Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower , but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place .
2 ‘ I do n't think he is going to be stepping back from the front line , ’ he said .
3 Instead , a full selection procedure was to be gone through during the lifetime of a Parliament , thus allowing other aspiring candidates to be considered .
4 Traditional patterns of family life and cultural values are said to be breaking down under the pressure of geographical and social mobility , and the power of the mass media .
5 There is jurisdiction for actions valued at less than £50,000 to be transferred up to the High Court under ss41(1) or 42(2) of the County Courts Act 1984 , although such transfers are likely to occur only in exceptional cases raising questions of general public interest .
6 Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion .
7 The critical questions have to be turned on to the discipline and relevant examples furnished from within the discipline .
8 Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness .
9 One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up .
10 The plan was that everyone would meet at the cottage on Boxing Day , making their own way there and hopefully bringing enormous amounts of expensive food and drink if they did n't want to be turned back at the gate .
11 If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one .
12 It is difficult to say that such a vast group of people has special needs , and indeed many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population .
13 His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be .
14 Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead .
15 These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose .
16 According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather .
17 There is a dispute among historians about whether the Napoleonic episode , with its creation of an Italian state by name , was a benefit or a hindrance to the Italian nationalism which had begun to be voiced along with the cries of Viva Verdi .
18 She did n't want to be escorted back to the apartment by him .
19 ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’
20 I did n't care to be squashed up in the shelter .
21 The war was over , I had a steady boyfriend who was n't likely to be shot down over the Ruhr , and I was working with a bunch of very congenial people .
22 Would-be clowns , acrobats , trapeze artists , ( and , for all I know , nutters who want to be shot out of the mouth of a cannon ) are all invited to join the greatest show in Darlington .
23 You can also ask for the patient 's meal to be cut up in the kitchen ready to eat , although this is something that can be done when you order the meal .
24 The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies .
25 As for the civil service , it had to be cut down to the lowest level necessary .
26 As the plaster dust settled , dazed guards emerged from the interior of the palace , only to be cut down by the machete-wielding cacos who had brought their knowledge of the palace to the rebels .
27 We are sending you Hurtard our serjeant , to cause oaks to be cut down in the said forest and carried to Winchester against Christmas , for our hearth .
28 The difficulties of constructing the road ( and even more so the railway ) are plain to see : much had to be cut out of the living rock , netted to arrest stonefalls , and at one point both pass through a tunnel .
29 But they 're going to be cut out from the two litre bottle range er if they 've got a bad back or these sort of situations .
30 While it was generally considered to be almost impossible to prove bribery charges against those in receipt of such payments — the success of such a charge would require specific evidence of mutual benefit — the sums received by individual politicians were large enough to have contravened the Political Funds Control Law which restricted the size of political donations and required those over 1,000,000 yen to be registered along with the donor 's name .
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