Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned . |
| 2 | One reason why she brought Michael Heseltine in as Secretary of State for Defence is said to be his ability as a public-relations man . |
| 3 | The tact that the effect survives a contextual change so readily encourages acknowledgement of the possibility that a non-associative process ( such as differentiation is presumed to be ) may be in part responsible for it . |
| 4 | By the second decade of the new century instrumental music in general had developed special properties rendering obsolescent the concept of composition ‘ da cantare et sonare per ogni instrumento ’ or ‘ apt both for viols and voices ’ , while at the same time concerted secular music for voices was beginning to be overtaken in popularity by the vocal solo or duet . |
| 5 | Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) . |
| 6 | The fact that Sir William Keith and a handful of others had surreptitiously managed to enter the town could by no means be claimed to be a relief and succour for the besieged . |
| 7 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 8 | The problem for IBM is going to be how to sell it . |
| 9 | The presence of moisture was found to be necessary to promote chemical weathering and weaken the rock sufficiently for disintegration to occur . |
| 10 | THE Beast of Exmoor is believed to be on the prowl again after a giant mystery cat terrified a family on a lonely road . |
| 11 | The average relative abundances of all skeletal elements for three species of owl were found to be as follows : great horned owl , 51.5 per cent ; barn owl , 62.7 per cent ; and screech owl , 46.5 per cent ( Dodson & Wexlar , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Suppose , however , that I simulate or even by coincidence pass through whatever sequence of states is taken to be sufficient for the conscious episode of feeling the prick of the needle . |
| 13 | The dismissal of Panizo was thought to be linked to expressions of anti-Japanese racism ( Fujimori himself being of Japanese descent ) and to rumours of a coup plot within the Navy . |
| 14 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 15 | The NMR structure of CsA/CyP was found to be very different from one of the proposed models of the complex , differing in the CsA orientation relative to CyP by about 90° . |
| 16 | You should then decide which area of parcel is going to be decorated with the pressed flowers and foliage . |
| 17 | These sorts of policies were bound to be self-defeating , as we indicated in Section 7.2.4 , since the volume of world trade contracted and therefore output and employment stagnated on an international scale . |
| 18 | 9.6Kbps local dial access of all its 520 points of presence is expected to be completed by June 1994 . |
| 19 | I know those offices in Northumberland Avenue — I have been involved in submitting evidence to two separate Royal Commissions there — and I do not believe this proposed tour of inspection is going to be a very joyous occasion . |
| 20 | The more distant the target completion date of the longest task or program , the heavier the weight of responsibility is felt to be . |
| 21 | 16–7- Duncan McGilvray , a Deacon , who had been seen publicly in a state of intoxication was ordered to be publicly rebuked . |
| 22 | They argue that segmentation at distinct levels of description is bound to be an errorful process given the highly parallel encoding of information in the acoustic waveform . |
| 23 | On coasts of coral atolls the effects of hurricanes are shown to be significant not only to the reef morphology but also to the organisms and the total environment ( Stoddart , 1962 ) and in drainage basins in general and along river channels in particular the impact of rare floods and the time necessary for recovery has been investigated . |
| 24 | The usual aim is to carve up a constituency in such a way that first-preferences will be spread evenly between candidates whose chances of election are judged to be good . |
| 25 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 26 | The fall of birds is meant to be seen as quite ridiculous and wholly supernatural in its proportions . |
| 27 | A pile of queries was waiting to be answered . |
| 28 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 29 | The presence of this second pair of cords is thought to be the secret behind the extraordinary purring mechanism that permits the animal to produce the soft , rumbling sound for minutes and even hours on end , without any effort and without opening the mouth . |
| 30 | It , it is a serious problem , I mean the area at the moment between east of Saltdean , erm Telscombe Cliffs , erm through to the east end of Peacehaven , is in the process of being protected by a seawall and an undercliff walk , rather like the area from erm Black Rock in Brighton through to Saltdean , because the rate of retreat of the cliffs there was so great erm that it would very shortly be threatening the houses on the clifftop at Peacehaven , so that erm a lot of money 's having to be spent to stop the erosion of the cliffs along that stretch . |