Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun pl] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixteen US states are allowing convicts to be hired for telemarketing , prompting renewed calls for the curbing of telesales to the home . |
| 2 | The biological aim of the meal has been to enable foodstuffs to be taken into the body for its growth and repair . |
| 3 | Police do n't believe the abduction 's linked with a string of of sex attacks in Milton Keynes which they 're still investigating , but they are warning women to be on their guard . |
| 4 | Police are warning farmers to be on their guard . |
| 5 | POLICE are warning residents to be on their guard after two men tricked a pensioner out of several hundred pounds . |
| 6 | Finally , local trading standards officials in Oxfordshire are urging parents to be on their guard against a children 's chemistry set containing a potentially lethal substance . |
| 7 | We 're training girls to be people , as we 're training boys to be people . |
| 8 | We 're training girls to be people , as we 're training boys to be people . |
| 9 | The Tommy Campaign aims to raise £3million this year , it is based at St. Thomas 's Hospital , London , and its objectives are to help babies to be born healthy and to promote the value of parenthood . |
| 10 | The current emphasis upon ‘ empowerment ’ , and the belief that ‘ the more self-empowered a person becomes , the more able he or she will be to enable others to be the same ’ ( Fenton and Hughes 1989 : 19 ) , is effecting a shift in approach generally , and in my own personal practice , from a passive model of students . |
| 11 | The honourary medical officer of the Longhope lifeboat is Dr Tony , and he would normally be assisting casualties to be uplifted , but that day he himself was to be winched up from the lifeboat to the helicopter , and once that part of the exercise was completed and he was back , safely on deck , I asked him , How was that ? |
| 12 | The trade are preparing standards to be issued by the OFI . |
| 13 | Parents were given rights to be represented on school governing bodies . |
| 14 | Part of the value of parents having access is to enable inaccuracies to be challenged and corrected . |
| 15 | The need here is to encourage children to be precise about what they want to find out in their work . |
| 16 | Their purpose is to require claims to be brought while evidence is still relatively fresh , and to allow the party relying on them to " close the books " on the transaction after a certain period . |
| 17 | By ensuring that the eps figure is unhelpful , the ASB is forcing analysts to be less simple-minded . |
| 18 | It 's teaching children to be good conservationists . |
| 19 | When on a shoot at the Taft Hotel , Dustin warned the Hoffmans , who were standing behind the ropes , to keep behind the barrier and also , knowing of his father 's blighted ambitions to be a director , not to say anything . |
| 20 | The group is expecting customers to be banks , processors and others linked to farming as well as ‘ agro-industrial multinationals ’ , co-operatives and commodity boards . |
| 21 | Well , I think the first starting point is asking men to be self-aware and if one of the untoward consequences of that self-awareness is self-consciousness , then we 'll just have to live with that . |
| 22 | An alternative to the award of an injunction for protecting the interests of applicants pending trial is to allow claims to be made for monetary compensation for loss inflicted by governmental action . |
| 23 | One related consequence of mutual support expectations among affiliated companies is to allow operations to be managed within longer term horizons . |
| 24 | Following objections by Darlington Cycling Forum , British Rail is to allow cycles to be carried on board trains on Sundays on the Saltburn , Darlington and Bishop Auckland line . |
| 25 | This is prevented by LIFESPAN since a DC must reference at least one module to be meaningful ( since it makes no sense to have a DC otherwise as a DC 's sole purpose is to allow modules to be updated ) . |
| 26 | This proved nothing in itself , but it made a mockery of the Commission 's repeated claims to be particularly scientific in its approach . |
| 27 | Perhaps the real reason for the temporary arrangements at Stretford Bridge was to enable trains to be run between there and Bishop 's Castle before agreement to work over the joint line had been reached . |
| 28 | Gina was writing stories to be like Eleanor and also poetry , in imitation of Nigel 's youthful ambitions . |