Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , although some physical geographers perceive hydrology to be a separate field of scientific enquiry and , for example , Progress in Physical Geography maintains progress reports on fluvial geomorphology as well as on hydrology , other physical geographers have advocated the notion of geographical hydrology . |
| 2 | It is the county council 's responsibility to bring forward proposals to enable progress to be made . |
| 3 | I did n't want Mum to be alone , now she 'd left Ted and Jean , and moved back into our old house . |
| 4 | ‘ How can he be a Copt and bring money to be given to a Moslem for the Moslem to use against the Copts ? ’ |
| 5 | Peter and Paul do not want Mummy to be ill or to have HC themselves , but at the moment there is no sure way to know for everyone . |
| 6 | Formatwise , Hooker has stuck rigidly to the formula that turned ‘ The Healer ’ into a Grammy-grabber , with a miscellany of guests — in this instance Vaughan , John Hammond , Robert Cray , Charlie Musselwhite , Albert Collins etc — effectively fitting into selected niches while producer Roy Rogers creates an aura that , while allowing Hooker to be his usual minimalistic down-homey self , provides an urgency guaranteed to have the rock generation continuing to hang on the 72-year-old 's every ‘ uh uh ’ . |
| 7 | Because of cultural , family or personality factors many people may suppress their grief , but allowing grief to be expressed often reduces its intensity or duration . |
| 8 | However , a simple router table , allowing stock to be passed over a static cutter , is a fairly essential next step after purchasing a router . |
| 9 | Instead " the clause must be limited and modified to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract " ( per Lord Denning in Sze Hai Tong Bank Ltd v Rambler Cycle Co Ltd [ 1959 ] AC 576 ; see also Alexander v Railway Executive [ 1951 ] 2 KB 882 ) . |
| 10 | No matter how wide the terms of the clause , the courts will limit it and modify it to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract . |
| 11 | They also want funding to be made available from new sources responsible for unemployment , to help the CAB cope with unemployment related stresses . |
| 12 | The Kurdish leaders reportedly asked for an arms supply route to be opened through Turkey to assist the Kurdish insurrection in northern Iraq . |
| 13 | I would have expected Esquire to be a little more imaginative than to jump on the anti-Essex bandwagon and to realize that you do n't have to be brainless to live in Braintree . |
| 14 | Acceptance enables you not to have to hide things about yourself and to find freedom to be yourself . |
| 15 | Both countries want industry to be more competitive , but differ in their recipes for using science and technology . |
| 16 | In fact , he believes that the formation of C&P has in the event been a powerful factor in enabling research to be rationalized throughout the whole ICI Group . |
| 17 | Many of the pre-independence laws enabling action to be taken against privately owned media have been enforced by the new African governments , despite the fact that most new leaders issued statements which committed them to the ideals of free mass media and free expression of opinion . |
| 18 | The lowering of pH in fact causes aluminium to be released from clays ( in which it abounds ) , and this causes the fish 's gills to produce mucus , which reduces their ability to absorb oxygen . |
| 19 | But when she reached the office she found concentration to be almost impossible , and within a short time she became impatient with herself . |
| 20 | She had refused to have her husband cremated , not because she had anything so fanciful as a religious objection to cremation , but because she quite erroneously considered cremation to be a new-fangled idea , and she objected to the new . |
| 21 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis . |
| 22 | Rafferty found Law to be ‘ expensive , aggressive , big-headed , eccentric , moody and petulant . |
| 23 | The panels were built up from small components , enabling work to be subcontracted to a large number of small engineering firms without disrupting heavy engineering production . |
| 24 | Although the steaming was successful the locomotive still has work to be undertaken on the brake gear . |
| 25 | You can consider exercise to be any movement you make . |
| 26 | I want all this to be in the open , to be accepted , I want truth to be told . |
| 27 | That principle is designed to encourage waste to be disposed of at the nearest available facility . |
| 28 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 29 | POLICE in Cleveland last night warned people depositing cash to be extra vigilant after a company director was robbed outside a bank . |
| 30 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |