Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
| 2 | ‘ If the right to be heard is to be a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . ’ |
| 3 | Before handing in your script , make sure that all your unwanted work is crossed out and that all work to be presented is in order . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't deny that the only advantage to be gained is on your side , ’ Travis countered coldly . |
| 5 | The temperature range of the fish to be kept was from 70°s ; F ( 21°s ; C ) to 82°s ; F ( 28°s ; C ) so the temperature was set at 79°s ; F ( 26°s ; C ) . |
| 6 | The activities in which citizens are to be engaged are to be far removed from any levers of real political power . |
| 7 | The practical transfer function is very close to unity for the required direct component of the potential difference if low-loss reactors are incorporated yet is very tiny at the ripple frequency if is made very small compared with the ripple pulsatance ( 200π for full-wave rectification , since the ripple to be smoothed is at twice the mains frequency ) . |
| 8 | To be governed is to be subjected to the regular pressure of an authority operating according to fixed rules . |
| 9 | The most likely of these barrages to be built is across the Mersey , which would meet half of Liverpool 's electricity needs . |
| 10 | The need to be served is in turn prescribed , in this instance , by the centre . |
| 11 | Thus , the first major distinction to be made is between the major TNCs , the Fortune 500 type of corporations and the rest . |
| 12 | When speaking of laying tesserae , the main distinction to be made is between direct and indirect methods of application : the choice depends on the abilities and preferences of the mosaicist . |
| 13 | ( One film surely crying out to be made is about a special-effects team which finds that their creatures are coming to independent life and taking over the movie — or the studio , or the world ) . |
| 14 | We 'll be saying is that the first appointment of investigative staff to be made is of a complaint examiner . |
| 15 | As might be expected from the above , the most extensive changes to be made were in procedures for recording audit work . |
| 16 | The only way in which these late pouch excisions are likely to be minimised is by greater care in patient selection , particularly the identification of Crohn 's disease . |
| 17 | What needs to be done is for the leaders who gather in Edinburgh to accept all that and begin to forge the new kind of European Community which is needed . |
| 18 | The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep . |
| 19 | The submission which Mr. Lester makes on the other hand is not restricted by reference to the type of statute and indeed the only way in which it could be discovered whether help was to be given is by considering Hansard itself . |
| 20 | However , the module to be scanned must reside in your current VMS directory , together with any necessary foreign files if the module to be scanned is of type FOREIGN , otherwise an error will be reported . |
| 21 | So convinced are such people that to be impaired is to ‘ die ’ that no amount of protestation to the contrary seems to make any difference . |
| 22 | Bentham 's intention here was explicit , for as he remarked ( Works , IV p 70 ) : " It is obvious that the more the persons to be inspected are under the eyes of the persons who should inspect them , the more perfectly will the purpose of the establishment have been attained . |
| 23 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 24 | Where the company to be formed is of a kind which can be purchased ‘ off the peg ’ from an agency specializing in company formation , this is a cost-effective way to proceed . |
| 25 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 26 | The latest of the upgrades to be offered is for WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows . |
| 27 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 28 | If we take this into account , the total length of DNA to be specified is at most 10 8 base pairs . |
| 29 | A year after the Armenian earthquake , the only place where any sense of comfort and relief seems to be found is in the Italian Village , writes Jonathan Steele . |
| 30 | The first scrambling to be found is in Birchin Clough , which rises at the head of the trio of reservoirs above the village of Greenfield . |