Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] [be] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad had left slightly more money than expected , and that money was to be divided equally between Nathan , Georgia and Rona , Rona 's share to be held in trust until she attained the age of eighteen . |
| 2 | For Tyndall , science claimed the unrestricted right to search even on dangerous ground ; like Goethe he believed that science ought to be lively , and that commotion was to be preferred to stagnation , the torrent to the swamp . |
| 3 | He declared that McIan Macdonald 's late submission was invalid and that vengeance was to be taken against his clan . |
| 4 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 5 | A change of scene both from lakeside and historic town is to be had by leaving Schwyz on the road which ascends southward into the valley of the Muota ( the river which enters the lake just west of Brunnen ) . |
| 6 | The 1949 Act established four goals for the national parks : ( 1 ) the characteristic landscape beauty was to be strictly preserved ; ( 2 ) there was to be access and facilities for public open-air enjoyment ; ( 3 ) wildlife and buildings and places of architectural and historic interest were to be suitably protected ; and ( 4 ) established farming use was to be effectively maintained . |
| 7 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 8 | Fascism resulted from the frustration with , and alienation from , a system in which politicians were obsessed with the conventions of party politics to the detriment of the need for radical change ( highlighted by the First World War ) ; and radical change was vital if Britain 's accelerated economic and political decline was to be reversed . |
| 9 | If effective civil and political citizenship were to be enjoyed in Britain , then the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government and the extraordinarily clumsy device of having to appeal for the protection of his or her rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 10 | If these social and emotional needs are to be met , the old must have every facility for preserving their contacts with relatives and friends and possibilities for some compensatory relationships when deeper ties are ultimately broken . |
| 11 | It is , indeed , at this very point that the movement to advance the status of " English " in education must be situated if its particular history as a cultural and administrative form is to be understood . |
| 12 | " The Meeting considering that the number of useless Dogs in this Country are a great grievance , and that for many obvious reasons their number should be deminished. , and it being also represented that a number of Half Grayhounds very destructive to Hares are kept by Many This Meeting recommend to the Gentlemen of the different quarters of Islay to Intimate to the people of their neighbourhood that all useless and superflous Dogs are to be killed , and that the owner of any Dog found chasing Sheep or Lambs or running Hares shall be liable for the Damages , and the Meeting also recommend that no dog be seen at Church or other publick Meetings . " |
| 13 | Most of Gould 's collecting in Van Diemen 's Land , however , was done within 80 miles of Hobart , on or around the Derwent River and the fertile Macquairie Plains , where kingfishers , water crakes and crow-shrikes , golden plovers and white-fronted herons , bitterns and black-backed porphyrios were to be found in glorious profusion . |
| 14 | Agency and professional workers are to be found in this second category . |
| 15 | Hard work was to be accompanied by moral instruction and each convict was to be treated to a series of discussions with a qualified counsellor . |
| 16 | As agreed in December 1989 and June 1990 an intergovernmental conference on economic and monetary union was to be held on Dec. 13 , 1990 [ see pp. 37131 ; 37520 ] . |
| 17 | Of course , the apparent paradox vanishes once we realize that in advanced industrial economies superego controls on behaviour may not be optional if public order , production and economic surpluses are to be defended , and that if these controls can not be procured internally they will be externalized in the organs of the police state . |
| 18 | Obviously , evolution must continue to take place if artistic , technical , and economic progress is to be made . |
| 19 | Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run . |
| 20 | These principles , in order of priority , are , first , that each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for all and , secondly , that social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both ( a ) to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged and ( b ) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity . |
| 21 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 22 | Seven Hurricanes and eight pilots were to be sent , but at El Abqar , where refuelling took place , Plt.Off . |
| 23 | Thus if bit i is set to one , condition i is true and subroutine i is to be entered . |
| 24 | Shoes with thick soles and low heels are to be recommended for walking round the centre of Funchal . |
| 25 | All recruitment , except in schools , has been suspended and non-essential spending is to be shelved . |
| 26 | The current law on speaking and non-speaking decisions is to be found in the Court of Appeal 's judgment in Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 . |
| 27 | State expenditure would increase by 10.3 per cent in real terms , and spending on education , justice and public works was to be increased . |
| 28 | The Government 's motion on its press and public relations was to be moved by a District Councillor from Saffron Walden . |
| 29 | The financial history of voluntary and public hospitals is to be found in Abel-Smith , B. ( 1964 ) , The hospitals 1800–1948 , London : Heinemann . |
| 30 | The message to emerge from this conference was one of liberation , from both spiritual and material bondage , and this liberation was to be achieved by the participation in the whole life of the church , not just church services . |