Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 2 | Noting that rats tend naturally to be either left- or right-pawed in reaching for and picking up their food , he constrained them to reach for their food with the non-preferred paw and reported changes in RNA and protein synthesis in the region and side of the brain responsible for the motor coordination of the ‘ learning ’ paw compared with the ‘ non-learning ’ side . |
| 3 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , very little is known about Brough , Dorn , Willoughby and Bourton , and defences have yet to be proven for the latter pair . |
| 5 | On close inspection , several of the demonstrations of a dissociation between latent inhibition and habituation turn out to be of less theoretical significance than they first seemed . |
| 6 | While Bourdieu 's self-deprecatory claims to priesthood and orthodoxy turn out to be a cover for a very avant-garde sociology of culture . |
| 7 | Their viability and importance have yet to be established but may be a contributary factory to peritoneal recurrence . |
| 8 | If banks choose not to be tempted in this way then an appeal to their civic duty is misplaced . |
| 9 | Childhood is a time when full responsibility and citizenship have yet to be established . |
| 10 | All they have been offered , they feel , is a gesture toward an explanation — a menu of dishes whose aromas and flavours have yet to be tried . |
| 11 | Inputs of cereals and bottling and packaging turn out to be particularly important in employment terms . |
| 12 | Although there are important differences between the various theories , the great majority of researchers assert that ‘ aggression ’ ( however defined ; see below for a discussion on definitions ) is an integral part of human nature ; and that aggressive impulses and behaviour have somehow to be directed and controlled for human relations to be sustained over time in a social setting . |
| 13 | What attracts many scientists to this hypothesis is that those perturbations of the orbits of Neptune and Pluto have yet to be explained satisfactorily in any other way . |
| 14 | Potential differences in this respect between intermittent octreotide injection and CSOI have yet to be studied . |
| 15 | Despite the current employment situation in the UK , where some 280 BA-sponsored graduates from Oxford and Prestwick have yet to be employed as aircrew by the airline , Meehan is unequivocal in his optimism for the future . |
| 16 | The Safrane goes on sale in January and prices have still to be announced , but expect the RT to cost about £18,500 , the RXE £25,500 . |
| 17 | The final date and venues have yet to be set . |
| 18 | Dates and venues have yet to be decided . |
| 19 | As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen . |
| 20 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 21 | As you will appreciate , the best and possibly the only time to carry out such projects is the spring/ early summer period , partly because of the weather , partly because volunteers tend not to be available in the summer . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , just as ways have somehow to be found of taking on the sexually ( or racially ) abusive language heard in the classroom , so , surely , ways have to be found of taking on sexually ( or racially ) abusive language read out to pupils from class novels . |
| 23 | Which is why it always surprises me when people turn out to be such bad listeners . |
| 24 | The research will examine the ways in which Balinese society and culture are being reconstituted and tradition reworked as Balinese come increasingly to be defined by external agents as part of an ignorant Indonesian proletariat rather than as a viable and successful peasant society . |