Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 2 | The first thing to be said in relation to the merits of the appeal is that none of the parties to the appeal , all represented here today , opposes it . |
| 3 | But the statutory formula does not seek to value the benefit to the employee as such , but requires the quantum of the benefit to be fixed by reference to the cost to the employer in providing it . |
| 4 | Sequencing This concerns itself with the problem of the sequence in which the items in the block are to be taught in relation to their usefulness and difficulty . |
| 5 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
| 6 | Ministers would have to be prepared for legislation to be defeated , time and again , without feeling the need for the issue to be made one of confidence — on which the government would feel it necessary to force an election . |
| 7 | On the return journey , the Thornton Heath branch was covered and at Telford Avenue depôt , the party changed to another car and No. 1 had completed its last public journey in London , to be prepared for sale to Leeds . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 9 | Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 10 | In continuation of the policy of decentralization in progress over the past few years , Prime Minister Edith Cresson announced on Nov. 7 that the École Nationale d'Administration ( ENA ) , the elite civil service school , was to be transferred from Paris to Strasbourg by 2000 to strengthen links with Europe . |
| 11 | To specify modules which are part of a package and which are to be transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's account , the following relationships must be used : |
| 12 | To specify modules which are part of a package and which are to be transferred from LIFESPAN to the user 's account , the following relationships must be used : |
| 13 | French auctioneers say the contrast between British and French rates of VAT ( 5.5% sales tax on original works , books and certain signed pieces of furniture and 18.6% on the rest ) will cause art works to be drained towards London to the detriment of the Paris art market . |
| 14 | The ayatollah had to be flown by helicopter to his chosen head quarters-symbolically , a school in the poor part of South Teheran , far from the villas and the palaces of the northern sector , which had till now dominated the lives of the masses . |
| 15 | This order now provides for the full year 's 4.1 per cent increase to be applied from April to the October rates , even though they will have been in place for only six months . |
| 16 | It was clear that if the gravitational theory was to be applied in practice to planetary motion , the programme would need to develop from this idealized model to more realistic ones . |
| 17 | Now a man as I used to visit , older than me now , er the blacklegs used to be escorted with police to their homes like from this factory . |
| 18 | I refuse to sell refrigerated Brie , so when the regulations come into force that state food has to be refrigerated from manufacture to sale , it will disappear from my shop . |
| 19 | The board demolished a partly built house , without giving any opportunity to the builder to be heard in opposition to the demolition . |
| 20 | London Lighthouse 's grant is to be cut from £300,000 to £150,000 . |
| 21 | The reform programme was to be presented for approval to the party 's third congress , due in July 1990 . |
| 22 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |
| 23 | It is generally accepted that control systems have to be organized in parallel to the activities that they are intended to monitor . |
| 24 | Gassendi does not claim , of course , that it is any more than a hypothesis that the properties , changes , and actions of things are to be explained by reference to their atomic parts . |
| 25 | I would , therefore , suggest that consent is to be explained by reference to its purported normative consequences only . |
| 26 | This latter is a piece of independent evidence , which is distinct from the actions , such as masturbation or thumb-sucking or the hysterical symptoms of neurotics , which are to be explained by reference to the concept of sexual instincts . |
| 27 | Chapters 6 and 7 attempt to develop one which enables local situations to be studied in relation to wider concerns , and , to use ugly but accurate jargon , to ‘ theorise the conjuncture ’ . |
| 28 | OPPOSITE PAGE All archaeological sites have to be studied in relation to the surrounding landscape . |
| 29 | Most of those who have studied the twentieth-century constitution have ceased to see it as a living , moving thing that has to be studied historically , that has to be studied in relation to interests and political forces , and that has to be understood within the context of larger developments within society and economy . |
| 30 | Continuing demand in Edinburgh for water from the Union Canal made it necessary for the new aqueduct , which would eventually carry the canal over the bypass at Hermiston , to be constructed without interruption to the flow in the canal and the contractor elected to use an open channel diversion capable of passing 237 litres per second . |