Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing to be said about mistake is that it does not usually provide a defence , for liability in conversion is strict : |
| 2 | The first thing to be said in reply is a familiar Popperian theme : a clearly articulated hypothesis , which fails to match the facts in certain specifiable ways , can be a crucial stage in the development of a more satisfactory scientific understanding . |
| 3 | The most energetic waves likely to be observed on Earth are those due to stellar collapse in our Galaxy . |
| 4 | To have ideas like this one taken seriously and to be treated with respect is surely a reasonable request . |
| 5 | Some principles to be kept in mind are given , with arguments , in the section on Reading effectively , but here we can note the final results . |
| 6 | Two of the main factors that need to be kept in equilibrium are heat and cold and most illnesses and diseases are seen as the product of excessive heat or cold . |
| 7 | Whoever had taken the decision to commit the party to armed insurrection in 1930 , what was now to be called in question was whether the party had any right at all to make such decisions for itself . |
| 8 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 9 | Any document which is to be served by post is properly served If sent by ordinary prepaid post . |
| 10 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 11 | The reason why changes ought to be made in language is to bring it into line with the way things really are . |
| 12 | A bit early to be thinking about Christmas is n't it ? |
| 13 | Territoriality , dominance , and ritualized fighting all result in the fact , often noticed , that the amount of naked aggression to be seen in nature is less than the maximum possible . |
| 14 | Electricity Board engineers restored some power to the leisure complex this afternoon … but the effects of the weekend 's floods are likely to be felt for week 's to come . |
| 15 | To be irritated by criticism is to acknowledge it was deserved . |
| 16 | He said that the £8 million he was reported to be investing in City was ‘ purely conjecture ’ . |
| 17 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 18 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 19 | The two important , and possibly conflicting elements to be borne in mind are , who knows most about what the job involves and who is most skilled at the process of selection interviewing . |
| 20 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 21 | The definition of high standards and repetitive routines to be followed in housework is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ . |
| 22 | A unilateral right to require a dispute about the rent to be referred to arbitration is " an agreement to refer future disputes to arbitration " ( Arbitration Act 1950 , s27 ; Pitallis v Sherefettin [ 1986 ] QB 868 ) and the court has power to extend the time for service of a counternotice if undue hardship would otherwise result ( ibid ) . |
| 23 | Among the factors to be looked at will be their early careers , family background , educational achievement , attitudes to education , training , employment , unemployment , economic policies and political issues . |
| 24 | Next to a spectacular variegated honesty that has to be sown from seed are a rare Acanthus dioscoridis and a Helleborus abchasicus . |
| 25 | The first two ex-Corporation cars to be put into service were numbered 52 and 53 at first , but with the withdrawal of the three cars mentioned above , three ex-Corporation cars appeared numbered 17 , 21 and 47 . |
| 26 | That way , such banks can reassure shareholders of takeover targets that the shares they are likely to be offered in payment are backed by rock-solid assets . |
| 27 | The line to be held in place is pinched between the rings . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the first single to be released on Expo is ‘ Forfeit ’ by a band called Fuel — coming to a shop near you just about now . |
| 29 | The rules of the STV game decree that the only ballot papers needing to be considered for transfer are those that came along last , i.e. in the present case those that lifted Craig 's votes from below to above the quota . |
| 30 | Inpatient waiting times have long been the focus of attention , but for many patients waiting to be admitted to hospital is just the tip of a ‘ waiting iceberg . ’ |