Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The plan for 1988 was that the discount rate was to be fixed each month at 1 per cent above the equivalent annual rate of increase in industrial prices in the previous month . |
2 | The Brahman Centre for learning mental skills is in Provence and you 'll be one of a select few at a time to be taught these techniques . |
3 | ON 13th May , 1992 the Holy Father formally established a new World Day for the Sick to be observed each year on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on 11th February . |
4 | Figure 2.3 illustrates a production flow in the TV industry with just three stages , but these would have to be extended many times to include all the firms involved . |
5 | Some 150 wolves are likely to be killed this year in the region , which is home to the Delta herd of caribou , whose numbers have fallen from 10,700 to 4,500 . |
6 | Relatives are valuable and ought to be treated that way . |
7 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
8 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
9 | Besides , the girl has done nothing wrong , and I can not allow her to be treated this way . ’ |
10 | The Marshal had arrived in time , as he had promised , to see Cipolla delivered to the court and taken upstairs , chained between two other prisoners whose appeals were to be heard that morning . |
11 | Up to 1.2 million cubic metres are expected to be cut this year — three or four times as much as in 1991 . |
12 | A growth annulus is assumed to be deposited each year , and microscopic rings are thought to record the length of lunar , daily and tidal cycles . |
13 | Affirmative evidence rebutting that implication would , I think , be needed if it were to be contended that paragraph ( b ) had not been satisfied . |
14 | The highest point on the mountain was , he remembered , to be gained that way , but he would need to go back along the path and so would meet Detective Furness and prick the bubble of aloneness in which he was so happy . |
15 | Proceeds from the game will be given to charity The game is to be at the end of August at Northallerton 's ground on a date to be arranged Former players from the 60s to the present day are asked to contact John Murdoch ( 0609771139 ) or David Thorne ( 0609779465 ) |
16 | Even for somebody who spoke French it was a mouthful , and it was tedious because it had to be repeated each time one spoke to a Corporal or Sergeant . |
17 | Such experiences would need to be repeated many times before there was a lasting effect , but this , of course is irrelevant in the context of the immensity of evolutionary time . |
18 | It was an experience to be repeated many times as the canal climbed to the top of the Pennines . |
19 | Probably yes , but no one can be certain of safety in this context ; the field is too new , and since treatment may have to be repeated many times , even an unlikely event may eventually happen . |
20 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
21 | It 's early morning on the Forest Vale industrial estate in Cinderford , and company boss Roger Sanderson starts work outside his plastic mouldings factory.But while other businessmen are checking their ansaphones and fax machines , he 's faced with swilling down sheep droppings left by the flocks that roam the estate.It 's a task that has to be repeated several times a day , and Mr Sanderson has had enough. : |
22 | Performance did not improve — road and air increasingly cut into the rail markets — and the railways were now in the political arena , to be tugged this way and that with every change of government . |
23 | It was a relief when a secretary appeared — sent by his oldest daughter — and summoned him away on business that had to be decided that night . |
24 | so er we have to be decided either way |
25 | During outages , as many as 20 have to be moved each day . |
26 | A gantry traffic light will be installed above the centre of the road , hand railing will provide additional protection for pedestrians , and the bus stop outside Milroy Walk is likely to be moved some metres south and recessed into the wide pavement . |
27 | The very poorest , who depend on state benefits , will be relieved of paying much of the charge , but those with just enough income to be denied this relief will suffer severely . |
28 | Now patients are to be denied this choice — a complete contradiction of the commitment given by Government . |
29 | Who are they to be denied any chance of having future pension rights secured under new clause 4 and amendment No. 17 ? |
30 | The purpose of the Monday morning assembly was to meet the Director of the week , his team of assistants , and to read through the script of the episode due to be recorded that Friday . |