Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saints fans have been honoured to have seen the likes of Tom Van Vollenhoven and Mal Meninga . |
| 2 | Pancreatic enzymes are given to help improve digestion — and a high-protein , high fat diet with added vitamins is needed to make up for poor absorption of nutrients . |
| 3 | This blockbuster may have been intended to rival Gone with the Wind but the result is sub-Dallas , sub-Dynasty . |
| 4 | It had been intended to provide turning facilities at the Robin Hood , but no suitable place could be found . |
| 5 | All these complications are extremely rare these days in the United Kingdom , and what few cases there are tend to have acquired their infection in the thirties or forties , before widespread use of antibiotics brought the possibility of permanent cure . |
| 6 | The tie of the white gown she had been given to wear caught in her hair and pulled it . |
| 7 | But for the moment , it is literally a case of meltdown at the rink , where instructions have been given to begin melting the ice . |
| 8 | I am honoured to have met you . ’ |
| 9 | Interestingly , chimpanzees have been taught to communicate using some basic signs from American Sign Language — a language of gesture and facial expression , both used naturally by chimps living in the wild . |
| 10 | The cultural framework in which we have been raised and within which we have been taught to operate provides both security and significance within its frontiers . |
| 11 | He has been struggling to find form all season , and maybe Terry Kingston would have been a better bet . |
| 12 | It is still possible to identify the location of the external belt wheel , as well as the courses of the head and tail races , although the Chelt at this point has been diverted to avoid flooding . |
| 13 | Fingerboards and necks are heated to aid drying before the assembled instrument receives its lacquer coatings . |
| 14 | A new association within Federchimica has been formed to try close this gap ; ACFIS ( Association for Fine and Speciality Chemicals ) intends to build an Italian fine chemical sector able to respond to requirements . |
| 15 | In particular , when the nature of the tasks that state agencies are intended to perform leads them to act with relative autonomy within the state , how is political control to be maintained without undermining the agencies ' freedom of action ? |
| 16 | This is the third in a series of SORPs which are intended to reduce accounting differences between banks . |
| 17 | Whether it achieves the aims which constitutions are intended to help achieve , is a matter of far greater moment . |
| 18 | Local people say they 're already swamped by visitors to Snowshill Manor , a sixteenth Century house , but the National Trust say their plans are designed to ease overcrowding in the village . |
| 19 | Whilst most commercial environments are designed to stimulate motivate , even excite the guest , the hotel is , in general , quite the reverse . |
| 20 | Many of these accidents simply need n't happen and Huggy 's Home Safety Tips are designed to help prevent them . |
| 21 | Two colourful and strictly unstuffy periodicals , Books for your children ( published three times a year ) and Books for keeps ( the magazine of the School Bookshop Association , published six times a year ) , are designed to help to keep parents up-to-date with new books and current opinions on older ones . |
| 22 | All of these efforts are designed to help develop stronger constituency education on communication issues . |
| 23 | General principles have been included to try to avert intolerant regimes being created . |
| 24 | HOSPITAL nurses fighting plans to make them wear ordinary clothes instead of uniform are to meet to consider taking action . |
| 25 | That is the first of three tasks he had been picked to do to pave the way for Italy 's first post-reform elections . |
| 26 | Moreover , business failures are expected to continue rising , especially among small firms . |
| 27 | Some of our business sectors , notably nitrogen and solvents , are expected to continue to perform well and will be operated to generate cash to help fund growth sectors elsewhere . |
| 28 | The CBI 's latest quarterly industrial trends survey shows that confidence is virtually non-existent , and that new orders are expected to continue falling . |
| 29 | The numbers are declining , and are expected to continue declining until 1992 , when they will begin to increase again ( DES , 1989c ) . |
| 30 | In the managers ' view , now is a good time to invest in European bonds as returns remain high , inflation is low , and the Bundesbank and other central banks are expected to continue to lower interest rates . |