Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want the park to be fun , ’ said Hayley . |
| 2 | and it allows the opportuni it affords the opportunity to be inclusive and I think that 's important . |
| 3 | They could claim that they never had the opportunity to be successful whereas those who filled the top jobs owed their position to their relatives , friends and the advantages of birth . |
| 4 | Students from all years in Industrial Technology have now had the opportunity to be involved in this kind of interactive evaluation . |
| 5 | The Parish Council would welcome the opportunity to be involved in the discussions on the future of the site . |
| 6 | It was early afternoon of the following day before Karelius found the opportunity to be alone with her . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 8 | Drawing on your reserve of quiet self-confidence , you may change this painful situation of total frustration into being an interested observer , leaving all you can , using the opportunity to be aware of people and their reactions to each other , using the practice material there in front of your nose and being content to wait until you have decided if you wish to participate and have considered how to create the opportunity . |
| 9 | Therefore , I regret Labour 's stated intention of abolishing all museums charges , because that would remove from museums the opportunity to be flexible about staying open later , to improve services and generally to meet the added requirements of the public . |
| 10 | Milk quotas which deny Britain the opportunity to be self-sufficient in milk and dairy products are also a hindrance , as are FEOGA grants which accelerate the progress towards overcapacity . |
| 11 | However , small libraries , ( or those who did n't send staff on many external courses ) , often looked first to the opportunity to be able to attend external courses rather than develop internal programmes . |
| 12 | Why does the hon. Gentleman think that he knows better than the people who are responsible for running the colleges who have welcomed the opportunity to be able to take decisions at local level ? |
| 13 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 14 | They give a chef the opportunity to be creative . ’ |
| 15 | Above all , we should not expect the ideology to be straightforward , for it is an ideology , which includes the word ‘ prejudice ’ and the associated value attached to the word . |
| 16 | A certain amount of welding to make good the outer shell has to be carried out and then of course we only need 218 small tubes and six large flue tubes to allow the boiler to be ready for hydraulic testing . |
| 17 | What is more , financial intermediaries may have the expertise to be able to assess just how risky a loan is . |
| 18 | he or she does not need to look ponderously at each piece on the board to be sure whether it as a pawn or a king . |
| 19 | We think we can operate by analogy with Art ( Reg ) 93 of Table A to the CA 1985 , which allows written resolutions of the board to be effective without a meeting . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) For the purposes of the discharge of its functions under this Act , every licensing board ( a ) shall hold a meeting in January , March , June and October of each year beginning on a date in each such month fixed by the licensing board at least eight weeks prior to the meeting ; ( ii ) may hold such other meetings as appear to the board to be appropriate . |
| 21 | Another and perhaps even more striking example of the undesirability of the practice can be found in the case of Woolwich Equitable Building Society v. IRC where the finance Act 1985 had included sections enabling the Inland Revenue to make regulations for the payment by building societies of tax on ‘ such sums as may be determined in accordance with regulations ’ and went on to provide that any such regulations might contain ‘ such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Board to be appropriate ’ . |
| 22 | ( 11 ) A member to whom a notice under this rule is given may appeal against that notice to the Appeal Tribunal in accordance with Chapter VIII of this Part and the notice shall state that that right exists and the time within which it may be exercised ; and — ( a ) a notice under paragraph ( 9 ) above shall state the reasons why it appears to the board to be desirable for the protection of investors for them to exercise their powers in the manner and in relation to the member in question ; and ( b ) a notice under paragraph ( 10 ) above shall state why the notice under paragraph ( 9 ) is being rescinded or varied . |
| 23 | Finn had designed it , when he had had the heart to be pastoral . |
| 24 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 25 | After the flight to France of James II , Ken took part in the Parliamentary Convention which considered the constitutional position ; he voted that William and Mary be declared Regents and against the Resolution declaring the throne to be vacant . |
| 26 | But earning a living or having the money to be able to continue studying is , I know , just one area of concern for your readers . |
| 27 | Pascal pointed out that ‘ sceptical arguments allow the positive to be positive . |
| 28 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |
| 29 | Your worship , I would anticipate that it normally takes at least three weeks for a printout for the computer to be able |
| 30 | Add all this together and you have a formidable coalition of parents — black , Hispanic , Asian as well as the mainly Catholic groups like the Italians and the Irish — who want schools to be orderly , their children to be safe , the teaching to be orthodox and to concentrate on reading , writing and arithmetic . |