Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The riding families were broken up : many , like the Grahams , were transported to the Low Countries and Ireland , leaving their lands and stock to be appropriated by grateful Marcher lords . |
| 2 | Valley markets are visited in the spring to buy stock to be fattened on lush summer pastures ( ‘ alps ’ — which give the range its name ) , and sold in autumn . |
| 3 | There is a good deal to be added of methodological and theoretical importance to Kerswill 's comments on lexical variation , or variation which affects specific lexical items rather than entire phonological or grammatical classes . |
| 4 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 5 | To encourage our work force to be committed to environmental issues . |
| 6 | Smith looked to the discipline which he encountered in the Volunteer Force to be put to good use , while the programme of uniform , bands , drill , camps , recreation rooms , and religious instruction was intended to attract young adolescents so that their leisure time might be ‘ organized ’ . |
| 7 | It is not simply a general or universal awareness of God , though it gathers up and refines the more general consciousness to be found in other religions and at the very core of human existence as such . |
| 8 | The total spending will be around £6000 with about £2500 coming from the Village Association and Tennis Club to be offset by various grants from the sources which the Tennis Club has contacted . |
| 9 | The total spending will be around £6000 with about £2500 coming from the Village Association and Tennis Club to be offset by various grants from the sources which the Tennis Club has contacted . |
| 10 | Join them at Queen 's Pier in Central or the Aberdeen Marina Club to be transported by traditional Chinese junks to the nirvana of the South China Sea 's myriad peaceful islands , which form most of the colony . |
| 11 | Above , where hot lava erupted from the crust to be chilled by cold sea-water are purple , bulbous pillow lavas . |
| 12 | So far in this book we have emphasized the need for social research to be based on scientific method . |
| 13 | The objective is to make sure that the needs of individual students can be met by arranging for the research to be directed by experienced members of staff actively interested in the chosen topic who will be the supervisors . |
| 14 | This invariably shows some modest dip in earnings in the immediate future to be followed by continual improvement stretching to infinity . |
| 15 | A further general concern with the relaxed exclusionary rule in Pepper v. Hart is that , no doubt in an effort to limit the use of parliamentary material , it conflates questions of the admissibility of the material with questions of the weight to be given to admitted material . |
| 16 | We regret the delay and we hope that the promised publication on Waddilove will be earlier rather than later in the current session , and that the government will take an early opportunity to publish clearer guidelines on its assessment of ‘ national need ’ for opencast coal , and the weight to be given to environmental considerations . |
| 17 | Any material which is relevant and helpful may be considered , though the weight to be attached to different types of evidence will vary . |
| 18 | Contrary to some reports it does not automatically open the way for the social chapter to be drawn into British law . |
| 19 | This is a preliminary timetable resolution which requires the vote to be put on certain clauses at a certain time , irrespective of whether all the amendments to the clause or to previous clauses have been discussed . |
| 20 | In an interview to be shown on Central tonight , Neil Todd says he 'll find it hard to trust anybody again.The Church says he was offered help , but backed out . |
| 21 | As we would eventually like our practice to be run by qualified Russian staff , we are currently training groups of Russian students to become qualified accountants . |
| 22 | It allows traditional practice to be infected with transgressive ideals ’ . |
| 23 | I think there is a very real need for strategic guidance to be given by appropriate criteria being included in policy H two . |
| 24 | The first correct entry to be drawn at random will be notified by phone and the Guitarist carrier pigeon will do the rest . |
| 25 | BellSouth Corp 's BellSouth Telecommunications Inc filed a shelf registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission for up to $800m of debt securities , part of a $975m offering to be used for working capital , of which $175m was already registered . |
| 26 | Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 . |
| 27 | For many farmers , especially in the more traditional areas , land ownership is an inherited trusteeship to be passed to future generations . |
| 28 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
| 29 | An encouraging development is that the opportunity has been given for a submission to be made in early autumn on behalf of the preserved railway movement to the House of Commons Select Committee which will be dealing with the Government 's privatisation proposals . |
| 30 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |