Example sentences of "and a [noun] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 2 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 3 | During the turn-off , there is time for a reassessment of the height remaining relative to trees and buildings , and a decision has to be made either to continue turning to make a low circuit , or to turn back into wind after using up a little more height ( this is known as an S-turn ) . |
| 4 | Now it 's actually upon us and a decision has to be made … ’ |
| 5 | These controls over caravan sites operate in addition to the normal planning system ; thus both planning permission and a licence have to be obtained . |
| 6 | It was at this point , with Ferrari flushed with success , and as usual — like an Italian after a filling bowl of pasta — somnolent in regard to the future , that Montezemolo went back to Fiat and a successor had to be found . |
| 7 | Under section 250 it is treated as dormant ‘ during a period in which … there is no transaction which is required by section 221 to be entered in the company 's accounting records ; and a company ceases to be dormant on the occurrence of such a transaction . ’ |
| 8 | Following an accident in the 1938 race , however , the Mille Miglia was banned in Italy the following year and a race purporting to be the Mille Miglia was held between Tobruk and Tripoli in north Africa and won by Ercole Boratto ( Ita ) , a former chauffeur of Mussolini . |
| 9 | POLICE are appealing for shopkeepers to help them trace an axe and a sledgehammer thought to be the weapons used in the murder of Liverpool couple Jean Larkin and Garry Pettitt . |
| 10 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 11 | Detectives in Turkey have been questioning Mrs Hilali and a man said to be her adopted son . |
| 12 | Winch 's criticism of this way of looking at morality , as we have shown , is that it separates the person who acts from the world in which he acts , and a man has to be shown that it is worthwhile for him to act morally . |
| 13 | And a change seemed to be taking place inside Ruth ; she no longer felt stolid and sensible . |
| 14 | The same rule holds true when simple fillings no longer suffice and a tooth has to be crowned or a bridge has to be placed . |
| 15 | At least sixteen people were killed , according to official sources , and a curfew had to be introduced . |
| 16 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 17 | At night , indeed , it became quite chilly and a fire had to be built in the centre of the hall . |
| 18 | Early Minoan Phaistos , over one hectare in area , may have had a population of 300–450 , Early Minoan Mallia , with its area of 2.58 hectares , had a population of 700–1,000 , and Early Minoan Knossos was almost twice as big as Mallia , with a maximum extent of 4.84 hectares and a population estimated to be between 1,300 and 1,900 . |
| 19 | The need for a modern concept of citizenship is not the only need of the political system — others include accountability of the state and effectiveness in government and a balance has to be found between these three desiderata . |
| 20 | She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning , and a mind seems to be going to waste . |
| 21 | The local authority must ‘ have regard to the development plan and to any other material considerations ’ , and an order has to be confirmed by the secretary of state . |
| 22 | That was a case involving a death in prison and an inquest had to be held by reason of section 3(1) of the Coroners Act 1887 ( 50 & 51 Vict. c. 71 ) . |
| 23 | Before that could be arranged she took very poorly one day and an ambulance had to be sent for — luckily one of the nearby farms had a telephone . |
| 24 | It was unfortunate when calls coincided and an ambulance had to be summoned from Barnard Castle , Bishop Auckland or Darlington , but this was bound to happen occasionally . |
| 25 | No lectures could be held and an exam had to be moved . |