Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crossplank was then converted into a sliding rest which moved up and down and a central strut was included , to be positioned according to the size of the canvas . |
| 2 | The crossplank was then converted into a sliding rest which moved up and down and a central strut was included , to be positioned according to the size of the canvas . |
| 3 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 4 | In the autumn of 1870 " a Diamond Lamp with oil " was purchased and it was " to be kept burning for the first two nights after the receipt of papers and Mr John Slater was granted " the use of the Reading Room for one night in the week to have exercises in music . " |
| 5 | Free places were to be replaced by special places : still open to competition , but with the added requirement that parents should nevertheless pay an approved fee , to be adjusted according to the means of the family . |
| 6 | These actions have therefore to be decided according to the law in force before the passing of the Act of 1976 — essentially the common law . |
| 7 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
| 8 | It was the clubs which had to be dragged screaming into the national club competition , the All Ireland League , two seasons ago after dithering and delaying a decision for years . |
| 9 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 10 | Since the ECJ is clear in Katsikas that the Directive does not require the transfer to be made binding on the employee , it is difficult to see how the ultra vires argument can be resisted , unless the courts rescue the government by an extraordinary act of interpretation of Regulation 5 by holding that the UK Regulations , even in their present form , impose no obligation to transfer on the employee . |
| 11 | There was still money to be made arbitraging between the rial and the pula , the cedi and ( until Argentina and Britain signed the bilateral Puerto Stanley AUK accord ) the austral . |
| 12 | They just want to be seen calling at the house . ’ |
| 13 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 14 | After one terrible shelling early in the battle when human entrails were to be seen dangling in the branches of a tree and a ‘ torso , without head , without arms , without legs , stuck to the trunk of a tree , flattened and opened , ’ Dubrulle recalls ‘ how I implored God to put an end to these indignities . |
| 15 | Elton , soon to be seen starring in the BBC adaptation of his novel Stark , has lined up an even more punishing schedule with 36 gigs kicking off in Worthing on October 11 . |
| 16 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
| 17 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 18 | People likely to provide him with ammunition for his little campaigns would n't appreciate an audience any more than they 'd want to be seen tripping up the steps of the council offices to some bloody committee room . ’ |
| 19 | One explained : ‘ I have to be careful about what I say publicly because it is just not acceptable to be seen adding to the depression . ’ |
| 20 | In the story , Frank had to be seen shooting through the roof of the church moments later and holding on to a cross , before being rescued by a helicopter . |
| 21 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 22 | This component needs to be calculated according to the excitation scheme being used . |
| 23 | His defence was , therefore , that on the facts as he reasonably believed them to be , his use of force would not have been unlawful , and he was entitled to be acquitted according to the ordinary principles governing criminal liability . |
| 24 | Amaranth had no wish to be caught napping in the lounge of the Grand Hotel ; how much better to return to ‘ Mon Repos ’ and put her feet up for an hour or so . |
| 25 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 26 | I told her I needed to speak to Charlie , and was n't surprised to be left standing on the doorstep while she disappeared back into the house . |
| 27 | The appointment is also likely to involve assistance in servicing various academic boards or committees , and/or other administrative functions within the division , the precise details to be settled according to the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate ; |
| 28 | In the late 1260s and early 1270s he is to be found acting as the business agent of the west midland baron John de Verdun . |
| 29 | The last thing she needed was to be found trespassing in the Baron 's private grounds . |
| 30 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |