Example sentences of "[noun] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) . |
| 2 | Older women may hesitate to join in with the young , feeling that they may have to ape their manners to be accepted by them . |
| 3 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
| 4 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
| 5 | The power steering on your vehicles should allow the wheel to be turned easily by one hand . |
| 6 | But it has also led to assumptions which cause religion to be ignored , doubted and re-interpreted . |
| 7 | Thus , it is quite possible in Northern Ireland for an ethnic Catholic to be a non-believer , or conversely for an ( English ) outsider who is an adherent of the Catholic religion to be categorized as non-Catholic . |
| 8 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 9 | God is in no sense an idealised self-image to be possessed and manipulated . |
| 10 | It is essential to ensure that the risks to be covered by the insurance policy are sufficient to cover the main eventualities . |
| 11 | The tenant 's surveyor should be consulted to advise on the risks to be covered should any doubt exist . |
| 12 | However , such friendship only opens the door ; thereafter the hard reality of the benefits to be gained and the risks to be run will take over . |
| 13 | This will involve identifying the liabilities and risks to be assumed and the state of the assets being acquired . |
| 14 | The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts . |
| 15 | However , there are a number of risks to be considered by even the most competent pilot , and these are outside the pilot 's control once the cloud climb has been started . |
| 16 | One of the first Japanese arts to be recognised in the West was jiu jitsu , ‘ the art of flexibility ’ . |
| 17 | However , it must be pointed out that what he has consistently proposed does not require the arts to be subjected to ‘ scientific or quasi-scientific ’ forms of measurement . |
| 18 | The further development of current techniques for measuring protein synthesis , in vivo , will be required to allow the contribution of each cell type to the rate of protein synthesis in the whole biopsy to be determined . |
| 19 | Electronic News hears that DEC has decided on the name Alpha AXP for the VAX successors to be built around the new chip . |
| 20 | There was no means of tapping the slag , requiring the furnace to be broken after melting and then rebuilt ( Med . |
| 21 | However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier . |
| 22 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |
| 23 | The degree structure is such that an Arts student can often construct a curriculum , with the advice of a Director of Studies , that enables individual interests and aptitudes to be followed . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the Act allows pupils ' family backgrounds , ages and aptitudes to be taken into account by the school in determining whether an act of collective worship which is not of a broadly Christian character takes place in the school . |
| 25 | It 's something of a shock after the deserts of Utah and Arizona to be greeted by Canadian-style pine forests and snow showers in early June . |
| 26 | At Chilgrove 1 , the coin series ends with Magnentius , and Alec Down , the excavator , suggests an amalgamation with Chilgrove 2 which could represent the kind of reorganization to be expected . |
| 27 | And even if she had decided to use a delivery service , there would normally be a full check-list to be ticked off before parting with any money . |
| 28 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 29 | The children sang songs to be relayed throughout the company 's camps for members of its children 's Tiger Club . |
| 30 | Song thrushes normally have a large song repertoire , and Slater suggests that the trimphone sound has been taken up because it is sufficiently similar to the normal songs to be learned and imitated ; he calls this the ‘ Buzby effect ’ . |