Example sentences of "or [noun] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourteen other former government officials arrested as a result of the coup and since detained without charge or trial continue to be held in al-Mizze Prison in Damascus . |
| 2 | Tasks or programmes need to be treated as ‘ temporary systems ’ — that is , operations with defined objectives , internal plans for action , linked to scales of time and resource , with built-in mechanisms for monitoring progress and evaluating results — a cardinal principle at every level . |
| 3 | Involuntary reception into care : if a child or young person is in a situation of acute danger the youth department is entitled to intervene , but parents or guardians have to be informed immediately and the case be brought before a court for a care decision before the end of the day following the admission ( s. 42 ) , Where force is necessary , the police department must act but under the professional guidance of the youth department . |
| 4 | If drawings or handwriting has to be reproduced then the stencil can be cut by a ‘ stylus ’ pen . |
| 5 | Today , service , seniority , and experience do not appear to be considered at all , your religion or creed appear to be an important factor in regulating your progress in the Service … ’ |
| 6 | This kind of mutual formulation of the right amount of information for communication to take place is very common in conversation , particularly where times or places or objects need to be specified . |
| 7 | But no mice , shrews or moles remained to be seen . |
| 8 | The jacket is rather short , so a jersey or fleece has to be put under the shoulder straps of the salopettes , not over , or it will stick out below the jacket and get wet . |
| 9 | Ultimately , if it is to count , the independent thought or action has to be offered or at least to be open to others for their evaluation . |
| 10 | Before making the offer it will be necessary to identify all the consents , clearances and notifications which will be required in relation to both the target company and the bidder : ( 1 ) If the takeover falls within the criteria for possible reference to a merger control authority ( eg under the FTA or the Merger Regulation ) then confidential guidance might be sought from , or pre-notification required to be made to , the relevant competent authority ( see Chapter 19 ) . |
| 11 | The young men who had grown to manhood in the past fourteen years had had no experience of war , and little of fighting , other than the kind that might break out between neighbours , or the kind they saw during their service at court , when a raid on coast or frontier had to be repelled , or the King 's justice enforced . |
| 12 | there were there were riveters deemed to be shell men , or riveters deemed to be er superstructure as you say , where they worked on cases etcetera . |
| 13 | Firstly , ambient air quality standards or goals need to be specified . |
| 14 | It should be borne in mind that despite the fact that psychiatric diseases such as depression or manic-depression tend to be vastly over-diagnosed , particularly in sufferers from alcoholism ( in whom these features may be indications of their primary disease of alcoholism ) , some patients do have both addictive disease and psychiatric disease and need appropriate treatment for both . |
| 15 | Current broader issues are examined and it is decided whether any action or research needs to be carried out . |
| 16 | Some hemiplegic patients are incontinent , either because they have poor sensation and can not feel when the bladder or bowel needs to be emptied , or because they do not pay attention and so forget to go to the toilet , or ask to be taken . |
| 17 | While mail order , trading checks and weekly credit callers or tallymen continue to be the forms of credit which most obviously meet the needs of those used to weekly budgeting , and to being paid weekly in cash , they are likely to continue to be the obvious choice for many such people — regardless of truth-in-lending regulations . |
| 18 | What it may be capable of doing in the living cell whether for good or ill remains to be discovered , ’ |
| 19 | Similarly , pets such as dogs , cats or budgerigars have to be provided for , if it is not practical for anyone to look after them while the patient can not . |
| 20 | This male shape or essence seemed to be wearing a white coat ( a medic 's stark white smock ) . |
| 21 | Conversely , deletions affecting the DCC locus on chromosome 18q and deletions in the region of the p53 gene on 16p are found preferentially in carcinomas and therefore seem to be involved in the later stages of large bowel tumourigenesis. p53 gene mutation or deletion seems to be an important and common event not only in colorectal carcinogenesis but also in many other human tumours . |
| 22 | This one can be made in almost the same way as the Diamond , except that the cross-spar or spreader has to be bent at the centre . |
| 23 | Dr Roger Nourish , head of the team of microbiologists within Britain 's Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) , which inspects factories , says that ‘ even in microbially low-risk processes , like the processes carried out so far — which do not involve infections or toxic hazards — allergenic risks arising from workers ’ exposure to foreign proteins or polypeptides have to be considered ’ . |
| 24 | If the cheese is cut , the paste must be restrained inside the crust — thank heavens for film wrap , before which glass or wood had to be used . |
| 25 | These can be any species but Cabomba or Myriophyllum seems to be preferred because of the small leaf structure . |
| 26 | Another helpful procedure would be to let children who are learning to read silently have some experience of reading aloud , to one another , passages of their own choosing , not ‘ from cold ’ , as a test of reading skill , but after they have become familiar with a text in general terms and have perhaps had a chance to look closely at syntax or vocabulary found to be perplexing . |
| 27 | So long as the Old Pretender remained at large an invasion of England or Scotland continued to be an ever-present possibility . |
| 28 | To observe 3-D fluctuation conductivity , large concentrations of impurities or defects have to be induced , and these are usually accompanied by granularity or reduced dimensionality . |
| 29 | When a child or young person is received into care a placement with a carer or carers has to be made . |
| 30 | The chair or commode has to be correctly positioned , for instance , and firmly secured to prevent it from slipping away as the patient is moved . |