Example sentences of "[conj] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.

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1 Supervisors with Scottish research interests may have moved elsewhere ; the purposes of the research may have changed within universities ; Research Council funding for such research may have changed or been re-distributed to other universities .
2 The advice from the group once again raised the sensitive issue of employing staff who admit to being , or are discovered to be infected .
3 alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I
4 In this approach , solutions in the interaction region for or are related to the functions and , and hence S may be obtained as a function of f and g .
5 Whether these values represent the upper extreme of normality or are related to the underlying colonic disease , long term medication , or other factors is not clear .
6 The assimilative approach , Gusfield suggests , is associated with groups that are largely secure , where the values and opinions they hold either are , or are perceived to be , supported by the majority of the population .
7 It has particularly focused on Renaissance literature and the struggles for dominance which are enacted in it , or are assumed to be .
8 The enclaves of very large dogwhelks around Porlock Weir in the Severn Estuary , between Swanage and Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast and at some sites in the west of Scotland are sublittoral or are confined to the extreme lower shore .
9 The majority of IBM RS/6000 servers however , are installed in commercial environments , or are linked to systems which do not meet IDC 's technical criteria for workstations and are therefore not counted in workstation market figures , the Framingham , Massachusetts research outfit says .
10 The majority of IBM RS/6000 servers however , are installed in commercial environments , or are linked to systems that do not meet IDC 's technical criteria for workstations and are therefore not counted in workstation market figures , the Framingham , Massachusetts research outfit says .
11 Mostly they do administrative work inside the station , drive for the section inspector , or are seconded to administrative work elsewhere in the station .
12 I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government .
13 The letter rogatory specifies those facts and circumstances causing the requesting party reasonably to believe that the requested documents are or were in the possession , control , or custody of , or are known to the person from whom the documents are requested .
14 4.20 Where clients are thought to be or are known to be a risk or danger to themselves , other clients or other people and are admitted to a residential or day care facility , their progress must be explicitly monitored by the officer in charge who should keep the line manager informed .
15 For longer-distance migration the destinations are likely to be places that are better known to tourists or are considered to be scenically more attractive .
16 Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations .
17 This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope .
18 Animals can not be parties to a lawsuit , or be said to be guilty , they can not be subject to the duties that attach to rights .
19 In Cornwall , some of the most intractable of wastes can be used for agriculture , for ornamental gardens and playing fields , or be converted to semi-natural habitat , as woodland or heath .
20 To join or be sent to a concentration camp .
21 One might expect one 's money to be used to buy holidays or be handed to charity , but that is not what happens .
22 They should then not be left standing if other guests are seated , but shown to chairs on one side of the hall , or be directed to the seating plans so that they can fill the places kept for them , or go to seats left empty by ‘ no-shows ’ such as anyone taken ill at the last minute .
23 In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live .
24 The hotel or hall staff can arrange chairs , drinks , and someone to direct and greet the late arrivals , who can then view the wedding presents , or be introduced to each other until a suitable moment arrives for them to enter the dining hall .
25 Sufficiently small objects will either be entirely ablated , or be aerobraked to free-fall speeds .
26 Another plan is for the new partners to be admitted merely on undertaking to contribute their share of the partnership capital , and this may either be raised by borrowing from a bank or insurance company ( with periodic repayments ) or be left to be paid over a period of years by deduction from their share of the profits .
27 Some leases contain rather more elaborate provisos such as : " no demand for or acceptance of rent by the landlord or its agents with knowledge of a breach of any of the covenants on the part of the tenant contained in these presents shall be or be deemed to be a waiver wholly or partially of any such breach but such breach shall be deemed to be a continuing breach of covenant " .
28 To claim that 1 know that my postal code is NW3 2RT is evidently to claim or be committed to more than that 1 believe it .
29 It is to claim or be committed to the fact external to me that my code is NW3 2RT .
30 It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy .
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