Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is sometimes due to a generally secretive approach but it is probably more often because of a fear of being made to appear inadequate at the hands of an experienced interviewer . |
| 2 | The real danger today is not of being seen to condone precipitate separatism but , through the impotence of our response so far , of being seen to condone brutal and barbaric behaviour of a kind that has not been seen in Europe since the 1940s . |
| 3 | But most EC members are now no longer ashamed of being seen to strike tactical alliances with Britain . |
| 4 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 5 | Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ? |
| 6 | Many children grow up to enjoy satisfactory lives who are clinically termed severely handicapped , yet they would apparently be at risk of being allowed to die due to the severity of their handicap . |
| 7 | Contraction with is used to generate associated tensors . |
| 8 | Major obstacles remained over combat aircraft numbers , especially with regard to land-based naval aircraft , which the Soviet side had insisted on excluding unless a CFE agreement was to be extended to cover naval arms control in general . |
| 9 | Participatory democracy does need to be strengthened to promote active citizenship at local and national levels . |
| 10 | THE National Tyre Distributors Association are warning motorists not to be tempted to buy cheap imported second-hand tyres . |
| 11 | There can be no serious defensible pedigrees here ( even if we could decide what characteristics had to be inherited to ensure pure descent ) . |
| 12 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 13 | In Hong Kong yesterday the Group of Seven leading industrial nations said they wanted to give new help to Moscow 's reforms , but both they and Russia 's deputy premier stressed that future aid had to be tailored to win Russian hearts and minds . |
| 14 | Are parents going to be invited to see talented children involved in a theatrical performance or are they coming just to see their child ‘ doing something ’ on the stage with all the other children in the school ? |
| 15 | In the Middle Ages , Finland was a land on the north-eastern fringe of Europe to which architectural styles percolated slowly , and had then to be adjusted to suit national and climatic needs . |
| 16 | Rating levels continue to be adjusted to reflect changing patterns in claims experience . |
| 17 | The system uses well and log data to provide on-the-spot reservoir analysis , enabling drilling to be adjusted to maximise well productivity . |
| 18 | You said , ‘ let's pretend to be engaged to tease big brother ’ , and you made it somehow seem as if it was a sudden whim . |
| 19 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 20 | Disciplines have to be undertaken to take special care with potentially flammable items and those which may be chemically/physically unstable when moved from store . |
| 21 | The SVQs are designed to be assessed in the workplace , or , where this is not possible , in simulations which enable assessment to be undertaken to demonstrate consistent , comprehensive performance under workplace conditions including difficult and stressful circumstances . |
| 22 | Decoration work in the house still had to be done and about £2,000 still had to be raised to meet annual running costs . |
| 23 | It went to the extent of stating , ‘ … the TUC could not at any stage commit itself in advance to approve or acquiesce in the methods to be adopted to reach full employment simply because those methods can be shown to be well fitted and even necessary to the achievement of that objective … |
| 24 | A Navy sailing master was permitted to take over command only for the duration of the brief period when it was necessary for the Simonova to be manoeuvred to allow technical officers to service the weapons and telemetry mounted on the platforms . |
| 25 | As far as I 'm aware , the only reason to actually light a fire , make a fire is actually to kill pests , and disease , erm maybe , but those should be in relatively small amounts , so those do need to be incinerated to make sure they 're killed properly . |
| 26 | Efforts will continue to be made to set free Brightness as well as all the other whales and dolphins condemned to a life in which they can not experience the mental stimulation that only the challenges and joys of life in the open ocean can provide . |
| 27 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |
| 28 | Some attempt had to be made to build new links with the existing problem-based material even before the full implications for clients were known . |
| 29 | Clearly , many factors influence reinsertion rates , but these factors and alternative treatments , such as hearing aids , need to be evaluated to avoid repeated operations in young children . |
| 30 | Where the desire of governments to avoid disruption conflicts with other priorities , such as the need to be seen to control public sector pay or working practices , intervention may well be secretive . |