Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constructed index is transformed so as to move from 0 in 1970 Q4 to a peak of unity assumed to be reached in 1989 Q4 . |
| 2 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 3 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 4 | Detailed clauses ensured that ( i ) the President once elected could not be a member of a political party ; ( ii ) the military were denied seats in the Senate ; ( iii ) members of the Securitate and militia bodies guilty of repression and public officials guilty of abuses were not eligible for election ; ( iv ) candidates for election to the Assembly of Deputies had to be over 21 years of age and for the presidency and Senate over 30 , with no upper age limit ; ( v ) prisoners and the mentally handicapped were not eligible for election or to vote ; ( vi ) independent candidates were eligible to stand for the Senate and Assembly if supported by at least 250 electors and for the presidency if supported by 100,000 electors ; ( vii ) the votes of Romanian citizens abroad via diplomatic missions , consulates or trade agencies would be treated as votes cast in the city of Bucharest ; ( viii ) the financing of political parties from abroad was forbidden ; ( ix ) strict procedures would be applied to check and validate nominations ; ( x ) hours of polling would be from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m . |
| 5 | All others were reduced to the ‘ non-historical ’ , the rubbish of ages bound to be swept into one or other Great Power but , in the short term , dangerous instruments of the Tsar or the Habsburgs . |
| 6 | ‘ The army will concentrate on Quatre Bras , ’ the Duke of Wellington seemed to be speaking to himself as though he groped towards a solution of the problem Napoleon posed , ‘ but we sha n't stop him there , and if so , ’ Wellington 's gaze flicked across the map , then settled , ‘ I must fight him , ’ he paused again to lean over the map for a few final seconds , ‘ here . ’ |
| 7 | As the church began to take shape the fivefold Vineyard philosophy of ministry began to be applied and still forms the church 's reason for being . |
| 8 | There were some indications that users of freelancers might make slightly greater use of agency workers , but equally that high users of part-timers tended to be lower users of agency workers . |
| 9 | Mark crossed Parliament Square and even the statue of Churchill appeared to be growling at the sorry state of affairs in the land where a pettifogging ex-apprentice was invited to address Right Honourable Members of both Houses . |
| 10 | Other factors , like the economic standards of communities , the design , quality , management and maintenance of houses had to be examined . |
| 11 | This of course had to be monitored and accountable a as it is at present in the Southern region where we can already see the benefits . |
| 12 | Right , the arch braces of course had to be put in because they were if you look at it you 'll see that they were actually sawn off . |
| 13 | Neither Alan nor Paul really accept that lab is an objective measure of ability ; they simply see it as a set of rules made to be broken . |
| 14 | In the 1940s and 1950s a new kind of fiction began to be cultivated by the likes of Borges , Onetti , Sábato , Asturias , Carpentier , Rulfo , Arguedas and Roa Bastos . |
| 15 | Thus between 1965 and 1971 there were 56 records from the coast of birds presumed to be on passage , between 9 August and 17 December , and 32 similar spring records between 23 February and 30 April . |
| 16 | The revolutionary had to spread , methods of teaching had to be discovered — Ponce left no record of his technique — and teachers found . |
| 17 | The captors were demanding the money in small-denomination bills , so huge numbers of notes had to be treated . |
| 18 | The reductionist approach was not providing results in cancer research and I thought that something other than the presently known properties of carcinogens had to be involved as a activator . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 20 | To make them indicate seasonal hours , either the rate of flow or the scale of hours had to be varied according to the time of year , and considerable ingenuity appears to have been applied to achieve this . |
| 21 | The areas of experience seemed to be reserved for describing areas such as arts and applied crafts ( aesthetic and creative experience ) , and history , geography , economics , social and environmental studies ( social and political education ) . |
| 22 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 23 | The palynological analysis has not been able to identify the exact level of the unconformity but a thin sequence of coals believed to be above the unconformity generally demonstrate Westphalian C ages . |
| 24 | Under the Tudors , the granting of money continued to be one of the prime parliamentary functions . |
| 25 | THE tiny Pyrenean principality of Andorra appeared to be heading for a ‘ yes ’ vote yesterday on a new constitution to reform a rule run largely on feudal lines . |
| 26 | Just as the quantities of steel produced or wheat harvested had to grow constantly , so too the population of Romania had to be encouraged to reach a size appropriate to the greatness of its rulers . |
| 27 | on appeal from a taxation it was held that it was wrong to depress hourly rates to justify an unjustifiable mark-up. a mark-up in excess of 100% had to be justified by showing that the case was exceptional . |
| 28 | To administer and collect income tax a new arm of administration had to be created comprising experts , officials and clerks : an " army " which in terms of its efficiency and rapacity came to be the equal of the long-esteemed Excise . |
| 29 | With plenty of stock said to be on offer , the market price quickly dropped back 36 to £11.05 in the wake of Wall Street 's decline . |
| 30 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is falling in all countries for which reliable data are available there are still certain groups of subjects believed to be at increased risk of developing this disease . |