Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb mod] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the various negatives are put together , a case can begin to be made that sport is a destructive influence on American public life . |
| 2 | Ultimately , a decision may have to be defended on judgement and so , particularly where decisions or recommendations are finely balanced , the consideration should be documented and , if possible , corroborated . |
| 3 | If users have little experience of using videocassette recorders or tape-slide equipment , a decision may have to be made on whether to ignore sources such as videocassettes or tape-slide sets which may be relevant to the database or to include such materials but ensure that help and guidance are available when the equipment is needed . |
| 4 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 5 | Such a decision would need to be clearly defined in terms of a line dividing what was acceptable from what was not . |
| 6 | ‘ So a decision will have to be made next week . |
| 7 | A decision will have to be made in short order if a technology is to be in place by November or December when the Sparc and MIPS/Advanced RISC Computing implementations of the Destiny desktop operating system are due , a timetable suggested by Pieper . |
| 8 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 9 | Root Package Password If the above root package is password protected from the specified user , then a password may need to be specified for the LIFESPAN modules to be accessed , if the specified user is not in the same user branch as the module manager or a special link does NOT exist between the two . |
| 10 | For example measurement is possible in the presence of spreading , though a correction might have to be applied , but it is impossible in the flooded state . |
| 11 | Even so , lawyers think a cheque would have to be paid into an account with exactly the same name . |
| 12 | A computer would have to be given knowledge about human eating habits before it could interpret this . |
| 13 | Unless any cash payment is passing which is required by the husband for the purchase of another property , a contract would appear to be unnecessary and is certainly not required if the transaction is to be carried out following a court order ( whether by consent or otherwise ) as application can always be made to the court for the terms of the order to be carried out ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 14 | For example , in credit transfer a certificate may need to be supported by a portfolio of evidence , while in APL some certification may be produced to support the portfolio . |
| 15 | She continued , ‘ I would have thought that for a man in your position , required to make countless decisions every day , such a weakness would prove to be a considerable handicap . ’ |
| 16 | The optimal reproductive strategy for a male would appear to be mature as quickly as possible , so as to achieve as many matings as possible . |
| 17 | If the championship is still undecided , a plea will have to be made to the Football League for another match for TV . |
| 18 | Thus , advertising programmes for a Brand would have to be agreed not only by the Product Group Manager , but also by the Advertising Manager . |
| 19 | A change will need to be made for the next meeting as Myrtle is still not able to teach . |
| 20 | Such a horse may appear to be a rather solitary animal , but if the other horses had been removed in his absence , he would have been upset and uninterested in eating . |
| 21 | A horse may have to be destroyed following a vicious attack , the second in the same area within a month . |
| 22 | He looked bewildered , but the whole afternoon must have seemed so unbelievable to him that hopping into a boat would seem to be all of a piece . |
| 23 | Although participating in a programme may seem to be involving , it is no more personal than simply viewing . |
| 24 | and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that . |
| 25 | This concept of homoeopathic drug action can be used to estimate how often , in theory at least , a remedy may have to be repeated — an aspect of homoeopathic prescribing which causes great difficulty and debate . |
| 26 | If that did not work , a coalition would have to be built . |
| 27 | However , the vocabulary for such a review will need to be more subtle and precise , and much less polarized , than that which has dominated discussion of such matters in primary education for the last two decades or so ( Alexander 1984 , 1989 , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | And as long as this country persists in being the only one in Europe which does n't have a subsidised railway service , Barbara and everyone else with a car will continue to be put off going by rail . |
| 29 | Today very young children at a puppet show or a pantomime may have to be reassured that ‘ it is not real ’ . |
| 30 | A temporary storage depot would have to be established by 1995 and a second would have to be available around 2005 . |