Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] [Wh det] be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There are procedures to be gone through which were the same as for Mrs Thatcher 's proposal |
| 2 | Innocent did not want the recognition of Frederick II to turn into a full-scale debate on the imperial title ( which Siegfried 's interruption threatened ) , though he was careful to allow Otto 's party to be heard in what was rapidly becoming a shouting-match between Otto 's supporters and Frederick 's representatives . |
| 3 | He can no more diminish the amount of income which he has power to enjoy by the amount of his expenses than any other taxpayer who chooses to expend his income , however prudently , can claim to be taxed on what is left after the expenditure . |
| 4 | The way to greater profitability , then , lay in the direction of bringing in better sorts of people and , to ensure that , a careful eye had to be kept on what was actually shown in the cinemas . |
| 5 | IBM 's Token Ring needs to be arranged in what 's called a star topology , with a central hub controlling things . |
| 6 | It allows a relationship between professionals to develop which is unlikely to be disrupted by what are seen as more ephemeral shifts within local electoral politics . |
| 7 | Similar information tends to be grouped together , whilst missing information tends to be completed from what is available , or from experience . |
| 8 | There is a further distinction to be made between what is socially admissible and what is acceptable ( see case study 2.3 ) . |
| 9 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 10 | The subject seems to be posed in what is basically a three-quarter view from the back , with the breast and the inner part of the thigh visible between the arm and leg , but the far leg and arm have been pulled around into the picture plane so that the spectator has the impression of seeing a simple back view , abnormally splayed out , as well . |
| 11 | Most would agree that there are no clear-cut answers and solutions have to be sought from what is available rather than from what is desirable . |
| 12 | Some thought has to be given to what is possible and it may be that time out can not be used . |
| 13 | consideration had to be given to what were convenient and acceptable quantities to offer customers , and to the cost of the packaging both the company and to the customers . |
| 14 | Such self-indulgence needs to be guarded against what is pleasurable for teachers is not necessarily beneficial to children . |
| 15 | As a result , the waste is in danger of continuing to be stored in what are widely regarded as inadequate facilities . |
| 16 | The analysis needs to be related to what is known about children 's learning and the curriculum experienced by the pupils . |
| 17 | The hind-quarters and thick tail of another Colchester animal are similarly dotted , as is a complete animal in an oak wood with a strangely-shaped snout , appearing to be tied to what is a bridle-bit and rein ( fig. 14.3 ) ; this very strange creature may represent a boar in captivity . |
| 18 | In part , this is because there is extra pleasure to be derived from what is , at times , forbidden . |
| 19 | Conservative Members do not like to be reminded of what is going wrong . |
| 20 | As the system is updated , nothing is lost for storage is so cheap that it is always more cost effective to slap a primitive TEI type header on each block of data and transfer it to the next store rather than sort out what is likely to be needed from what is not . |
| 21 | Certainly its trustee can claim the money , as of right , to be used for what is in the dog 's interest . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't wish to be associated with what is a political act [ the scheme ] . ’ |
| 23 | This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him . |
| 24 | Jackson quotes Freud 's view that something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ; this something is ‘ nothing new or alien , but something which is familiar and old — established in the mind and become alienated from it through the process of repression ’ ( p. 66 ) . |
| 25 | Too many allow themselves to be steered into what are seen as traditionally female jobs , or suffer discrimination if and when they have children . |