Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By opposing new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 , the Minister seems to be trying to deny to the people who will be transferred to the new privatised subsidiaries the kind of benefits enjoyed by members of big schemes , such as the existing scheme . |
| 2 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 3 | The crossplank was then converted into a sliding rest which moved up and down and a central strut was included , to be positioned according to the size of the canvas . |
| 4 | The crossplank was then converted into a sliding rest which moved up and down and a central strut was included , to be positioned according to the size of the canvas . |
| 5 | Products or services may then have to be positioned according to these perceptions . |
| 6 | This should be particularly kept in mind when the patient to be treated belongs to the common people . " |
| 7 | Right this minute now cos it 's quarter to nine already , we need to be getting going to school considering we were n't going five minutes ago and now we are ! |
| 8 | In colonial courts evidence had to be presented according to set procedures ; otherwise it was declared invalid . |
| 9 | If the former matrimonial home was in the husband 's sole name , then in the event of his death the wife has to prove her interest in it , and the correspondence will have to be unearthed to prove to the capital taxes office that , although the house is in the husband 's sole name , his estate would not be beneficially entitled to the whole of the proceeds of sale . |
| 10 | And company cars are to be taxed according to price instead of engine size . |
| 11 | As a fully-masculinized professional field , the study of English increasingly came to be organized according to hierarchical administration , specialization , and approved modes of scholarship . |
| 12 | This file may need to be tailored to point to the appropriate remote Installation Directory . |
| 13 | Dick , thank you for those kind words , er , specially about er my book , and I think I am considering appointing you as my agent er , you also said er that I 'd dr drawn the short straw indeed you er whispered to me that I was the sacrificial lamb this morning well we 'll see about that but I do know that I have the great honour to be invited to speak to congress this morning on behalf of the G M B parliamentary group . |
| 14 | Namibia was to be invited to accede to the Lomé Convention which regulated relations between the European Communities ( EC ) and the 68 ( with Namibia ) developing countries of Africa , the Caribbean and the Pacific ( the ACP countries ) [ see p. 37210 ] . |
| 15 | Free places were to be replaced by special places : still open to competition , but with the added requirement that parents should nevertheless pay an approved fee , to be adjusted according to the means of the family . |
| 16 | The three remaining Sunni factions were said to be refusing to talk to Kabul . |
| 17 | Unlike the radiometer , this device enables a rough image of the subject to be constructed corresponding to a fixed illumination intensity . |
| 18 | Thus the schoolmasterish tone adopted by politicians who want the hive to be run according to their system . |
| 19 | Those who persistently complain that the media coverage is at worst treacherous , and at best ‘ an unwitting tool of Saddam Hussein 's propaganda machine ’ would be happy for civilian life to be run according to military rules . |
| 20 | The underlying values by which organizations are to be run have to be strongly set through a variety of management processes — in particular , through reinforcement by top management and the reward system . |
| 21 | Is there any obligation for an external audit to be carried out on the books and records of the organisation , or is this a matter to be decided according to an internally agreed constitution ? |
| 22 | Since each matrimonial property or custody dispute is to be decided according to judicial discretion the result is that litigation abounds . |
| 23 | These actions have therefore to be decided according to the law in force before the passing of the Act of 1976 — essentially the common law . |
| 24 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
| 25 | The main exception to the procedures for statutory and common law assignments is where the benefit to be assigned relates to a personal contract ( see above ) . |
| 26 | He wanted his prose to be objective , scientific , devoid of personal presence , devoid of opinions ; so he decided that poetry ought to be written according to the same principles . |
| 27 | The form includes a declaration to be completed according to whether a survivor of the buyers can or can not give a valid receipt for purchase monies . |
| 28 | Once he drew in his breath , as though startled to recognize his own half-known thoughts : and when the poem was ended he seemed to be struggling to come to himself . |
| 29 | So she was surprised , and vaguely annoyed , to see Sandra Bamfield picking her way cautiously over the large rocks that had to be scaled to get to the privacy of this particular beach . |
| 30 | The decision has to be made according to your circumstances , how healthy you are and what you feel is best for you and your partner . |