Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 2 | Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower , but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place . |
| 3 | Initally all the cargo had to be manhandled off . |
| 4 | The deer were not to be fenced out of enclosures in the forest with ‘ unreasonable hedges and ditches ’ , unless ‘ the greater part of the enclosure be sown with corn ’ . |
| 5 | Not Beethoven playing for everyday listening perhaps , but rather a fine wine , to be pondered over , and deliberated upon at length before its true quality most fully reveals itself . |
| 6 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 7 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 8 | Interox to be split up |
| 9 | And that me and my old pal Norman Whiteside were on a collision course with him , that we needed to be split up . |
| 10 | He is strongly motivated by a desire for the collection never to be split up again . |
| 11 | Hurray-for-the-Medici cycle of paintings to be split up after 370 years |
| 12 | They overcame this problem by imagining a full turn , or one revolution , to be split up into 360 equal pieces . |
| 13 | It is not a great idea for us to be split up at this time . ’ |
| 14 | Either the government can order large firms to be split up into smaller independent companies , which it is hoped will act more competitively ( the so-called ‘ structural approach ’ ) , or the government can leave monopoly firms intact but seek to control their performance , for example by monitoring prices and profits and ordering price reductions when firms appear to be exerting their potential monopoly power . |
| 15 | Answer guide : This question needs to be split up into its constituent parts in order to take the student through the progression logically . |
| 16 | It 's bad enough having a seriously ill child without all having to be split up . |
| 17 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 18 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 19 | Pain has to be faced , to be gone through , you ca n't make it better by getting into bed with me . ’ |
| 20 | It will be seen that the new s 370A is not a significant change , since all the formalities of calling and holding a meeting would have to be gone through . |
| 21 | Often images and often the sense of the beginning and the end of a poem are all you have — some journey to be gone through between those things — you know that , but you do n't know the details . |
| 22 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 23 | Various other procedures have to be gone through but it is expected that the title will be completed within the next six months . |
| 24 | Various other procedures have to be gone through but it is expected that the title will be completed within the next six months . |
| 25 | Instead , a full selection procedure was to be gone through during the lifetime of a Parliament , thus allowing other aspiring candidates to be considered . |
| 26 | If the pregnancy has to be gone through and does continue and the mother does not want to or can not keep the child there is the option of adoption . |
| 27 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 28 | So much work still had to be done , so much work had to be gone over again . |
| 29 | But she was too bright and restless with happiness , the newly-stirred memories , to be gone over , noted and enjoyed , for any unhappiness merely because soup was denied her . |
| 30 | ‘ This area is to be gone over with a fine tooth-comb . |