Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 2 | This latter system , which was then available in at least some cases in Belgium , France , Greece , Italy and the Netherlands , allows legally effective service on a defendant resident abroad to be made by leaving the relevant document at the office of the parquet in the forum state . |
| 3 | With costly building work still to be done , Liverpool are faced with their worst cash crisis of modern times , despite winning the FA Cup last season . |
| 4 | He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him . |
| 5 | But copper , the major London Metal Exchange contract still to be denominated in pounds , did benefit . |
| 6 | Their cornucopian haul was to realise more than £10,000 in bills and banknotes , thus making it the largest highway robbery yet to be achieved . |
| 7 | Cover with a piece of oiled foil or greaseproof paper and a board , or the base of one of the removable-base tart or cake tins now to be found in many kitchen utensil shops , to fit exactly inside the dish . |
| 8 | THE biggest swimming event ever to be held in the area , the European Sprint championships featuring many of the world 's top swimmers , will take place at Felling on November 27–28 next year . |
| 9 | HEALTH watchdogs yesterday welcomed news of a vital body scanner soon to be installed at Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 10 | In order to escape from the situation , my two colleagues below the surface unhooked from the safety line only to be swept away by the current . |
| 11 | Any rock and border plants still to be lifted , split-up and re-planted should be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 12 | We have doubled our medical input to our immunisation clinics and struggled through the difficulties of vaccine availability only to be informed that we are working for no reward . |
| 13 | One of the finest wall paintings yet to be uncovered in Britain has been found in the chapel at Chester Castle . |
| 14 | The problem of how the digger wasp locates her home has a special place in the history of ethology : it was one of the first questions about behaviour mechanisms ever to be asked , and experimentally answered . |
| 15 | They say cheap beer imports are hitting the government 's pocket and they want beer taxes here to be frozen . |
| 16 | ‘ Withdrawal ’ means removal from the library stock either to be thrown away ( discarding ) or donated to another library . |
| 17 | If we acted unilaterally , we should end up putting out of business our own egg producers just to be flooded with eggs produced under the very system that we had banned . |
| 18 | These are the direct forerunners of the legal advice centres now to be referred to and all such centres relied exclusively on volunteer professional legal personnel . |
| 19 | Second on the agenda after establishing a good personal relationship is trade and the economy , with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks still to be completed . |
| 20 | He confessed in the magazine Psychology Today to being uneasy with fans who asked him to make their day by autographing their guns . |
| 21 | We have gathered together the largest and most spectacular collection of Indian BANJARA embroidery ever to be shown in the UK . |
| 22 | FRENCH PABX MAKER BARPHONE CLOSE TO BEING ACQUIRED |
| 23 | The Financial Services Act requires insurance advisers either to be tied to a single insurance company , or to be entirely independent . |
| 24 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 25 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 26 | During the years that the Uganda syllabus panels were meeting , the Lake Victoria Hotel , Entebbe was chosen as the venue for the first in a series of international workshops which heralded a new approach to curriculum development , a new dimension for pan-African co-operation and whose eventual product , the Entebbe Mathematics , proved to be possibly the most influential curriculum project yet to be launched in English — speaking Africa . |
| 27 | Upon landing , he filed an airmiss report only to be told that the glider had landed successfully with part of its wingtip missing near Axel . |
| 28 | East Antrim MP Roy Beggs said : ‘ We remain concerned that the cohesion funding soon to be open to the Irish Republic could totally distort the balance between port facilities in the whole island . ’ |
| 29 | ICE HOCKEY : Barring a miracle , the National Hockey League 's 75th season is over , with the last 30 games of the schedule and the Stanley Cup play-offs still to be played . |
| 30 | In other instances medical intervention via naso-gastric feeding may be necessary to aid the child gain weight sufficiently to be out of immediate danger ( Goldbloom 1984 ) . |