Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the teacher is trying to do is to guide each pupil into developing a set of mental models which have been found by experience or experiment to be useful in understanding technical processes . |
| 2 | After the Second World War the coverage of the needs of the disabled became fairly comprehensive in scope , although there was no attempt to set up a single department or authority to be responsible for their needs . |
| 3 | Holden Caulfield , narrator of ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ , and Lucy Snowe , narrator of ‘ Villette ’ , both criticise their societies and acquaintances , and struggle to be true to their own principles despite pressure to conform , |
| 4 | A common desire and willingness to be subordinate to it is the essential pre-condition of a parliamentary state . |
| 5 | In such cases the draftsman should provide for the costs of periodic maintenance and inspection to be recoverable from the tenants , for they may not always fall within a provision to pay the cost of repairs . |
| 6 | Travellers would offer them bread and milk to be sure of a safe journey . |
| 7 | Sceptical about over-simple uses of the word ‘ evolution ’ , Eliot wishes reader and writer to be aware of the detailed work of philologists and anthropologists in relation to literature . |
| 8 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |
| 9 | For over a year David wrestled with a guilty conscience because of his adultery with Bathsheba and other crimes which followed and his anguish and desire to be right with God are recorded in Psalm 51 ‘ Have mercy upon me , O God … blot out my transgressions . ’ ( v. 1 ) ‘ Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin . ’ |
| 10 | I have always been waiting , all my life , for writing and story-telling to be transparent to me as well ; that moment has arrived … |
| 11 | The first stage is eliciting a general practitioner 's interest and commitment to being involved in purchasing . |
| 12 | In most disciplines it is not possible to say exactly when the discipline has achieved sufficient breadth and depth to be able to be considered as a subject in its own right . |
| 13 | Proven and probable reserves are the estimated quantities of crude oil , natural gas and natural gas liquids which geological , geophysical and engineering data demonstrate with a specified degree if certainty to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs and which are considered commercially producible . |
| 14 | However , there is no question that Wildlife Health centres are needed to improve our knowledge and ability to be effective in conserving and managing wildlife , and to improve its welfare . |
| 15 | He conjured before their minds a poetic word-picture of St Aidan coming from Iona in Scotland and settling there with his band of monks to pray and to spread Christianity among the heathen English ; and spoke of St Cuthbert to whom on that spot the people went to seek help and comfort and guidance , until he fled across the sands and sea to be alone with God on his island — so carry the lesson back , to a county black with people and with coal , carry back the need for quiet , and separation from whirl , and silence ; and so heaven will be nearer . |
| 16 | I want to pass all my exams , I want my mum and dad to be proud of me . |
| 17 | He was also involved with arranging the beacons and ordered wood and pitch to be available for the beacon watch . |
| 18 | They should also be sufficiently distant from the continental rise and slope to be safe from ‘ slumping ’ . |
| 19 | We shall see later that when one combines general relativity with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , it is possible for both space and time to be finite without any edges or boundaries . |