under rules imposed by the Bank for International Settlements . |
| 20 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 21 | That so somewhere in i in between you 've got to be receiving the income that you generate . |
| 22 | Those are likely to be extended the following year to include time waits between GP referral and an appointment with a consultant . |
| 23 | His objective seemed to be to save the Radical party 's electoral chances by matching promise for promise the prospectus of the rival Justicialist party . |
| 24 | Their main task seemed to be to inspect the landing grounds that extended across the route from Baghdad to Damascus . |
| 25 | With a third of all health authorities and trusts now thought to be entertaining the idea of introducing job evaluation schemes for nurses , warning noises are beginning to be sounded from all quarters . |
| 26 | And yet few voters appear to be heeding the dire warnings from the conservationists … the party is trailing in the polls at around two per cent . |
| 27 | He was saved by a radio engineer who had studied in England and who happened to be monitoring the audition . |
| 28 | But it 's far too soon to be writing the post-mortems . |
| 29 | He thought you 'd give up and go away , as the woman who was supposed to be writing the book did . |
| 30 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |