Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 2 | The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand . |
| 3 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
| 4 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
| 5 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
| 6 | I became exceedingly religious and consequently anxious to know whether there was any good ground for supposing religion to be true . |
| 7 | Gandhi 's reply to these kind of questions would probably indicate that for him morality has to be related to what he conceives religion to be . |
| 8 | Thus , it is quite possible in Northern Ireland for an ethnic Catholic to be a non-believer , or conversely for an ( English ) outsider who is an adherent of the Catholic religion to be categorized as non-Catholic . |
| 9 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
| 10 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 11 | God is in no sense an idealised self-image to be possessed and manipulated . |
| 12 | The further development of current techniques for measuring protein synthesis , in vivo , will be required to allow the contribution of each cell type to the rate of protein synthesis in the whole biopsy to be determined . |
| 13 | There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med . |
| 14 | At Chilgrove 1 , the coin series ends with Magnentius , and Alec Down , the excavator , suggests an amalgamation with Chilgrove 2 which could represent the kind of reorganization to be expected . |
| 15 | And even if she had decided to use a delivery service , there would normally be a full check-list to be ticked off before parting with any money . |
| 16 | In the same way that one would expect the British Medical Association to be called upon to comment on any issue of human rights , we should come to expect the Library Association , along with other organizations such as Article 19 to be called to comment on any issue of censorship , and not just in the literary context . |
| 17 | The right for their tenants ' association to be officially recognised . |
| 18 | 200 walks organised by The Ramblers ' Association to be held all over England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 19 | The system also allows membership records of former students who have joined the Oxford Polytechnic Association to be maintained . |
| 20 | Some , certainly , are very good at it , but there is a clear tendency for much of their thinking to be rather superficial . |
| 21 | So the end of the Cold War is also the ‘ end of history ’ — no more stories to be told , no more thinking to be done , no more fundamental conflicts to be resolved . |
| 22 | If we acknowledge the importance of respecting the child 's own ways of thinking , we need to find ways for that thinking to be expressed so that it can be reflected on , and to know how far doing this can also help learning . |
| 23 | These could actually be used as two separate windings driving separate supply circuits , but it would be very unusual for a transformer to be used in this way . |
| 24 | It expects a non-Russian contractor to be commissioned soon to construct an international terminal at Domodeovo . |
| 25 | Day works should be bed as they provide no incentive for a contractor to be efficient because he or she is not responsible for the efficient use of resources , the profit is guaranteed and there may be a risk of double payment . |
| 26 | However , as the contractor is free to time the work within the contract period it wold be illogical for the contractor to be able to claim the cost and time effects of an influence which might have caused further delay but did not in fact do so ; and in the situation described it is likely that the first cause rules . |
| 27 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 28 | Because of cultural , family or personality factors many people may suppress their grief , but allowing grief to be expressed often reduces its intensity or duration . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 30 | The horse will misjudge situations , whether they be real or imagined dangers , and be too easily distracted and lacking in concentration to be reliable in competitive or pleasure riding . |