Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineering workers in most east German regions went back to work after being promised pay parity with west German workers by 1996 . |
| 2 | Tadeusz Stanski was elected chair of the Polish Independence Party ( PPN ) on March 7 in place of Romuald Szeremietiew who had resigned upon being appointed Deputy Defence Minister . |
| 3 | ’ The greater these benefits are the stronger the environmental objections would need to be to deny permission . ’ |
| 4 | The policy would then need to be made uniform throughout the whole country . |
| 5 | What the HMI appear to be taking issue with here in a particularly strongly value-laden way is something that other writers have variously called ‘ formal ’ , ‘ traditional ’ , ‘ product ’ , ‘ production ’ , ‘ transmission ’ , ‘ class-enquiry ’ , ‘ recitation ’ and ‘ discipline-based ’ teaching . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the focus of the chapter will be on verbal communication , since this is an area in which interesting and important developments appear to be taking place during the primary school years . |
| 7 | THE seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceausescu 's security forces moved to evict the Protestant pastor , Laszlo Tokes , who has long been a thorn in the side of the regime . |
| 8 | Some US research groups appear to be tackling part of this problem by tagging databases with error information . |
| 9 | On arriving at Dingle , he had expected to be given charge of a spoilt , overdressed menina who would spend the whole voyage in her cot with her maidservant running about in attendance , so he had been pleasantly surprised to find in Sara an odd mixture of childish enthusiasm and womanly grace . |
| 10 | Director Freddie Shepherd , meanwhile , has denied reports that he plans to sell his 7pc shareholding to chairman Sir John Hall and is expected to be appointed vice-chairman . |
| 11 | Joshua Nkomo , leader of ZAPU , now dissolved and merged with the ruling party , was reappointed one of three Senior Ministers in the President 's Office and was expected to be made vice-president along with Simon Muzenda under forthcoming legislation providing for the creation of two vice-presidencies with equal rank . |
| 12 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |
| 13 | He said he pretended to be carrying court documents . |
| 14 | However , they found no trace of Liam Shakespeare , whom the terrorists had claimed to be holding hostage . ’ |
| 15 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 16 | The way that sons always are , they way they always expect to be taken care of . |
| 17 | Sadly , the Macintosh is still slightly more expensive than an equivalent PC system — especially when it has to be made PC compatible by adding AppleTalk or extras like the PC disk drive . |
| 18 | I 'm also very worried , and this has been mentioned erm , by Mr , that the er , the Home Secretary seems to regard the police constabulary as a mere crime busting organisation , whereas really , the preventative work , the crime prevention , the work in the schools and the community work is absolutely vital if we are ever to solve , erm , we 're ever to stop , the er , if we 're ever able to stop the rise in crime , and this really has to be done hand in hand , I feel with local councils , and I 'm glad to say that there are some initiatives around , one of them in Mr 's own district , which is making erm , some very important steps towards that . |
| 19 | Still , Lazaroni has to be given credit for absorbing the pan-Europeanism of his squad into something the Europeans will need to be aware of in Italy . |
| 20 | Therefore , argue Trist et al. , the work group has to be given responsibility for the entire cycle of operations , and for handling the interdependence between those on different shifts . |
| 21 | If this were so we would not find the genuine uneasiness about an influx of strangers ( or outside influences ) that can not in any realistic sense threaten the members of the group as individuals , for instance , the insistence by sections of the US citizens that English — of all languages — has to be given protection against immigrant languages by the grant of an official monopoly of public use . |
| 22 | He argued that Dorset should continue to record unmet need as it had been doing in a pilot project , although the decision is so politically sensitive that it has to be given clearance by the politicians at their June committee meeting . |
| 23 | ‘ The issue has to be tackled head on . |
| 24 | This problem has to be tackled head on ; without it any other tinkering with the legislation is just a waste of time . ’ |
| 25 | Each of these students has to be taught neurology in a hospital department that has fewer than 100 beds . |
| 26 | Eventually , though , the program has to be tested in-circuit . |
| 27 | All that has to be taken care of in designing experiments to probe local reality . |
| 28 | The directive is simply another obstacle which has to be taken account of by broadcasting authorities when giving effect to their duty to preserve due impartiality . |
| 29 | ‘ With scaffolding , there has to be planning lead times , both for erecting and dismantling it , and subsequent restricted access to an area while it is in place . ’ |
| 30 | You want to be made love to . |