Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was — and still is — an affront to those who respected the great classic guitars , having to see them being used as dispensable stage props ! |
| 2 | The sick who had no one to tend them were spread through the inner , inhabited core of the city , in the monasteries , in the hospice of the Knights of St John with their double chapels . |
| 3 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 4 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 5 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 6 | I do not want my new friends to know I am connected to a boring man like you . |
| 7 | The slide away that many people accept as being inevitable is based on a number of assumptions we are conditioned to accept which are reinforced by the comments of others . |
| 8 | ‘ Remember that I do n't want Clare to know she 's included in the trust until she apologizes ! |
| 9 | An opportunity for some of this pressure to vent itself was provided in the early sixties . |
| 10 | Alter notifying our Commander , we chugged over in our motor boat to find she was crewed by a schoolmaster and several of his senior boys . |
| 11 | Then one morning on her way to work she was distracted by a commotion across the street and as she crossed she saw the owner of the hand being thrown out of a shop . |
| 12 | The thing is , with this I do n't think half the people listen to you 're meant to know you 're meant to , in these exams you 're meant to have everything you should know and everything else |
| 13 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 14 | HEALTH inspectors swooped on a flower stall suspected of illegally selling tortoises — only to find they were made of stone . |
| 15 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |
| 16 | He arrives to find it being searched by the Czechoslovakian police . |
| 17 | Some churches have found it helpful to set out a few simple guidelines to indicate what is entailed in responsible church membership' . |
| 18 | Interest received by the bank(s) is used , firstly , to meet what are referred to as the funding costs of the loan . |
| 19 | Fundamental is the need to relate whatever is studied to the child 's own experience , and also to awaken motivation and stimulate enquiry . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's my boy — I 've a right to know what 's become of him ! ’ |
| 21 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 22 | Most media professionals appear to know what is expected of them in their various organisations , each of which has different political backers , and the media product tends to be created accordingly . |
| 23 | You need to know what is required of you . |
| 24 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 25 | " Now , I do n't want to know what was discussed at the meeting ; if I did I could find that out easily enough . |
| 26 | It would enable staff to know what was expected of them , to have professional support and encouragement and opportunities provided for future improvement . |
| 27 | Constance , on her side , had become sufficiently worldly to know what was expected of her when she returned home . |
| 28 | ‘ Winters always wanted to know what was expected of him ’ , recalls Roger Uttley . |
| 29 | The purpose of these names is to establish what is known as brand identity . |
| 30 | Before discussing whether they have a place in children 's reading today , it is necessary to establish what is meant by ‘ the classics ’ . |