Example sentences of "[det] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 25 ) If someone who has been instructed to construct a building is prepared to give the money to the town for it to do so itself , since the testator wished this to be done by that person himself , his plea will not be heard : so ruled the late emperor Marcus in a rescript . |
| 2 | Save this to be eaten at any time during the day ( in addition to your other meals ) when you begin to feel hungry and vulnerable to eating temptations . |
| 3 | So I support er the recommendation for the change in the er , Treasury Management Policy er statement , and I formally move this to be adopted by this Committee . |
| 4 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
| 5 | That Germany had also provided a comprehensive state insurance for sickness , accident , disability and unemployment for its people from an early date was thought by some to be implicated in that country 's economic success . |
| 6 | In all of Ayrshire at that time , there were very few hotels offering accommodation and every hotel bed available in Central Ayrshire was booked , some to be shared by several people . |
| 7 | Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears , but there is much to be said for that . |
| 8 | There is much to be said for such a theory . |
| 9 | There is much to be said for such increased participatory rights . |
| 10 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 11 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 12 | Now it is of course always possible to substitute ( x ) Fx for ( Ex ) Fx , replacing the existential quantifier , that is , with a universal quantifier plus negation , but there is nothing much to be gained by such a swap , for to paraphrase the proposition that something is human by saying that it is not the case that everything is non-human is merely to beg the question . |
| 13 | Given the chamber-like nature of the scoring , there is much to be gained from this . |
| 14 | I would defend the system by saying that it is not inadequate in that it certainly guarantees quality and safety in this country , but it leaves much to be desired in that it is diverse and scattered throughout hundreds of different local authorities . |
| 15 | There was just so much to be crammed into each short day . |
| 16 | In Tony Lumpkin 's judgement , good liquor is much to be preferred to all this . |
| 17 | He had learnt early on that it was better not to flounder ; a simple admittance of ignorance was much to be preferred to any amount of flannel . |
| 18 | More and more trainees will present themselves at centres with widely varying degrees of knowledge , skills and attitudes in different areas and will ask for these to be recognised in some way or other . |
| 19 | Yeah , I think you 're right , but I think you had certainly time there enabled those to be dealt with more effectively . |
| 20 | If there is more to be achieved in this forum , then I think my clients would like to fight for it because we we do believe that we would we do believe that logic and technical sense stands against the proposal that 's in the structure plan at the moment . |
| 21 | There 's more to be done on that than there is on that , really , cos . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm Mary , ’ she said , as if there were nothing more to be said about that . |
| 23 | There is more to be said of these conditional statements and their difference from others , and hence of the connection they state . |
| 24 | There was no more to be said on that subject . |
| 25 | Anxious to get news of this latest development back to their own offices and realising that there was unlikely to be any more to be gleaned from this unpleasant vigil , the remaining newspeople departed as the small convoy of police traffic vanished into the maw of the blizzard . |
| 26 | There is more to be added to this story , though not publicly , perhaps , not yet . ’ |
| 27 | A lot of men are distraught at not being able to give birth and there 's little to be done about that . |
| 28 | The recurrence of calculi after removal and the lack of substantial reduction in frequency of cholangitis indicates that there may be little to be gained in many of these patients by multiple manipulations of the biliary tree to achieve clearance . |
| 29 | There is little to be gained from this however . |
| 30 | As observed above , the quality of some of the buildings is also better than that to be observed in many small towns , in which mosaics in particular are rare . |