Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [vb base] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The positions Into which seasonal workers are placed tend to be relatively unskilled ones demanding little or no previous experience . |
| 2 | As Hirsch ( 1977 ) points out , sexual relationships that are bought tend to be looked down on in our society compared with those that are freely chosen . |
| 3 | Although these technical advances will not significantly alter the dominant influence of climate on the length of the growing season or on the difficulty of harvesting crops in the hills , the ideas on which they are based seem to be relevant and applicable to a wide range of hill environments and can accommodate many of the regional variations in farming practice . |
| 4 | To be properly executed under the 1974 Act rules about the form and number of copies to be supplied have to be complied with . |
| 5 | The holy grail of limitless energy , ‘ harnessing the power of the Sun on Earth ’ , is metaphorically an irresistible force and today , 40 years after the quest began and with over twenty billion dollars already spent trying to achieve it , the barriers to be overcome seem to be immovable . |
| 6 | The depth and complexity of problems to be overcome begin to be apparent . |
| 7 | Somewhere in the process , hopefully at the beginning , the design rules that will be followed have to be established , either as a written specification or electronically in the form of a style sheet or template . |
| 8 | The underlying values by which organizations are to be run have to be strongly set through a variety of management processes — in particular , through reinforcement by top management and the reward system . |
| 9 | JustText obeys the normal Macintosh rules of pull-down menus and so on but all the commands to control the way in which the text will be printed have to be typed in as codes like { f9 } or { us } . |
| 10 | Thirty-four of the total of 40 buildings that were discovered remain to be explored . |
| 11 | However , the cases where the victim is named tend to be the cases which attract widespread or sustained coverage ( or both ) . |
| 12 | The sixteen giant stainless steel tanks in which this waste is kept have to be constantly agitated and cooled to stop the liquid either precipitating or becoming too hot . |
| 13 | The very terms in which the question was posed need to be critically reconsidered . |
| 14 | The criteria by which this " sub-humanity " was defined deserve to be noted . |