Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 2 | For this weak semblance to be rendered strong , |
| 3 | Additional scientific equipment to be acquired included satellite locators , vibration-free benching , molecular equipment , video attachments for microscopes , water purification equipment , and systems for image archiving and processing . |
| 4 | An arrangement had been made in association with the World Bank for Scottish advice to be made available for primary education in Pakistan . |
| 5 | It would , I think , be appropriate for that detailed statement to be made available to the other parties well in advance of the hearing , to enable the claim and the detail of it to be considered . |
| 6 | adequate information to be made available about pupils ' actual achievements and personal potential . |
| 7 | However , not all attitudes expressed in value statements have the requisite stridency to be called moral . |
| 8 | Shorshan was the fourth Jewish settler to be shot dead by gunmen since the start of the Middle East peace talks in October 1991 . |
| 9 | Gabriel ignored Lucie 's obvious desire to be left alone , and took down the canvas bag from the nail behind the door . |
| 10 | The time for comfort had passed , the innocent desire to be held safe and sure within his arms was gone . |
| 11 | The Abortion Law Reform Association , founded in 1936 by seven women , of whom Dora Russell , Stella Browne and Frida Laski were particularly sympathetic to the labour movement , believed abortion to be safe , but called only for legal abortion to be made available on health grounds , using as their justification the way in which deaths due to abortion inflated the maternal mortality rate . |
| 12 | But there is a lot of useful co-operation to be done short of that . |
| 13 | On sales of bi-lingual editions or other adaptations : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated payable on the Publisher 's net receipts and in line with standard publishers ' rates . |
| 14 | On sales of bi-lingual editions or other adaptations : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated payable on the Publisher 's net receipts and in line with standard publishers ' rates . |
| 15 | Far from relieving the companies from burdens and expense it adds to them ; for those companies that take advantage of it will have to prepare two distinct sets of accounts and reports , the full version to circulate to their members and the expurgated version to be made available to the general public . |
| 16 | The office of seneschal or king-duke 's lieutenant in Aquitaine was therefore not a specialized one , although the tendency for men with legal training to be appointed increased as difficulties over the respective spheres of Capetian and Plantagenet jurisdiction in Aquitaine multiplied in the 1280s and early 1290s . |
| 17 | the sense of order ; 2. the phenomenon of play ; 3. the experience of hope ; 4. the concept of damnation — a sense of cosmic injustice to be put right ; 5. the fact of humour . |
| 18 | However some elderly people , by contrast , have an acute wish to be left alone to die in their own surroundings with the minimum of attention . |
| 19 | In other words , how is political control to be made effective ? |
| 20 | This application is not to be confused with an application to have a provisional grant to be declared final under subs . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) A licence under this Part of this Act may , in a case where it is proposed to construct or convert premises for a seamen 's canteen , be a provisional licence to be made final after the proposal has been carried out ; and Part II of the said Schedule 2 shall have effect as respects such licences . |
| 22 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |
| 23 | He is now undergoing specialised magnetic therapy treatment — normally used on horses — in a desperate battle to be passed fit for the sevens tour . |
| 24 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 25 | A simplified leaflet to be made available to the public will concentrate on procedures for making a complaint and the follow-up action which can be taken if the initial response is thought to be unsatisfactory . |
| 26 | For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances . |
| 27 | Only a few exceptional women were likely to take advantage of equal education opportunities , though on grounds of utility alone , Mill argued that it was important for this small pool of female talent to be permitted free choice of occupation so that it might contribute to human development . |
| 28 | But its real purpose is for the prospective auditor/adviser to be made aware of all the relevant facts before taking on the assignment . |
| 29 | In the case of agreed bids where the target co-operates , we have to have regard to the City Code rules requiring equivalent information to be made available to all genuine competing bidders . |
| 30 | I picture this character , a kind of hybrid between Lovejoy and Pop Larkin , scratching his head over a load of bulky junk to be shifted sharpish . |