Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the contact the need to be stroked is so strong that it suppresses their fear . |
| 2 | The Control of Pollution Act 1974 provides that where any damage is caused by poisonous , noxious or polluting waste which has been deposited on land , any person who deposited it or caused or knowingly permitted it to be deposited is civilly liable for the damage , provided that his act constituted an offence under section 3(3) or section 18(2) of the Act . |
| 3 | Determining the nature of the field to be covered is only the beginning . |
| 4 | If the area to be covered is too large to contemplate covering with damp sacks , then the regular spraying of the surface of the concrete with clean water , from a watering can fitted with a fine rose attachment will have the desired effect . |
| 5 | A thin cream called red bole is then painted over the gesso to provide a rich base on which to lay the leaf The area to be covered is then dampened with a very diluted solution of rabbit skin glue , before the gold leaf is carefully positioned and laid down . |
| 6 | We are here already in deep waters , for what needs to be decided is just what sort of existential claims can be significantly made . |
| 7 | The manner in which and the level at which revenue is to be raised is very much a matter of governmental policy as is the regulation of public expenditure generally . |
| 8 | The suggestion to be explored is rather that to think difference culturally rather than sexually might be both more illuminating and more liberating . |
| 9 | However it may be very effective in situations where the number of words likely to be written is severely restricted . |
| 10 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 11 | The place to be seen is again the street corner ( see Figure 2.8 ) . |
| 12 | now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from the case and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is marking the reference , if , what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , of course with the statute , er something which er it involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in er maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline from the law to show us a sufficiently strong case to justify the er , er , the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 13 | Now my Lord , your Lordship would of seen from , in fact the same case , and now from the continental television case , both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal , that where a reference is to be made the court that is making the reference , it what is sort to be done is either to challenge a British statute or in the case of er , er the red hot Dutch case , in fact the terms were caused in the statute er something which in involves a ministerial decision , but in either of those instances the court has got to decide in the interim whether or not the statute or measure should remain in force and there is the priority of public policy as indicated in er Lord er speech referred to both in the divisional court and in the court of appeal in continental television in maintaining the law in force and a , a bonus has to be faced by the person seeking discipline the law to show us the simply strong case to justify the er , er the suspension of the law in the interim . |
| 14 | The volume of information that would have to be absorbed is simply too great . |
| 15 | If you decide you want to charge interest make sure the rate to be charged is clearly stated on your delivery dockets , invoices , statements , terms and conditions of sale , and any other relevant documents . |
| 16 | The next question to be answered is exactly what details subjects were describing in the different conditions and whether certain specific types of information are related to risk , memory , or both . |
| 17 | For simplicity the amount to be costed is best highlighted in dark type or shown in a separate box on the form . |
| 18 | For someone who takes his belief that p to be justified is surely close to taking it that his belief tracks the truth of p . |
| 19 | Problems of taste can also arise on the selection of music backgrounds for scenes of domestic life because the mood to be reinforced is more personal and it is all too easy to lapse into embarrassing banality . |
| 20 | Disagreement over how the cuts are to be implemented is also expected . |
| 21 | That feral cats may arrive every Wednesday to be fed is obviously , she seems to think , evidence that they have a ‘ count of days ’ and anticipate hopefully what is to come : |
| 22 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 23 | What has still to be discovered is just how much garlic is necessary to confer protection against heart disease , and in what form is best taken . |
| 24 | message to be communicated is best conveyed using a variety of visual and aural techniques |
| 25 | As all three recombinant GGFs terminate in the ectodomain , the ability of recombinant GGF-II to be secreted is presumably mediated through the N-terminal hydrophobic stretch encoded by segment 1 . |
| 26 | At first sight what he seems to be saying is simply that no one is going to take any notice of the conclusions which a rational woman reaches after deliberation . |
| 27 | Determining what precisely is to be bought is also negotiable . |
| 28 | In other words , in visual word recognition , preceding context is not used to predict what word is coming next , but , rather , to see whether the latest word to be identified is semantically coherent with what has gone before . |
| 29 | Indeed , we fully recognize that the model about to be discussed is only suggestive of one avenue of development and is not conclusive . |
| 30 | Downing Street is a sure stepping-stone to becoming head of a department but the price that has to be paid is as exacting a life-style as can be found in Whitehall . |