Example sentences of "[noun] to [Wh det] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During those years , the main influence of the police force on policy and security decisions was that , by its existence , it set bounds to what was practicable . |
| 2 | It burdens itself with the consequences of its own indifference to what is best . |
| 3 | The Wolfenden Committee , in distinguishing between public and private behaviour , also drew a distinction between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , and concluded that ‘ as a general proposition it will be universally accepted that the law is not concerned with private morals or ethical sanctions ’ , and further , ‘ it is not the duty of the law to concern itself with immorality as such … it should confine itself to those activities which offend against public order and decency and expose the ordinary citizen to what is offensive or injurious ’ . |
| 4 | When , as a buyer 's conveyancer , you receive the seller 's replies to your requisitions , you should go through these carefully , as in the case of your property information forms and local search , ticking each one the reply to which is satisfactory . |
| 5 | The motivational power , as well as the explanatory role , of religion has always had an important contribution to make to moral education ; 3. actively to fight prejudice and encourage an attitude of tolerance towards other people and openness to what is different from one 's own outlook . |
| 6 | But where provision is organised on the principle of selectivity , as in the health and personal welfare sectors , more complex assessment is required in order both to ration ( or target ) resources , and to link correctly an applicant to what is available . |
| 7 | The reason that knowing is different from guessing or dreaming is that knowledge implies an unspoken submission to what is real or thought to be real . |
| 8 | He is Frodo not in what he wants but in what he casts aside : arbitrary power , reverence to the collective principle , deference to what is foreign and all hints of artistic pretension . |
| 9 | They are provided by raising money from the public for a state-run charity , contributions to which are voluntary but which publishes guidelines for self-assessment for those who wish to use them . |
| 10 | However , Lewis Aaron , a director of stockbroker Barclays de Zoete Wedd , warned : ‘ It is essential that the investor pays attention to what is available to cover the notional interest being rolled up . |
| 11 | A positive benefit arising from such specific attention to what is best for visually handicapped pupils can be that there is increased attention to environmental factors that are advantageous to all the pupils in the school |
| 12 | It sees meaning as always fundamentally incomplete because dependent on a potentially infinite relationship to what is ditferent or absent ; completion of meaning is always thereby deferred . |
| 13 | It is , however , more than a commitment of our best efforts — it is a commitment to what is best for the object of that love . |
| 14 | Here 's our guide to what 's new in the undercover world . |
| 15 | What we regard as obvious is much too dependent on and relative to our education , our prejudices and our culture to be a reliable guide to what is reasonable . |
| 16 | A complex ion consists of a central atom to which are bonded atoms , ions or groups of atoms . |
| 17 | By linking rewards to what is observable , namely company performance , this tendency can be reduced . |
| 18 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 19 | Robert correctly answered the 10 questions , the answers to which were all to be found in the BNFL publication ‘ Our Environment ’ , and a cheque for £150 is on its way to him . |
| 20 | And the question that was put then was the question that Lincoln had no doubt about the answer to which was this is a , is this a permanent union or not ? |
| 21 | Religion has given structure to what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in our lives and even those who claim that they do not believe in God , abide by these rules . |
| 22 | The herring gulls are local resident birds , and great opportunists , able to change their feeding habits to whatever is available . |
| 23 | This assumed that women could afford to be economically dependent , which was rarely the case , and offered an individualist solution to what were complex environmental , social and economic problems . |