Example sentences of "[to-vb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There is talk , still unconfirmed but reasonable enough , that Sparc cloners anxious to finally turn their allegiance to profit are pushing for the port .
2 Members unable to attend are circulated with the research papers on request .
3 Well staggeringly enough I do n't actually have one this week because the only things I have to report are covered at in under energy conservation bill .
4 You may also wish to start up some or all of your LIFESPAN Processes on system reboot — the commands you will wish to include are described in Section 2.9 , Process Startup on System Reboot .
5 Some good ones to try are suggested in the table .
6 All property rights to ANDF are owned by the UK 's Defence Research Agency , which developed and subsequently licensed ANDF to OSF and Unix System Labs — licences are available from both .
7 The use of a spectacle-case for protection and the habit of keeping the lenses clean helps to ensure that these aids to sight are kept in a usable , effective condition .
8 The RSC is working with the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) and the Department of Employment to develop the Indicative register of analytical chemists into a NVQ at level V. The RSC is also contributing to work being undertaken by employer organisations to develop other NVQs , mainly at levels I to III .
9 There still seems to be a lot to be discovered quantitatively about the physical nature of wave damage or erosion and its precise causes , although Komar ( 1976 ) has pointed to work being done in Japan relating wave height and frequency , together with rock properties , to rates of cliff recession .
10 Antibodies to HEV were detected with Diagnostic Biotechnology 's HEV ELISA ( supplied by Genelabs Technologies ) .
11 Antibodies to HEV were found in 80 ( 5.9% ) of 1350 subjects .
12 The practical effects of this regulation were to cause many students to register for 12 modules but participate seriously in only 10 ; to cause them to stack their choices , so that modules which they needed or intended to pass were taken in terms 1 and 2 , and to bias apparent but not real demand towards term 3 .
13 This was allotted out to place in work five aged women , four young girls and one boy , who being able to work were set to spinning hemp .
14 The samples are those juveniles under the age of fourteen years , those charged with burglary and those where the decision of the police to prosecute is overturned by the Crown Prosecutor as not requiring prosecution .
15 However , the freedom to provide or not to provide is regarded as an essential element in that sector , and therefore does not attract the same critical comment .
16 The section they have yet to pass is shown in brackets against their name .
17 No hint of what was to come was given at that meeting on 20 February .
18 So too is the reason why , when the matter of their being able to meet was raised in parliament ( after an article about it had appeared in the Sunday Times in May 1964 ) the Home Secretary , Henry Brooke , denied that the pair had ever met which was plainly untrue .
19 Cures were tried twice without effect , and his licence to box was refused on medical grounds in September 1939 .
20 Damage estimated at costing £100,000 to repair was caused by the blaze .
21 Throughout the 1950s the size of work they were able to find was determined by economic growth and the legacy of colonial attitudes .
22 AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up .
23 It would be anomalous if the right to rescind was lost at an earlier date when the misrepresentation does not become a term of the contract .
24 Some of the animals which he used to shoot are seen above his head
25 I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way .
26 ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma .
27 ( with whom Fox and Russell L.JJ. agreed ) said , at pp. 991–992 : ‘ But if the supposed duty to consult were to depend upon the facts and urgency of each case , enforcement authorities would be faced with a serious dilemma .
28 His earlier association with Vane ( who had actually tried to resist being replaced by his own deputy ) did not prevent Hutchinson from remaining in office under the Cromwellian Protectorate .
29 The role of the zebra in the relationship seems too innocent and wronged to warrant the pejorative ‘ enemy ’ But individual zebras do everything in their power to resist being eaten by lions , and from the lions ' point of view this is making life harder for them .
30 A free afternoon to explore is followed by a welcome party .
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