Example sentences of "to be [verb] [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases surfaces to be etched must be grease-free ( no fingerprints ! ) . |
| 2 | The LIFESPAN database to be accessed must be accessible ( refer Section 10.1 ) . |
| 3 | Some thirteen investigators from seven institutions have been brought together to examine various dimensions of the data set ; some of the areas to be covered will be public sector/ private sector relationships , manual skill differentials , sex differentials , white-collar pay movements , the dispersion of pay , pay in relation to hours worked , shift work and incentive pay , the role of national collective agreements , and pay according to region , age and size of plant . |
| 4 | Elementary justice or … the need for legal certainty demands that the rules by which the citizen is to be bound should be ascertainable by him ( or , more realistically , by a competent lawyer advising him ) by reference to identifiable sources that are publicly accessible . |
| 5 | One of the first clusters to be developed will be European studies . |
| 6 | If the respondent is a government body , such an undertaking will often not be required because any damage likely to be suffered will be intangible or unquantifiable injury to the public . |
| 7 | It is not to be confused with various autobiographies but those expecting warts to be exposed will be disappointed . |
| 8 | The better approach would have been for the company to insist that an express term was inserted into the contract to the effect that the computer to be acquired must be compatible with the existing equipment . |
| 9 | The Arrowana to be introduced will be young specimen of about three or four inches ( 7–10 cm ) , which are readily available now . |
| 10 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 11 | The measures to be taken could be pitiless indeed . |
| 12 | The information to be conveyed can be wrong , but not ambiguous . |
| 13 | An individual suspecting that an unwarranted invasion of privacy may about to be published would be able to approach the council 's director , who , when satisfied of this , ‘ should instantly contact the editor and put him on notice of the complaint . |