Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 2 | Similarly , a serious case brought before the magistrate had to be presented a second time before the justice of the peace . |
| 3 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 4 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 5 | I was asked if I wished my name to be withdrawn a second time but I declined , feeling it would be wrong to have to continue to rely on the goodwill and hospitality of friends in order to continue playing . |
| 6 | Saturday 's abandoned match at Morley will probably have to be played the next week , followed by the trip to Liverpool St Helens on the final Saturday of the season . |
| 7 | His brother was to be given a second chance . |
| 8 | In a clamp-down on crime , the Home Secretary has said that offenders cautioned by police should not expect to be given a second chance . |
| 9 | Payne , who three-putted the seventeenth was fortunate to be given a second chance by Gillner , who looked set to gain his first senior win when he required two par 4s at the seventeenth and eighteenth . |
| 10 | According to the report five officers had planned to use two military helicopters to bomb the headquarters during a joint meeting of government ministers and the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) to discuss the austerity measures to be announced the next day . |
| 11 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 12 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
| 13 | News of these defeats was received by telegram at Saint Cloud on the night of 4 — 5 August , to be followed the next day by news of two further defeats at the battles of Reichshoffen and Forbach . |
| 14 | On day three all the butterflies were dead as was one angel , to be followed the next day by the other . |
| 15 | Under this Standing Order , a Bill is taken to be read a first time if certain formalities are gone through . |
| 16 | Mr. Tony Favell , supported by Mr. David Harris , presented a Bill to remove from registers of common land and registers of town or village greens dwellinghouses registered under the Commons Registration Act 1965 which had been used as dwellinghouses for a minimum of twenty years immediately prior to the commencement of that Act ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 24 February and to be printed . |
| 17 | Mr. Tony Banks , supported by Mr. Tom Clarke , Ms. Diane Abbott and Mr. Jeremy Corbyn , presented a Bill to make statutory provision for fixed term parliaments , compulsory attendance at polling stations , a public holiday on days set for general elections ; and for connected purposes ; And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Thursday 9 April and to be printed . |
| 18 | A Bill for the more effectual preventing Clandestine Outlawries ; read the First time ; to be read a Second time . |
| 19 | Mr. Secretary Baker , supported by Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Newton , Mr. Secretary Brooke , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang and Mr. Peter Lloyd , presented a Bill to make provision about persons who claim asylum in the United Kingdom and to extend the provisions of the Immigration ( Carriers ' Liability ) Act 1987 to transit passengers : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 1 . ] |
| 20 | Mr. Secretary Wakeham , supported by Mr. Secretary Howard , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lilley , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. David Mellor , Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory and Mr. Colin Moynihan , presented a Bill to make provision for extending the duration of , and increasing the limit on , grants under section 3 of the Coal Industry Act 1987 and to repeal the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 2 . ] |
| 21 | Mr. Secretary Heseltine , supported by The Prime Minister , Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Newton , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. Michael Portillo and Mr. Robert Key , presented a Bill to provide for certain local authorities to levy and collect a new tax , to be called council tax ; to abolish community charges ; to make further provision with respect to local government finance ( including provision with respect to certain grants by local authorities ) ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 3 . ] |
| 22 | Mr. Secretary Hunt , supported by Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Lilley , Mr. David Mellor , Sir Wyn Roberts and Mr. Nicholas Bennett , presented under Standing Order No. 48 ( Procedure upon Bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue ) a Bill to increase the financial limit in section 18(3) of the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time and to be printed [ Bill 4 . ] |
| 23 | Mr. Secretary Lang , supported by Mr. Secretary Rifkind , Mr. Secretary Clarke , Mr. Michael Forsyth and Mr. Francis Maude , presented a Bill to make new provision about further and higher education in Scotland ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed . |
| 24 | Mr. Secretary Hunt , supported by Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. David Mellor , Sir Wyn Roberts and Mr. Nicholas Bennett , presented a Bill to provide for the construction by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation of a barrage across the mouth of Cardiff Bay with an outer harbour and of a tidal lagoon and for related works ; to make provision for the acquisition and use of land for the works ; to make provision about the operation and management of the barrage , the outer harbour , the water impounded by the barrage and the lagoon ; to make provision for dealing with property damage resulting from any alteration of groundwater levels which may occur in consequence of the construction of the barrage ; to enable other protective provisions to be made ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed . |
| 25 | Mr. Secretary Lilley , supported by the Prime Minister , Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr. Secretary Heseltine , Mr. Secretary Wakeham , Mr. Secretary Brooke , Mr. Secretary Hunt , Mr. Secretary Lang , Mr. John Redwood and Mr. Edward Leigh , presented a Bill to make provision with respect to standards of performance and service to customers in relation to the telecommunications , gas supply , electricity supply , water supply and sewerage service industries ; to make provision with respect to complaints by , and disputes with , customers in those industries ; to make provision with respect to the powers of the regulators of those industries and with respect to related matters ; to make provision with respect to the payment of deposits by customers of certain telecommunications operators ; to make further provision for facilitating effective competition in certain of those industries ; to make provision with respect to mergers of water or sewerage undertakers ; to make provision with respect to compliance orders against public gas suppliers ; and for connected purposes : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Monday next and to be printed . |
| 26 | Mr. Tony Benn presented a Bill to provide for the establishment of a Commonwealth of Europe ; and for purposes connected therewith : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 17 January and to be printed . |
| 27 | Mr. Conal Gregory , supported by Mr. Anthony Coombs , Mr. Simon Coombs , Mr. Douglas French , Mr. Archy Kirkwood , Sir Richard Luce , Mrs Marion Roe , Sir Gerard Vaughan , Mr. Alan Williams and Mr. Robert Wareing , presented a Bill to amend the law relating to cheques : And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 17 January and to be printed . |
| 28 | And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 7 February 1992 and to be printed . |
| 29 | And the same was read the First time ; and ordered to be read a Second time on Friday 7 February 1992 and to be printed . |
| 30 | Mrs. Alice Mahon accordingly presented a Bill to extend exemption from prescription charges , and to make further provision for , persons in receipt of certain categories of benefit ; to exempt from prescription charges the chronically ill and those over 60 ; and to exempt those over 60 from certain dental and optical charges : And the same was read the First time : and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 6 March and to be printed . |