Example sentences of "but it [be] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are still some larger homes in existence and a small number of old premises used jointly with the health authorities but it is planned to close these eventually . |
| 2 | During this year purchasing will be confined to fundholding procedures , but it is planned to extend this to all secondary health care from 1 April next year . |
| 3 | The heading for this section looks like a play on words , but it is intended to point out the fact that , while development control is one of the instruments by which planning policies are implemented , there are also policies relating to the actual operation of the control . |
| 4 | The work will be carried out entirely with normal subjects , but it is intended to help in understanding why patients with cerebral injuries can show disorders of word recognition whilst object and face recognition remain apparently intact , disorders of object recognition whilst word and face recognition remain apparently intact , or disorders offace recognition whilst object and word recognition remain apparently intact . |
| 5 | But it is bound to stimulate the evolution of formal procedures for overcoming the obstacles met by investigators . |
| 6 | That will alter the average as well in a different way , but it is bound to alter the median . |
| 7 | It is hoped that it will be read by all who have an interest in the delivery of nursing care to patients but it is written to help those who manage nurses . |
| 8 | The exact boundaries of Barama 's concession are not yet known , but it is believed to contain groups of Warrau , Lokono , Karinya and Akawaio Indians . |
| 9 | BR electrical engineers searched the area for the suspect wire but it is believed to have melted under the force of the current . |
| 10 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 11 | We have not yet examined the implications of the structural or cost implications of this proposal in detail , but it is hoped to have preliminary drawings and outline cost estimates available prior to any Board Meeting called to discuss this issue . |
| 12 | It is not known exactly how this operated , but it is presumed to have been on some kind of contract basis . |
| 13 | Details of the ‘ highly sensitive ’ information have not been made public , but it is understood to have originated from intelligence and diplomatic sources and probably relates to plans by Marcos loyalists to capitalise on his return to the country . |
| 14 | Anti-terrorist detectives were unwilling to discuss the exact location and size of the haul but it is understood to have been found in a lock-up garage ‘ within a few miles ’ of Northolt , north-west London , where the arrests were made . |
| 15 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 16 | Of course this does n't mean that any woman found drinking it will turn to stone but it is designed to appeal to the real men of the nation . |
| 17 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 18 | No one has any idea how much the Wertheimer brothers who own Chanel pay Lagerfeld but it is estimated to run into millions . |
| 19 | The third area was not revealed , but it is thought to cover a Unix alternative for the Microsoft Corp Object Linking and Embedding and Dynamic Data Exchange technologies . |
| 20 | The third area was not revealed , but it is thought to cover a Unix alternative for the Microsoft object linking and embedding and dynamic data exhange technologies . |
| 21 | Mr Bronislaw Geremek , the leader of Solidarity 's parliamentary group , counters that ‘ Thatcherist policy is not a danger for Poland because it is unrealisable with our handicaps , but it is needed to budge the deadweight of the planned economy . ’ |
| 22 | Once expected by the end of last year , and the subject of technology demonstrations earlier this year , the exact scope of CICS/6000 is still not clear , but it is expected to include a number of technology elements from other vendors , including MicroFocus Cobol , parts of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) technology , and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing software , developed with IBM 's backing . |
| 23 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , as Paul Du Noyer noted in NME , it might not make a sausage of difference to your diet but it 's guaranteed to leave a feeling of guilt in your head as you tuck into that rump steak . |
| 25 | The old rate would still apply to essential imports , but it was planned to set in due course another new rate ( somewhere between the two ) for non-essential imports and possibly some types of export . |
| 26 | I solved the problem — vaporising petrol — shortly before I changed the car , but it was determined to go with a bang . |
| 27 | A proposal by the BAPU parliamentary group to repeal Paragraph 1 , defining Bulgaria as a " People 's Republic " and as " a socialist state of the working people from town and country , headed by a working class " , was rejected on procedural grounds after a heated debate , but it was decided to set up a working group of government and opposition representatives to examine this and other possible constitutional amendments , with a view to submitting proposals to a forthcoming National Assembly session . |
| 28 | Tests were carried out but it was decided to operate before the results of the tests were known . |
| 29 | The allied warship fired off warning shots across the Korean ship 's bows to make it stop , but it was cleared to continue it 's voyage . |
| 30 | Hardly earth-shattering stuff , but it was thought to have been a gaffe , and interviewers clock up politicians ' gaffes the way fur-traders hang up the tails of skunks . |