Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] of [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money may , for example , be used as a measure of value enabling comparisons of value to be made between different objects such as houses or cattle . |
| 2 | We want rights of way to be legally defined , definitive maps brought up to date and any conflicts sorted out . |
| 3 | We want rights of way to be properly managed so that people who litter , trespass , leave gates open , or whose dogs kill sheep can be dealt with . |
| 4 | In " The retreate " , a complex linguistic and pragmatic site is displayed , and it is deixis which largely holds this together , enabling frames of context to be created , and leading the reader around and into the work . |
| 5 | It is equally true that Lord Diplock has stated that the normal presumption is that Parliament intends questions of law to be decided by the courts , but his Lordship did not state that this was an irrebuttable presumption . |
| 6 | Every action which is accepted as kindly , every individual act of devotion and sacrifice , whether made in the havoc of war or in times of peace , every act of generosity and in fact every good thing which has resulted from the endless struggle to uphold the decision to master the violent and lustful urges which are a legacy from the evolutionary process , will play its part in providing units of goodness to be enshrined in the Created God . |
| 7 | The [ draft ] FRS also requires appropriations of profit to be shown in the profit and loss account equivalent to the value of shares issued in respect of scrip dividends . |
| 8 | When friends parted , they exchanged loans of money to be returned in the next life . |
| 9 | The free-running ratchet mechanism allow changes of direction to be made with finger and thumb , without releasing the handle . |
| 10 | On the contrary , many followed Malthus in believing that availability of food would always tend to limit population growth , and that the ‘ iron law of wages ’ would prevent the poor from achieving a standard of living allowing diseases of malnutrition to be banished . |
| 11 | However , the functional analysis enabled areas of commonality to be identified at a high or general level , showing how and where the two departments interacted . |
| 12 | Integrating this equation gives and taking limits of integration to be gives . |
| 13 | Computer-controlled resistivity systems have been further developed : in particular an electrode pad for core imaging has been completed in collaboration with Nottingham Polytechnic , allowing sections of core to be imaged automatically . |
| 14 | It enables passages of language to be read in a coherent manner and gives an indication of the rhythm and colour of the speech . |
| 15 | Previously analysed texts have already been used as a source of statistical information to enable parts of speech to be identified in a text on the basis of the likelihood of particular sequences ( for example , the word after the is nearly always a noun ) . |
| 16 | Only two days previously , the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht had suggested lines of propaganda to be carried out after the expected triumph in Stalingrad ‘ in the next days ’ , and took pride in the excellent planning of the Reich 's military leadership after the mistakes of the previous winter . |
| 17 | It would depend upon the construction of the statute whether Parliament intended questions of law to be left to an inferior court . |
| 18 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |