Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a small disturbance early yesterday , it emerges , at the famous entrance which is soon to be closed by Mrs Thatcher 's ornamental security gates . |
| 2 | Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court . |
| 3 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 5 | He is an expert in Package Dyeing ; a method which is soon to be introduced to the dyehouse as part of the new expansion scheme . |
| 6 | The new surgery was built though , inside a former psychiatric hospital , which is soon to be closed altogether . |
| 7 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
| 8 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 9 | Those who have been waiting for the newly published syllabus for Part 2 , which is also to be run at Greenhill starting in the Autumn on Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm , should contact the tutor , Sybil Kenton . |
| 10 | The controversial duo , last seen performing with Extreme Noise Terror at the BPI awards in February , offered the following statement to NME : ‘ Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond left for Mexico City on May 5 to research a non-music project , the nature of which is yet to be disclosed . ’ |
| 11 | A beautiful Cirrhilabrus from Fiji which is yet to be named , but had been dubbed the ‘ Shimmering Parrot Wrasse ’ . |
| 12 | The card , which is yet to be named , will be launched later this year . |
| 13 | It will then switch to a new design , which is yet to be decided . |
| 14 | There has been an historical reluctance on the part of the police to enforce the section , which is perhaps to be regretted . |
| 15 | Most of the companies in the top 10 are small and fast-growing , which is only to be expected — after all , it would be extraordinary for ICI to double its earnings . |
| 16 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 17 | On the industry budget , regional selective assistance , which is led by demand on the part of applicants for assistance , is expected to be down next year , which is only to be expected in the present economic circumstances . |
| 18 | Shortly before I visited Lindow Moss , Britain had just wasted £100 million in futile repairs to a submarine which is now to be scrapped . |
| 19 | The frequency with which references to rural housing have already been made in this chapter reflects the extent to which the housing market acts as an intermediary between the economic changes in agriculture , described earlier in this book , and the kind of social life which is now to be found in the English countryside . |
| 20 | I note in passing , however , that , when it comes to squandering the nation 's money , I can not think of a better example than the enormous amounts squandered by the Government in setting up the machinery for the administration of the poll tax , which is now to be totally unwound . |
| 21 | She is also to be reckoned with , I have no fears for her . ’ |
| 22 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But … who is there to be annoyed , and in what ways ? |
| 25 | ‘ Nor do we see any reason why a wife who is not separated from her husband , even a wife who is still to be regarded as cohabiting with her husband , should lack this protection of the criminal law . |
| 26 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 27 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 28 | The SDA itself is now to be dismantled and replaced by a series of local agencies . |
| 29 | Everything is then to be gained by their serious recognition as social processes ; moreover as social processes of a highly significant and valuable kind . |
| 30 | ‘ But everything is still to be done ! ’ |