Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait awhile ; the troops there were drilling in preparation for being shipped to some Godforsaken town in the Low Countries to wage one of Fat Henry 's futile , forgotten wars . |
| 2 | Life was different and designers , especially the owners of the houses , they still had something which does n't exist any more , social complexes about being invited to certain parties . |
| 3 | 8.7 It is anticipated on the basis of past experience that employees will in some respect ‘ self-select ’ for external counselling as a reaction to extreme personal stress sustained as a result of being subjected to severe violence or aggressive behaviour . |
| 4 | Seventeen year old Ritu Vasudeva spoke of how her family sheltered in their house for a month for fear of being taken to one of Saddam 's guest hotels , then they had to forge exit papers to enable them to escape . |
| 5 | We have been left so much to our own devices — after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people 's . |
| 6 | After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US . |
| 7 | Alternative plans , however , allow an episode to be expanded to four periods or reduced to only one period where time or access to equipment is limited . |
| 8 | To encourage our work force to be committed to environmental issues . |
| 9 | Smith looked to the discipline which he encountered in the Volunteer Force to be put to good use , while the programme of uniform , bands , drill , camps , recreation rooms , and religious instruction was intended to attract young adolescents so that their leisure time might be ‘ organized ’ . |
| 10 | Each year , Clerical Medical announces the rate of annual bonus to be added to each eligible policy . |
| 11 | Each year , Clerical Medical announces the rate of annual bonus to be added to each eligible policy . |
| 12 | Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect . |
| 13 | If this is the case , then it suggests that an important aspect of skilled reading is to avoid attending too closely to what is being fixated at any one moment , and to allow our eyes to be attracted to nearby interesting meanings . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects the higher standards of residual stability recommended by the steering committee of the roll on/roll off ferry safety research programme to be applied to all roll on/roll off ferries using British ports . |
| 15 | A further general concern with the relaxed exclusionary rule in Pepper v. Hart is that , no doubt in an effort to limit the use of parliamentary material , it conflates questions of the admissibility of the material with questions of the weight to be given to admitted material . |
| 16 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 17 | An obvious example is the weight to be given to each of the central initiatives and the most appropriate form of implementation . |
| 18 | But the Law Lords unanimously decided that he was obliged to have regard only to ‘ material considerations ’ and that the amount of weight to be given to these was a matter for his judgment . |
| 19 | Any material which is relevant and helpful may be considered , though the weight to be attached to different types of evidence will vary . |
| 20 | Foster City , California-based Blyth Holdings Inc says that the Norwegian Police Force has chosen to standardise on the company 's Omnis Seven Plus Windows-based software on thousands of personal computers to be linked to unidentified Unix servers running the Ingres relational database management system . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there are enormous dividends in being able to discuss functions independently of physical mechanisms and to explain relationships without being restricted to established and readily observable physical connections or separations . |
| 22 | Are frowning and haughty tyrants to be preferred to generous Lords ? |
| 23 | The GIV-SP supersedes the earlier model and features modifications to its wings , fuselage , tail surfaces and landing gear which have enabled ramp and maximum landing weights to be increased to 75,000 pounds and 66,000 pounds respectively . |
| 24 | For many farmers , especially in the more traditional areas , land ownership is an inherited trusteeship to be passed to future generations . |
| 25 | The PDI , which staged the largest rallies , managed to stretch the limits of official tolerance by attacking " nepotism " in high places , a reference to the business dealings of Suharto 's family [ see also below ] , and by calling for the presidential term to be limited to two years , an implicit criticism of Suharto 's years in power . |
| 26 | Number of overs per side to be increased to 50 . |
| 27 | Linda Townley , who 's fought a three-year battle with a national newspaper , made a plea for legal aid to be extended to those with no money to sue for libel . |
| 28 | Further to Brian Porteous ' letter of 24 August 1990 I am pleased to be able to enclose the guidance notes and application forms produced by the Sports Council in respect of grant aid to be given to elected representatives on international sports bodies . |
| 29 | Merger accounting to be restricted to those business combinations where the use of acquisition accounting would not properly reflect the true nature of the combination . |
| 30 | In his first pleasure at being admitted to this inner circle of learning he had compared it to Dante 's Paradiso , in which the saints and patriarchs and virgins sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation , a huge rose , and also the leaves of a huge volume , once scattered through the universe , now gathered . |