Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] be [vb pp] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | All finalists will be introduced to an appropriate book-keeping system , enabling them to monitor and control their businesses in a professional manner . |
| 2 | The French and German Environment Ministers , Ségolène Royale and Klaus Töpfer respectively , have agreed that fuel consumption on cars made in their countries should be cut to an average of 55 miles per gallon by 2005 . |
| 3 | There will be a comedian , bar , free raffle , and another raffle from which the proceeds will be donated to an AIDS awareness charity . |
| 4 | Property ( other than a legal estate in land ) may be transferred , and binding promises may be made to an infant , but in general he is unable to make a binding disposition of his property or to make binding promises to others . |
| 5 | Normally , but not exclusively , applicants will be invited to an interview during the spring term . |
| 6 | In certain cases declarations and injunctions can also be sought under Order 53 ; and a claim for damages can be joined to an AJR if it arises out of a matter to which the AJR relates and provided the court is satisfied that the applicant has a case in private law for the award of damages . |
| 7 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 8 | Andersons 's insistence that the notion of social class must be defined in structural terms can be traced to an over-riding commitment to holism . |
| 9 | If the super-organism created by a colony of termites can be compared to an antelope , then the disciplined aggressive columns of the army ants must be reckoned to be the insect equivalent of a beast of prey . |
| 10 | Advance payments can be transferred to an advance reservation deposit by using the transfer debit and credit keys . |
| 11 | Pensions can be paid to an overseas address , if you are going abroad for three months or more . |
| 12 | Perhaps eight people of various ages will be invited to an agency and will sit around in a comfortable room simply responding to very informal promptings from the discussion leader . |
| 13 | In principle , platform numbers should be kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 14 | The formal school , its very formality often proclaimed through uniforms , school prefects and termly reports which show marks and grades , continues to co-exist alongside others which although having almost identical idea on content ( eg that young children should be led to an understanding of life in caves and Victorian towns and how to calculate the area in square metres of a field or a carpet ) adopt a radically different approach to achieve a seemingly identical end . |
| 15 | Pupils can be guided to an item ( see Figure 5.1 ) such as SHIPS which will retrieve one record with a task relating to that specific theme and to one or two sources of information . |
| 16 | The aggregate amount paid out under these schemes may be limited to an amount specified in the regulations . |
| 17 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 18 | THE DELIBERATE COLD-BLOODED KILLING OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO AN IMMEDIATE END . |
| 19 | Findings will be presented to an EC management committee which will produce any recommendations for action throughout the Community . |
| 20 | The word list has been created with an eye to current concerns so that students will be exposed to an up-to-date vocabulary that is relevant to them . |
| 21 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 22 | Administrative control of the airwaves should be transferred to an independent non-governmental organ . |
| 23 | Reports of baby deaths will be referred to an officer of the rank of inspector or above who will control and monitor police response . |
| 24 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |