Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 2 | property uneconomical to repair and had to be demolished . |
| 3 | that well , maybe the officer , the local beat officer has got a problem estate that he has to pinpoint and has to be there , or an area where the crime is being committed to try and deal with |
| 4 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 5 | Investigators in 1897 in Lyons , in 1908 in Vienna , repeatedly showed that various bacteria failed to grow or appeared to be destroyed in the vicinity of Penicillium moulds , but the practical application of this fact was elusive . |
| 6 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 7 | For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " . |
| 8 | You do n't have to draw or paint to be able to do it . ’ |
| 9 | Specifically , the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 provided that an agreement by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute should not be a criminal conspiracy unless the act itself was punishable as a crime . |
| 10 | On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’ |
| 11 | It is fun to do and needs to be practised regularly . |
| 12 | The aircraft were ranged on the decks before dawn , but on ‘ Furious ’ the first Fulmar failed to start and had to be put below . |
| 13 | Perhaps the major problem in choosing critical texts to read and refer to is whether or not to use specialised student textbooks . |
| 14 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 15 | But in practice , the growth rate in earnings is extremely difficult to determine and has to be forecast . |
| 16 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 17 | Where , when just getting to one 's knees loomed as an unavoidable torture and to lie and wait to be rescued appeared to be merely common sense ? |
| 18 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 19 | It has been criticised for being difficult to learn and praised for being efficient once proficient . |
| 20 | Degree of transfer is not easy to measure and needs to be carefully defined . |
| 21 | Conflicts , over such matters as land use , are likely to arise and need to be faced squarely . |
| 22 | To pay for this , Galileo was made to kneel and admit to being vain and ambitious and to abjure the Copernican doctrine as being wrong . |
| 23 | This very selectivity of what the scientist chooses to notice and work upon is another reason for saying that science is to some extent subjective . |
| 24 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 25 | The problem is that information and events worth bringing to parent 's attention do n't always occur at regular fixed intervals so the newsletters may frequently have nothing to say and need to be supplemented by successions of ‘ flyers ’ announcing special events . |
| 26 | You , as beneficial owner , assign to Oxford University Press the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in respect of the product by the law in any part of the world , authorise Oxford University Press to make or cause to be made any alterations , adaptations and additions to the product , and waive your rights conferred by Chapter IV of Part I of the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 . |
| 27 | Similarly , if saving exceeded investment , interest rates would fall , causing investment to rise and saving to be reduced . |
| 28 | The diagnosis was easy to make and seems to be a safe one . |
| 29 | Unlike conference interpreters who usually have advance warning of their assignments , community interpreters have to be able to work without having time to prepare and have to be familiar with the specialised contexts . |