Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 2 | If now the exchange rate policy instrument were to be made available for member countries to use more frequently and liberally , the anti-inflation properties of the EMS would be undermined and the gains achieved by member countries in the control of inflation would be dissipated . |
| 3 | Indeed , it has been kept so secret that no summary or abstract of the review is to be made available — If the Secretary of State wants to say that he will publish the review so that the House can measure the current proposals against his madcap scheme for dismembering the inspectorate , he should say so now . |
| 4 | Despite this the House of Lords found that the payment was excessive : the statute was to be read subject to an implied condition that the wages be reasonable , which was to be judged by the current rates payable in the industry . |
| 5 | But we are not told what features of the French peasantry are to be held responsible for Bonapartism , nor what features of Bonapartism are attributable to the French peasantry . |
| 6 | Perhaps a certain sensitivity on this question inspired his particularly detailed instructions to Orjonikidze on how the Georgians were to be treated ; the intelligentsia were to be offered particular concessions , and the Mensheviks to be invited to participate — ‘ avoid any mechanism copying the Russian pattern … bigger concessions to all the petty bourgeois elements ’ . |
| 7 | Every time your work is read , you die several deaths for every word , and poetry is like being flayed alive . |
| 8 | Specify a figure between 1 and 100 to signify when the media type is to be considered full ( 95% is a recommended figure ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where — ( a ) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person , an institution or any other body , either jointly or alone , under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention ; and ( b ) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised , either jointly or alone , or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention . |
| 10 | After a study of the extensive panorama , if a return is to be made direct to Ingleton , the route of ascent must be reversed exactly . |
| 11 | Intelligence was to be scrubbed free of the impurities of independent action . |
| 12 | The plan of campaign was to be kept simple and direct . |
| 13 | In recent talks with trade unions , Sir Colin said that catering costs were not fully competitive with those of outside contractors , and that the gap would have to be closed if the business were to be kept in-house . |
| 14 | Where a notice of expulsion or compulsory retirement is to be served pursuant to a unanimous vote the question will arise as to whether all the voting partners should be signatories . |
| 15 | The new body was to be called Western European Union ( WEU ) . |
| 16 | The bank undertook to arrange for the necessary documents to be drawn up and the manager gave instructions that both the husband and the wife were to be made aware of the nature and effect of the documents they would sign , and that the wife should be advised to take legal advice if she had any doubts about them . |
| 17 | A self-contained pool must have a sufficient volume of water in relation to its surface area if the water is to be kept clean . |
| 18 | Format in which the thesaurus is to be made available . |
| 19 | A strong pound has been seen as essential if inflation is to be kept low . |
| 20 | There was no point in transforming Paris and making it easy of access for visitors if there was nothing to see or do when one got there , and so the Court was to be made open as well as brilliant . |
| 21 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 22 | In the Poiso area are to be found wild ponies and , more rarely , small wild pigs . |
| 23 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 24 | Unless everyone who participates in a lengthy causal chain is to be held responsible , the interests theory needs a criterion of personal responsibility . |
| 25 | It needs to be stressed that British planning legislation does not assume that existing non-conforming uses must disappear if planning policy is to be made effective . |
| 26 | From a different position , independently arrived at and much less troubling , the animus was to be shared lifelong by Robert Graves . |
| 27 | Athelstan had always given strict instructions on this ; any poor man or woman found dead in his parish was to be given honourable burial , so this included Tosspot . |
| 28 | In this context , it means that the appropriate central planner must decree what total resources on a national or a local scale are to be made available , how much is to be allocated to each special service , and where units offering these services should be established , so as to maximize their effectiveness . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the legitimizing institutions together with established and indeed aspiring subject groups share the vested interest in the belief that ‘ a scholarly discipline ’ is needed if a school subject is to be granted high status . |
| 30 | Thereafter the total is to be held constant . |