Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb -s] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this requirement was directly applicable only to federal agencies or projects requiring federal licences , in practice it has been extended to all major schemes of industrial expansion and new construction . |
| 2 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
| 3 | As he knows , as that matter is quasi-judicial , under planning law it has been left to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 4 | In Cornwall and the Midland Valley of Scotland it has been upgraded to a new digital standard , developed with Bergen University , which permits telephone access to sensors in these areas from anywhere in the United Kingdom or overseas . |
| 5 | During the last century or so the Lane 's territory has been stolen by Station Road and Hopetown Lane , although in manner of compensation it has been up-graded to a road . |
| 6 | With the help of defiant stances and some actual fighting , Jock establishes himself in public reputation as the kind of tough lad he enjoys being taken to be . |
| 7 | The range of textures , shapes and colours he achieves is attributed to his early career as an art director for an advertising agency . |
| 8 | A similar thing has happened to Ms , especially in Britain and Australia : instead of replacing Miss and Mrs it has been added to the system to make a further distinction , referring in many people 's usage to older unmarried women , divorcees and ‘ strident feminists ’ — in other words , to ‘ abnormal ’ and ‘ unfeminine ’ women who have not been able to get — or keep — a man . |
| 9 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 10 | Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox is leading the enquiry he 's been talking to Nigel Bell and telling him they 're convinced that the same girl has made all the phone calls . |
| 11 | In Cornwall it has been found to be unnecessary . |
| 12 | The phenomena it explains are given to us in experience ; they are not produced by us , their causes are not directly knowable , and we can only hypothesize , in the terms of our theoretical framework , about what they are . |
| 13 | Sometimes the term has been applied to the linguistic habits of a particular writer ( " the style of Dickens , of Proust " , etc ) ; at other times it has been applied to the way language is used in a particular genre , period , school of writing , or some combination of these : " epistolary style " , " early eighteenth-century style " , " euphuistic style " , " the style of Victorian novels " , etc . |
| 14 | And it 's being put to you that not being it 's been put to you straight , you 're in effect lying about guns , that you had a shotgun . |
| 15 | If the statement he makes is found to be true it will not be defamatory ( see Justification below ) . |
| 16 | Within Stoddards it has been renamed to a more focused ‘ Customers Demand Care ’ . |
| 17 | Each shape it sees is compared to a set of stylised representations of the alphabet , and the one with the greatest number of matching parts is chosen as its best guess at the letter the shape is supposed to be . |
| 18 | " She 'll part with one of those diamonds she 's been clinging to . " |