Example sentences of "to be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
| 2 | As you saying to us all only to be said interest in the matter i in the erm the merging matter to . |
| 3 | Fathers-to-be attended the ante-natal clinics and classes — typically taken by a tough and childless instructress — in order to be taught breathing exercises and given labour notes for the day . |
| 4 | We agree with Jones and colleagues that trainees in general practice need to be taught patient centred medicine , but two other components are essential — that is , teamwork and anticipation . |
| 5 | These pupils in Wales do not start formally to be taught English until the age of 7 or 8 ; all pupils in England will be required to be taught English from age 5 . |
| 6 | Depending on the degree of impairment , they may need special large-print books or optical or electronic devices for enlarging and enhancing print , or to be taught braille . |
| 7 | She thought it would do you good to be taught belief . ’ |
| 8 | Toileting is a reflex , so they have to be taught control through a programme of toilet training . |
| 9 | Each of these students has to be taught neurology in a hospital department that has fewer than 100 beds . |
| 10 | We asked Ruby whether the same was true for Australopithecus tanzaniensis , whether they actually had speech or only the capacity to be taught speech . |
| 11 | The Scottish Secretary added : ‘ Children have to be taught right from wrong and to value the distinction . |
| 12 | For a time , however , this policy seemed to be achieving expansion without the problems predicted by their critics . |
| 13 | Later in 1988 these units began to be joined north of the Thames by similar ( but AC current only ) units of Class 321 for use on Cambridge and Northampton services for which sixty-eight units were authorised , together with a further five similar Class 322 units for the Stansted Airport link . |
| 14 | Russia had already put under its jurisdiction border troops in Tajikistan , and Tajik rebel forces were known to be receiving weaponry via this route . |
| 15 | Compared with diabetic patients in urban areas , those in rural areas were less likely to attend a hospital based diabetic clinic ( 46% ( 442 ) v 86% ( 1054 ) , p<0.001 ) ; less likely to be receiving insulin ( 260 ( 27% ) v 416 ( 34% ) , p<0.001 and also after correction for differences in age distribution ) ; more likely to have advanced ( maculopathy or proliferative retinopathy ) diabetic retinopathy ( 13% ( 122 ) v 7% ( 89 ) , p<0.001 ) ; and more likely to require urgent laser photocoagulation for previously unrecognised retinopathy ( 1.4% ( 13 ) v 0.5% ( 6 ) , p<0.02 ) . |
| 16 | These can then be cycled by a tablet-called routine to allow the mechanism to be observed increment throughout its full event . |
| 17 | The three were closely linked and led to two important conclusions : part of the Strategic Reserve would have to be positioned East of Suez ; and there would have to be some stocking of heavy equipment and supplies , and the establishment of essential repair facilities , on the far side of the Arab air/sea barrier . |
| 18 | Cos I was going to be ordering carrier bags anyway . |
| 19 | Other car makers are understood to be evaluating coil coatings which are commonly used in the automotive industry in Japan . |
| 20 | The whole sculpture was to be sprayed gold which would symbolise the prosperity to come . |
| 21 | You ought to be writing detective stories ! ’ |
| 22 | Unlike Napoleon 's mother , Elena Petrescu left no memorable quotation or hint that peasant-wisdom had perhaps already prepared her for her world to be turned downside-up again . |
| 23 | ( The f act that some people move from this argument to suggesting that they ought to be treated worse does not obscure the fairness of the principle . ) |
| 24 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 25 | It made no complaint against the National Futures Association ( NFA ) , the self-regulatory body which was supposed to be watching Stotler Funds , the firm 's mutual-fund arm . |
| 26 | To many pacifists , the conscientious objectors appeared to be substituting self-righteousness for any coherent thinking about the likely consequences of their actions . |
| 27 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection : ‘ Causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ ’ |
| 28 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection ; ‘ causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 29 | It was no time for me to be getting weepy . |
| 30 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |