Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baggage area behind that is quite spacious , although the small baggage door is only just big enough to allow a flight size case through , which means anything larger needs to be manhandled over the seats . |
| 2 | This heavy construction , which has good sound-insulating properties , provided an economic solution to the problem posed by the need to insert new floors in spite of the fact that all the beams had to be manhandled into position because there was no access for mechanical handling . |
| 3 | But it was no easy task , and heavy equipment had to be manhandled for about a mile from the nearest road . |
| 4 | Students will need to be piloted through the maze of attainment targets , and in the fourth and fifth years particularly they will need advice on which core and foundation subjects to follow to GCSE and which to follow for what the Act coyly describes as ‘ a reasonable time ’ . |
| 5 | The remainder of the forest wastes was in most cases divided between the lords of the manors and the commoners , in proportion to the value of their interests : the allotments were then to be fenced at the expense of the proprietors . |
| 6 | They were also closely linked , for provoking or allowing the return of Republican " chaos " and , therefore , the disintegration of the nation , was the ultimate , awful responsibility to be pondered by putative dissenters in the Francoist camp . |
| 7 | It is in the nature of the law , however , to be couched in abstract terms . |
| 8 | Although we acknowledge that the National Curriculum is presented in a conservative context , and probably has to be couched in conventional terms , we are conscious of its lack of a ‘ qualitative thrust ’ , its inability to cater for all we want to offer all our students . |
| 9 | Dunleavy also notes the similarity of much local authority service provision in the 1950s and 1960s , and argues persuasively for an explanation of such uniform local political activity to be couched in non-local terms . |
| 10 | Tory Cathedral ward representatives Jim Melville and John Candler called for the objection to be couched in the strongest terms . |
| 11 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |
| 12 | People will then not have to be burdened with the labels of friction and division . |
| 13 | If the video is intended to be little more than shots of the folks taken as and when opportunity offers , you will obviously wish to be burdened with the barest minimum of tackle . |
| 14 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 15 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 16 | Tomonori Tsurumaki , Japanese industrialist who bought Picasso 's ‘ Les Noces de Pierette ’ for £33.1 million ( $51.6 million ) at auction in Paris in 1989 , is rumoured to be burdened with heavy debts . |
| 17 | Of course Harry would not want to be burdened with her , even if he could afford to start up his stud at Maythorpe House . |
| 18 | They do not seem to be burdened with the same difficulties as the private profession , presumably partly because of the different image of the agency involved and the different expectations of the client involved . |
| 19 | Frodo can see that Boromir would be ruined by the Ring if he took it , and even though he would quite like to dispose of it himself , he refuses to allow Boromir to be burdened with it . |
| 20 | This project was the first to be overseen by the new Clerk to the Governors , Mr. T. R. Ellis , an Old Stopfordian who had been appointed when the previous Clerk retired in 1942 . |
| 21 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 22 | A new electoral law , passed by the National Assembly on April 18 , 1989 , and signed by Ortega on April 22 , provided for elections to be overseen by a new Supreme Electoral Council comprising five members elected by the National Assembly from among candidates proposed by the President , including two from opposition parties . |
| 23 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 24 | The Club , however , made the best of it and handed the Station Commander RAF Gatow a cheque for DM10,000 that was to be split between SSAFA and RAFA . |
| 25 | Wednedsay 's announcement still implies that the crucial science base of the NCC is to be split between Scotland , Wales and England , and the Chief Scientist 's post abolished . |
| 26 | There was even a touch of irony in the fact that the proceeds from the gala evening given at Covent Garden by the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre were to be split between the Mariinsky itself and the Royal Opera House Trust . |
| 27 | But the gap between amateur and expert must be bridged if society is not to be split between two cultures . |
| 28 | Now , like environmentalism , the animal protection movement appears to be split between pragmatic and idealistic factions . |
| 29 | It is common for funding to be split between books and periodicals , since these two types of material are acquired in different ways , and in this case book finding is almost always further subdivided by subject . |
| 30 | Financial costs of establishing the programme are to be split between OSF and Protek , likewise ; revenues generated by the project will be spilt between the two . |