Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them result from the need for text to be explicit in ways that speech need not be . |
| 2 | First , it is almost always concerned with the point or sale ; there is no reason for researchers to be concerned with the social value and longer term implications of products . |
| 3 | Apart from dealing with the matter of the will if one was made , it may be agreed , if your parent wishes , that he should also take on the responsibility for contacting various persons and organisations : the bank , to arrange for money to be available to her pending the settlement of her husband 's affairs ; her husband 's employer and Trade Union branch secretary , or the secretary of any professional association to which he belonged ; his insurance company ; the Department of Health and Social Security , to obtain forms for claiming the death grant and the widow 's pension ; the Inland Revenue , if her husband was still paying income tax ; the Building Society , the mortgagor ( or landlord if she and her husband lived in rented property ) and any other person or organisation concerned . |
| 4 | A more general equilibrium also requires the total demand for money to be equal to the total supply of money : this is referred to as equilibrium in the money market . |
| 5 | So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex . |
| 6 | The requirement was for vessels to operate habitually from a national port ( p. 222 , para. 28 ) and , hence , for vessels to be present at national ports with a certain frequency ( p. 224 , para. 40 ) . |
| 7 | A suitable compromise is for completion to be conditional on the results of an environmental audit . |
| 8 | Part of the emphasis is the need for BPX to be comfortable with risk-taking and risk-sharing . |
| 9 | This is by no means to be unrealistic about the difficulties facing our dialogue . |
| 10 | Having said that , it is a comparatively recent imposition for rents to be payable in advance as opposed to in arrear and many tenants would argue that some account should be taken of the fact that landlords have had their money , and therefore presumably interest on it , in advance . |
| 11 | Going out-of-door was , of course , the most favoured activity of Sherman and Austin and it was not unusual for Sherman to be excited about going outside . |
| 12 | It is not unusual for parents to be unaware of how you come to be there . |
| 13 | For c-Jun to be accessible to the DNA-PK , therefore , it must be dephosphorylated at Thr-231 and Ser-249 . |
| 14 | For bills to be eligible for forfeiting it must carry the guarantee of an internationally known and sound bank in the importer 's country . |
| 15 | So there are plenty of reasons to be unalarmed by the economic outlook for 1991 . |
| 16 | The case is one more illustration of the extreme technicality of the law relating to the sentencing of juveniles , and the need to simplify the provisions governing the relationship between two forms of detention which are likely at least in this type of case to be indistinguishable from each other in their implementation . |
| 17 | But there 's no room for anyone of course to be complacent about the growing er demand of the needs of children er a subject of such importance here . |
| 18 | Whatever may be its points of similarity to , or difference from , other countries ' villages as social institutions , it has very special qualities of picturesqueness , not of course to be confused with quaintness . |
| 19 | It takes a lot of patience to be friendly towards people who at first seem hostile and resentful . |
| 20 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 21 | Must an item be able to fulfil all four functions of money to be able to be classed as money ? |
| 22 | It is rare , today , for a substantial Act of Parliament to be comprehensive of the matters it deals with . |
| 23 | Currently under review , the regulations list six categories of industry to be subject to IPC , namely : fuel and power , metal , mineral , chemical , waste disposal and other industries . |
| 24 | The US pavilion is a dull rehash of a Barton Myers design used in a previous exposition and will need a super-human input of labour to be ready on time . |
| 25 | At some stage in her sleep of exhaustion she drifted close enough to the surface of consciousness to be aware of a deep voice exclaiming over her , of strong arms that lifted and carried her , but in no way could she fight her way up from the smothering blanket of physical and mental fatigue . |
| 26 | ‘ I would like the public to have a crusade against crime and change their attitude from being forgiving of crime to being considerate of the victim , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It could not be done by direct supervision because of the inability of management to be present at the face frequently enough . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 29 | The one who made most of this influence was Walpole , Prime Minister for 21 years and an effective wheeler-dealer who tended to go beyond mere cogency of argument in persuading the House of Commons to be compliant to his will . |
| 30 | This bizarre outcome results from the application of an ancient and technical rule of law which requires the maximum duration of a term of years to be ascertainable from the outset . |