Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps money could be offered to any man or woman who volunteers to be sterilised ? |
| 2 | For it is being questioned whether a symbol which would appear to be necessarily male can be said to be inclusive of all humanity . |
| 3 | Malignant disease , especially colonic neoplasia is rare in young subjects so investigations should be tailored to the patients age and the clinical setting . |
| 4 | On top of that there 's a data encryption facility so data can be saved to disk in encoded form . |
| 5 | There are no time limits so study can be matched to the available time you have . |
| 6 | Here , in ( ii ) , the utterance provides the clue : B has to go to Edinburgh ; thus if A and B are both far from Edinburgh ( and mutually know this ) , so that it will take the rest of the day to travel and do things there , then B is busy today ; sob is indirectly producing a reason why he or she ca n't easily come to see A , and in so doing can be understood to be refusing A's request . |
| 7 | Near the top of column three on page 79 the text read ‘ the net originating difference of £12,050 is taxed at 33% , and so £3,976 would be credited to the deferred tax account ( assuming a full tax charge ) ’ . |
| 8 | Does the system mark corrected text so that only corrections may be recalled to the screen ? |
| 9 | Funds are limited , so preference will be given to those working in less well-endowed institutions ; applications form those in UK universities will receive particular scrutiny . |
| 10 | Such changes are likely to have fundamental effects upon the way companies operate , and so consideration must be given to the impact of developments upon product-costing , cost control and investment appraisal — concepts already discussed as central to the corporate resource-allocation process . |
| 11 | Perhaps word could be got to him . |
| 12 | If only man could be made to … |
| 13 | Programmes for the four London areas will take place as follows ; — South West Thames — 9th September North West Thames — 25th September North East Thames — 2nd October South East Thames — Date to be fixed during September/early October All enquiries should be directed to Chris Catlin on 081 840 7879 . |
| 14 | A few patients remain very troubled and perhaps threse should be referred to a pain clinic for injection of local anaesthetic ( as there are published reports of its benefit ) or , rarely , to a surgeon for excision of the offending rib . |
| 15 | Thus Lucas can be seen to be estimating a regression for each country in which that country 's deviation of real output from its natural level is regressed on its own lagged value and Lucas 's measure of the unpredictable and therefore unanticipated component of aggregate demand . |
| 16 | Thus attention must be given to male motives for using contraception . |
| 17 | Thus difference should be attributed to other factors . |
| 18 | It seems inappropriate to refer to a man of his years as a father figure or , in the context of such a mundane matter as VAT , as inspirational , but both descriptions can be applied to Victor . |
| 19 | A follow up letter will be sent to the D.S.S. over this matter . |
| 20 | In economic theory the more nearly expenditure can be matched to individual preferences , the more efficient the outcome . |
| 21 | It pointed to a future in which the hitherto limiting relationship of water transport to the economy could be inverted : now waterways could be brought to favourable sites : " The controlled application of water to industrial and commercial purposes was indeed the basic and most potent technology in Britain 's early economic advancement . " |
| 22 | The output of the a.m. tuner may be taken to the ‘ auxiliary ’ input of almost any hi-fi audio amplifier . |
| 23 | implement a strategy whereby support can be offered to the victims ' families ; and |
| 24 | Alternatively payment might be made to the head of the department concerned , or money might be spent not so much in buying the office itself as on the influence necessary for securing it . |
| 25 | It represents the only available medium whereby effect can be given to the instinctive need to control its progress that mankind seeks . |
| 26 | The British leaned towards a middle line whereby Japan would be tied to the West but not in such a way as to stimulate aggressive tendencies . |
| 27 | But even Rolls-Royce must be seen to be moving with the times . |
| 28 | From tomorrow trailers will be restricted to still pictures detailing only the name , price , publisher and availability of the magazine . |
| 29 | The occurrence of scrub and forest fires provides another mechanism whereby rocks can be subjected to significant thermal expansion and contraction . |
| 30 | But the standard approaches to decision making , such as cost-benefit analysis , can not help with these decisions , because we have no comprehensive theory about how values should be assigned to demographic changes . |