Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 2 | Whilst this section is confined in its application to acts expressly authorised to be done on behalf of a firm , the general law of agency will continue to attach liability to the firm for the unauthorised acts of its employees when those acts are within the course of their normal or apparent activities for the firm . |
| 3 | Indeed , the name " pupa " derives from a Latin word meaning a doll , for at this stage the insect within seems to be wrapped in swaddling clothes . |
| 4 | Two and a half million people are saddled with hire purchase agreements and mortgages they can no longer afford , and although fewer homes are being repossessed the debts eventually have to be paid . |
| 5 | When in position the confection obviously had to be protected from the effects of the sea water until the frogman had positioned the mine and was ready to ‘ an ’ it . |
| 6 | And , for a deal to be reached , not all creditors necessarily need to be involved . |
| 7 | The logarithmic technique is not normally used because it requires an extra search for every power-of-two increase in the number of records , while a higher-level index only needs to be built when an index has reached three or four tracks in size . |
| 8 | Flip over and you 'll find equally impressive tunes from Liberty City and Interceptor patiently waiting to be tried and tested , both estimable club-friendly giants sleepwalking through Deep House style lobbies and thoroughly warranting as much attention as ‘ Reach Me ’ . |
| 9 | The ward sister naturally needs to be consulted , and this can be discussed at a preliminary interview between the learner and the sister . |
| 10 | In either event , the employee will probably seek to argue that operational savings properly fall to be regarded as a benefit derived from the patent . |
| 11 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 12 | Other aspects necessarily need to be taken into account . |
| 13 | There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths . |
| 14 | Thirdly , I will conclude that the way we approach and use research perhaps needs to be rethought . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a timebomb just waiting to be ignited , ’ said a source . |
| 16 | Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political . |
| 17 | Marie desperately wanted to be told what to do but there was no one but herself to rely on . |
| 18 | That it has also close ties with comparative religion scarcely needs to be said . |
| 19 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 20 | Actions under the Act differ from those at common law in that the consumer does not have to prove fault , but causation still needs to be established and the burden of proof is on the consumer . |
| 21 | On the other hand the structural analysis of the language only tells part of the story ; the question how structural features contribute to the text 's overall effect still remains to be answered by the critic . |
| 22 | For the next four months the Prime Minister 's horse still has to be kept in Quarantine in Moscow and in London , Then finally John Majors will get the birthday present he never really wanted in the first place . |
| 23 | If crime and disorder follow a U-shape pattern of long-term change , the legitimacy of the police — the extent to which they are broadly accepted as valid in mission and methods — has followed an inverse path : an upside-down U. Starting from the widespread opposition encountered at the birth of the new police , opposition gradually came to be located primarily within the less ‘ respectable ’ sections of the working class , as well as in the wider working class during periods of labour conflict . |
| 24 | Although the £2.7 million deal still has to be formalised , the Blackburn manager said : ‘ We are delighted . |
| 25 | Quantitative explanatory variables usually need to be reduced to the ordered categorical scale when the outcome variable is not quantitative ; if natural cut-points are not apparent ( such as 5 year age intervals ) , then quantiles can be used . |
| 26 | The second and fourth acts end with massive , sectional ensemble finales in which varying numbers of characters appear and disappear , as in a farce , and create new crises ( to which solutions rapidly have to be found ) that contribute to the overall pace and tension of the drama . |
| 27 | Little was known about the products of many of these areas , and much research still needs to be done but Collecting Lustreware goes a long way to redressing the balance . |
| 28 | ‘ A great deal more needs to be done if fraud and irregularity are to be contained within tolerable limits , ’ it adds . |
| 29 | A cracking performance at the Lytham Trophy , where he finished fourth , could have heightened his chances , but a great deal more needs to be done before the side is chosen at the end of June . |
| 30 | A great deal more has to be learned in this area , but it will be evident that even in its genetic aspects ( and others also have an effect ) sex and gender are not an absolutely cut and dried business . |