Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late 1960s threw up extensive demands for public bodies to be more open and responsive to community groups and sectional interests ; the demand was for plan making to be a negotiable activity between interested parties , rather than a matter of technical decisions handed down from a monopoly elite in government . |
| 2 | And of course wanting to be back on ops . ’ |
| 3 | Of course learning to be guided by your instincts takes time . |
| 4 | In the midst of those terrifying complaint stories in Numbers is another chapter concerned with the offerings to be made once the people have occupied the Land , offerings which suggest a life of plenty waiting to be enjoyed there ( ch. |
| 5 | There 's an awful lot of money waiting to be claimed but making a mistake could be disastrous . ’ |
| 6 | Nor does the RUC consider these aspects of community policing to be scarce resources , thus there is no restriction on their deployment to those limited number of areas where there are particular problems , as often happens in Great Britain ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 10 ) . |
| 7 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 8 | First , prior analysis facilitates current analysis by reducing the amount of processing needing to be done in order to determine the literal meaning of a clause or sentence . |
| 9 | One does n't need a passport , which is great , but what are irksome are the checkpoints and the queues of traffic waiting to be processed . |
| 10 | But there seemed nothing wrong with the head of government appearing to be the challenger on the hustings . |
| 11 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |
| 12 | After this pretreatment , the sample is converted to a form suitable for the particular method of radiocarbon dating to be used . |
| 13 | I recognise that at present this advice is given in confidence but , like Glidewell L.J. , I would foresee little difficulty in the Secretary of State asking to be released from that confidence in pending cases . |
| 14 | Hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of property waiting to be claimed by its owners . |
| 15 | To allow the advantages of fund holding to be enjoyed by more patients and doctors , I am pleased to announce that we are lowering the list size eligibility criterion from 9,000 patients to 7,000 patients for practices entering the scheme from April 1993 . |
| 16 | On the CDC 6600 computer ( which uses a 60-bit word ) instructions may be 15 or 30 bits long , according to the amount of information needing to be specified by the instruction . |
| 17 | This approach has been extended into the ‘ tick rate hypothesis ’ ( Humphreys & Revelle , 1984 ; Revelle , 1989 ) which considers the rate of information sampling to be the important underlying factor . |
| 18 | There were some cottage industries which came to take up part of the " space " left by factory spinning , such as straw-hat making and lace making , but they were more localised and tended even by the standards of hand spinning to be low-paid . |
| 19 | The other exception is that , under RSC Ord 22 , r7(2) , any party may bring the attention of the court to the fact that a payment in has or has not been made and the date ( but not the amount ) of such payment where the question of the costs of the issue of liability falls to be decided , that issue having been tried and an issue of question of quantum remaining to be tried separately . |
| 20 | When is the farce of the introduced terms of school leaving to be reviewed so that those young people on the borderline of the system can benefit from their right to leave school at 16 years of age ? |
| 21 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 22 | The accident has led to new calls for motorway driving to be included in the driving test . |
| 23 | With violence appearing to be on the wane at the moment , he may well be right that the future looks bright . |
| 24 | There is thus no ground-swell of demand for traffic calming to be applied to those places that would benefit most , existing residential areas where accident rates are higher than in new estates . |
| 25 | Martin Braine found that if children between five and six years of age are shown a standard visual illusion — such as a stick in water appearing to be broken , by light refraction — they will distinguish correctly between ‘ looks ? ’ and ‘ really ? ’ questions , but that if they are asked the neutral question ‘ Is the stick straight or broken ? ’ they will say that it is broken . |
| 26 | Dzos stood patiently in line waiting to be unloaded , and moving forward in turn without orders . |
| 27 | Joshua Morris stood in line waiting to be searched for an offensive weapon . |
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| 29 | The scheme of the Section is that the income which the settlor by his disposition has diverted from himself and conferred on another shall be notionally restored to him while in fact continuing to be applied as he has directed . |
| 30 | It was in fact going to be a ‘ complex ’ process , since it would require ‘ permanent , steady and patient activity to delete from people 's minds the remains of the past , the obsolete conceptions , mentalities and customs , and to cultivate a new attitude towards work , life and society . ’ |