Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 2 | Swindon Town 0 Middlesbrough 1 BERNIE Slaven has been recalled to face Manchester United in the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final first leg at Ayresome Park on Wednesday . |
| 3 | Notice that Wordsworth can play off speech-rhythm against the iambic pattern ; if one reads the extract aloud ‘ List'ning ’ and ‘ Broke ’ , for example , are heard to run counter to the expected rhythm and help the verse to mime what is being described . |
| 4 | Occasionally , when manpower allows , men from the sections are assigned to beat duty and can walk anywhere within the Easton district in order to show a presence and look for minor crime . |
| 5 | Under the CAP , export subsidies are given to bring EC prices down to world prices . |
| 6 | Brezhnev 's scheme for the Persian Gulf may have been intended to reassure India of the Soviet desire for peace in India 's vicinity . |
| 7 | The currency reform had been intended to halt inflation and end the inequality in the terms of trade . |
| 8 | In some cases bodies were covered with red ochre , which may have been intended to simulate blood , in the hope of averting physical extinction . |
| 9 | The bill had been intended to highlight Labour 's continued adherence to the closed shop , until Mr Fowler 's shadow , Mr Tony Blair , last weekend announced the Opposition 's support for the full Social Charter agenda . |
| 10 | Construction work on the reactor , which had been intended to generate electricity both for domestic use and for sale to Belgium and the Netherlands , had commenced in 1972 , and it had been due to start operating in 1979 . |
| 11 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 12 | Other case management experiments have been intended to reduce reliance upon hospital or residential care , and some have shown that this can be achieved while others produce conflicting evidence . |
| 13 | On each occasion , every available manservant had been posted to keep watch for soldiers , and she knew that if ever there was a night Tristram should not come visiting , this was it . |
| 14 | Mr Midgley said the spillage had been traced to near Lartington treatment works , but there were no reports of wildlife or fish being affected . |
| 15 | Bigger classes and lower education standards are predicted as teachers are sacked to save money . |
| 16 | A considerable amount of research has been undertaken to apply GIS methods to evacuation scenarios around hazardous sites . |
| 17 | In recent years considerable research has been undertaken to build computer models of asset performance and returns and their correlation with liabilities . |
| 18 | Physically it is costly because it has been proven to cause ulcers , arthritis and all sorts of other conditions . |
| 19 | The very low prevalence of seropositivity for HIV antibodies in children aged under 6 is encouraging since these children will have received only blood products that had been treated to inactivate HIV . |
| 20 | The newspaper-reading public — and the television audience of some 40 million who had never before been treated to live pictures from the Californian coast — revelled in the pictures of Gromyko and his polish and Czech ‘ wrecking crew ’ ( as John Foster Dulles put it ) who complained , harangued , sulked and finally walked out as amendment after amendment was defeated by the other conferees . |
| 21 | But he had been reared to rule Orkney , and he would keep his place . |
| 22 | Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods . |
| 23 | Sometimes there is a fixed pass mark and leavers receive their certificates graded as I , II , or III ; sometimes passes or grades are adjusted to fit places available in secondary school , but in either case , everyone knows that there are just so many secondary school places , and many , many more aspirants for them . |
| 24 | We are taught to block pain . |
| 25 | ‘ We are taught to resist pain . |
| 26 | Gridiron players are taught to tackle head first , driving their facemask into the opponent 's chest . |
| 27 | Ten to 17-year-olds are taught to take responsibility for themselves , to understand the effects of their crime on the local community and to compensate their victim . |
| 28 | I do not know if scientists are taught to write precis or if arts students are still made to study a little science . |
| 29 | We are taught to raise families and that is a hierarchy that shows no sign of becoming a network . |
| 30 | We are taught to equate beauty with ‘ success ’ , ‘ social mobility ’ and sexual desire . |