Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This heavy construction , which has good sound-insulating properties , provided an economic solution to the problem posed by the need to insert new floors in spite of the fact that all the beams had to be manhandled into position because there was no access for mechanical handling . |
| 2 | The trucks themselves had to be manhandled down the steep rock-strewn defile and as the men were sweating away at this in the hot sun an Italian aircraft picked them up . |
| 3 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 4 | Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower , but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place . |
| 5 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 6 | Initally all the cargo had to be manhandled off . |
| 7 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 8 | Variations in joint commissioning practice between social services and health services will have to be piloted and monitored carefully . |
| 9 | The deer were not to be fenced out of enclosures in the forest with ‘ unreasonable hedges and ditches ’ , unless ‘ the greater part of the enclosure be sown with corn ’ . |
| 10 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 11 | She 'd intended the pleasure-bound figures by the lake to be stylized and realised that they looked sinister , as if an architect 's drawing was peopled by a sideshow of grotesques . |
| 12 | This would suggest that Business Studies , along with other subjects such as perhaps Sociology and History , perhaps have to be re-evaluated , compared to other subjects such as Maths and Physics and Chemistry . |
| 13 | Not Beethoven playing for everyday listening perhaps , but rather a fine wine , to be pondered over , and deliberated upon at length before its true quality most fully reveals itself . |
| 14 | The book evidently proved a pleasure rather than a duty , part of the pleasure being political ; and there is an added spice to his enjoyment of Orwell 's anti-Stalinist fable that needs to be pondered . |
| 15 | They were also closely linked , for provoking or allowing the return of Republican " chaos " and , therefore , the disintegration of the nation , was the ultimate , awful responsibility to be pondered by putative dissenters in the Francoist camp . |
| 16 | It is in the nature of the law , however , to be couched in abstract terms . |
| 17 | Accepting that politically it would be unrealistic to expect the National Curriculum to be couched in other than conventional terms , ie subjects , I questioned the absence of a rationale . |
| 18 | Although we acknowledge that the National Curriculum is presented in a conservative context , and probably has to be couched in conventional terms , we are conscious of its lack of a ‘ qualitative thrust ’ , its inability to cater for all we want to offer all our students . |
| 19 | Dunleavy also notes the similarity of much local authority service provision in the 1950s and 1960s , and argues persuasively for an explanation of such uniform local political activity to be couched in non-local terms . |
| 20 | Tory Cathedral ward representatives Jim Melville and John Candler called for the objection to be couched in the strongest terms . |
| 21 | The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms . |
| 22 | Sorry you are going to be burdened , but there it is . |
| 23 | People will then not have to be burdened with the labels of friction and division . |
| 24 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 25 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 26 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 27 | Tomonori Tsurumaki , Japanese industrialist who bought Picasso 's ‘ Les Noces de Pierette ’ for £33.1 million ( $51.6 million ) at auction in Paris in 1989 , is rumoured to be burdened with heavy debts . |
| 28 | Of course Harry would not want to be burdened with her , even if he could afford to start up his stud at Maythorpe House . |
| 29 | For he was going to be burdened always with the conviction that it could have been avoided . |
| 30 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |