Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going to university had been what they wanted for him , a visible sign of achievement , and he had obliged , not having any strong objections . |
| 2 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 3 | No one could doubt that the application of the academic mind to literature has been salutary in bringing rigour and discipline into criticism : cleaner texts , scholarly annotations , precise analysis , intelligent — even transforming — interpretations and readings ; and an intolerance for woolly emotional responses , vague inflated recommendations , and subjective wallowings of all kinds . |
| 4 | Ease of access to money has been transformed recently with the introduction by building societies of cheque accounts . |
| 5 | In the USA the absence of a socialist party , the weakness and declining influence of the trade unions in electoral politics , and the enormous costs of political campaigning have meant that throughout the post-war period access to money has been a critical determinant of how politicians are selected ( Bretton , 1980 ; Drew , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | In the past few years , a number of former hospitals that were doomed to demolition have been successfully converted . |
| 7 | The question of where they were to camp had been a matter of debate during the 1930's , so it seems it is not only the horse trading which is being revived . |
| 8 | Michael Smith writes : Radical plans to privatise parts of the European railway system and help switch freight to rail has been proposed by the European Commission . |
| 9 | In this chapter two different approaches to assessment have been contrasted . |
| 10 | The new approach to assessment has been one of the most important changes in vocational education and training over the last ten years . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the experiments in which particular routes to chaos have been identified required very precise experimental techniques . |
| 12 | What I want you to practice doing is to try and get yourself saying over and over again regardless of how the other person tries to ask you questions to get you out of it , and then swap over . |
| 13 | A NEW scheme to help youngsters who find themselves under pressure and at risk of turning to crime has been welcomed by the Duke of Westminster . |
| 14 | Chronic exposure to aluminium has been linked to nerve damage , and an EC Directive sets a limit for the permissable amount in drinking water . |
| 15 | Direct participation by the state in the allocation of savings to industry has been important in both qualitative and quantitative senses . |
| 16 | Since 1945 the largest swing to Labour has been 3.1pc in 1964 . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the development of administrative networks has intensified and tactics from counselling to cajoling have been employed , as the efficacy of the legal procedures and their sanctions in the fight against truancy increasingly comes to be doubted in some quarters . |
| 18 | False claims to universality have been used to cover a persistent warping in our notions of what it is to be an individual . |
| 19 | Thus the companies ' approach to investment has been to ensure that there is sufficient availability of short-term assets to meet unforeseen contingencies and then to maximise holdings of long-dated , higher-yielding assets . |
| 20 | Antibody to DD9-E7 has been reported to have 100% sensitivity for adenocarcinomas of the exocrine pancreas . |
| 21 | The Councillor contended that the Committee had been overinfluenced by the need to make economies and had not given enough consideration to the local view , shown in letters and at a local meeting at which opposition to closure had been unanimous . |
| 22 | After losses to follow-up had been accounted for , 90% of patients were alive after 3 months , 75% after 12 months , and 62% after 24 months . |
| 23 | Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments . |
| 24 | Our group of women training to return to management have been finding out |
| 25 | Earth-science techniques applicable to archaeology have been successfully publicised during the year . |
| 26 | Since 1973 , an annual conference devoted to the applications of computing and mathematics to archaeology has been held at varying locations in Britain . |
| 27 | During the year under review , a range of earth-science techniques applicable to archaeology has been the subject of a continued publicity and marketing initiative , including attendance by BGS staff at conferences in this country and abroad , augmented by lectures , poster displays and publications . |
| 28 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 29 | Many other factors not directly related to cold have been involved . |
| 30 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |