Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] be [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catfish of several species do so and appear to be calling to one another as they move in murky water . |
| 2 | The E.coli rrnB and rrnD P 1 promoters for rRNAs appear to be adapted to high productivity by having a rapid promoter clearance , something that is probably related to the characteristic instability of their open complexes ( 10 ) . |
| 3 | The Local Government ( Access to Information ) Act 1985 requires the public and press to be admitted to all council committees and sub-committees unless specified business exempts items of the agenda from the provisions of the Act . |
| 4 | Where budgets no longer allow support to be given to all services that an authority wishes to procure , decisions will have to be made as to where any cuts will fall . |
| 5 | This is an important difference as physical abuse and neglect do seem to be associated with social , material and environmental stress and hence seem to be related to social class . |
| 6 | Words in category ( 2 ) seem to be confined to black speakers , though this remains at this stage an untested observation . |
| 7 | In the past , many tea companies have included other teas in the blend , but more and more now seem to be reverting to pure China tea for this popular flavoured brew . |
| 8 | Not because of some remarkable upturn in rural shoe-care standards , but because farmers seem to be going to agricultural shows less these days and doing less tyre-kicking when they get there . |
| 9 | Mr Oliver and his fellow rebel leaders were yesterday already planning a strong letter urging a yes vote to be sent to all MCC members , who include the Prime Minister and well-known celebrities like Gary Lineker , Harold Pinter and Tim Rice . |
| 10 | ‘ The facilities continue to be maintained to rigorous standards , ’ she said . |
| 11 | In the sluggishly expanding industrial labour market women have lost ground relative to men , and an important proportion of the women who must seek work because of inadequate earnings of the husband or because the family lacks a male breadwinner continue to be restricted to domestic service , street vending , and other marginal low-income occupations . |
| 12 | Although women are a primary focus of many psychological investigations of the family , for instance , they tend to be relegated to second place in biological explanations of the results . |
| 13 | Cats tend to be attracted to electrical appliances , but a sprinkling of shredded orange or lemon peel around appliances acts as a repellent . |
| 14 | Because of the original engineers ' appreciation of its intrinsic brittleness , cast-iron members tend to be stressed to lower levels than steelwork and the way they were incorporated into buildings usually allows them to expand in a fire without generating increased stresses . |
| 15 | Also , I believe most students prefer to be introduced to new ideas which they can explore for themselves with a sense of adventure , rather than be led on a Cook 's Tour with every fact and statistic recited . |
| 16 | We are now operating pilot schemes in five different places , allowing owners of empty property which we wish to be returned to productive use to let that property to homeless families , using a housing association as an intermediary or managing agent . |
| 17 | And because you have to be bursting with energy and health to do the top jobs , they have to be given to younger men . |
| 18 | Once documents have been scanned and indexed , they have to be saved to optical disk . |
| 19 | As Lord Upjohn said in Phipps v. Boardman , at p. 123 : ‘ Rules of equity have to be applied to such a great diversity of circumstances that they can be stated only in the most general terms and applied with particular attention to the exact circumstances of each case . ’ |
| 20 | Of course , our minds have to be sensitised to these patterns . |
| 21 | If price cuts have to be paid to all buyers this reduces their profitability as well as increasing their detectability . |
| 22 | I think this is the only way to teach these kids , but you have to be committed to this way of teaching to make it work . |
| 23 | Some limits have to be set to any project . |
| 24 | But , if equity shares or rights to them are to be issued in other circumstances , they first have to be offered to all equity shareholders in proportion to their holdings whether or not these were acquired as subscribers ' shares , bonus shares or pursuant to an employees ' share scheme . |
| 25 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 26 | They have to decide what problems they can deal with and which need to be referred to outside specialists . ’ |
| 27 | Of course there are a number of modifications that need to be made to this analyser before it is able to cope well with general text . |
| 28 | Erm , amendment that need to be made to this words housing waiting list , we in fact no longer have a standard housing waiting list but have a housing needs register erm that says a great deal about the system that we have is that it 's judged on people 's housing need and not on their income . |
| 29 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 30 | ( ii ) In the context of their own writing and that of a range of published writers , pupils should learn that , in evaluating the success of a piece of writing , different criteria need to be applied to different types ; for example , a personal letter may be valued for its warmth and humour , a report for the clarity of its organisation , and so on . |