Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med .
2 In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context .
3 These could actually be used as two separate windings driving separate supply circuits , but it would be very unusual for a transformer to be used in this way .
4 This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with .
5 Since this was the first coronation to be televised to a nation , Ramsey was suddenly famous among the people of England ; all the more so because the vast head , baldness girt by flowing white locks , mobile expressive eyebrows , and waddling gait drew the attention of millions of viewers .
6 The riding families were broken up : many , like the Grahams , were transported to the Low Countries and Ireland , leaving their lands and stock to be appropriated by grateful Marcher lords .
7 A consistent basis for valuation is to be employed worldwide whereby all unrealised intercompany profit will be eliminated on consolidation and provision for slow-moving or obsolete stock to be made on the following basis ;
8 Valley markets are visited in the spring to buy stock to be fattened on lush summer pastures ( ‘ alps ’ — which give the range its name ) , and sold in autumn .
9 However , a simple router table , allowing stock to be passed over a static cutter , is a fairly essential next step after purchasing a router .
10 On 29 November the Security Council voted Resolution 678 , setting a departure deadline of 15 January and authorizing the use of ‘ all necessary means ’ for this result to be achieved in the UN 's name ‘ and to restore international peace and security in the area , .
11 If a vote is necessary , ballot papers will be sent out for you to return by 12th April for the result to be announced at the A.G.M.
12 This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC .
13 The mouse has a two-position switch that allows this rodent to be switched between its two personalities — Microsoft or Mouse Systems mode .
14 Alternative plans , however , allow an episode to be expanded to four periods or reduced to only one period where time or access to equipment is limited .
15 Level 3 — allows the calibration/reference card to be placed in position .
16 Following the success of the Flat meeting at Doncaster in July , the home of National Hunt racing hosts the first jumps card to be staged on a Sunday .
17 McCaw Cellular Communications Inc chairman Craig McCaw says talks are continuing with AT&T Co on an expected June signing of the deal for AT&T to acquire 33% of McCaw : he expects the deal to be completed by year-end 1993 at the latest ; issues still under discussion include how to resolve the future of the Cellular One marketing brand name , which McCaw shares with Southwestern Bell Corp ; McCaw will use AT&T 's name and it will have access to the skills of Bell Laboratories .
18 While there is still a great deal to be done in both these fields , there are few people who are unaware of the terms and what they mean .
19 There is clearly a great deal to be done in understanding the initiating steps in order to effect more marked changes in spoilation resistance .
20 From another point of view , it is an attempt to indicate to those who have to put language curricula into practice , at whatever level — ELT classrooms , lower school , sixth form , university — that there is a great deal to be gained by being prepared to leave the beaten track , as H V Morton did .
21 Staughton J. thought there was ‘ a good deal to be said for the argument of agency ’ .
22 There is in theory a good deal to be said for the submission of Professor Birks in his Introduction to the Law of Restitution ( 1985 ) , p. 295 , that a payer should be able to recover payments demanded ultra vires by a public authority on the sole ground that retention of such payment would infringe the principle of ‘ no taxation without Parliament ’ enshrined in the Bill of Rights .
23 However , there is a good deal to be said for joining a society whose background is strange to you , or with whose aims you are not familiar or not in sympathy .
24 It is submitted that there is a great deal to be said for Browne LJ 's view .
25 Even so , there is a great deal to be said against timetable motions .
26 There is a good deal to be added of methodological and theoretical importance to Kerswill 's comments on lexical variation , or variation which affects specific lexical items rather than entire phonological or grammatical classes .
27 There is a great deal to be learnt about committee work and the new councillor must expect to undergo a probationary period in some of the less important committees of the council .
28 There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums .
29 In addition , the project will enable a great deal to be learnt about the theoretical and practical issues on studying centrally-planned economies in the process of transition .
30 There is still a great deal to be learned about support , and there is no doubt that personal characteristics are also important .
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