Example sentences of "they [be] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But have n't they been closed to visitors ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Lightweight dinghies should n't be used unless they are tethered to the shore , ’ said Peter Race . |
| 3 | They are assigned to a team and introduced ( if that 's the word ) to their team leader . |
| 4 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 5 | Rather , organizational goals are what they are perceived to be by officials who have been socialized into the organizational ‘ way of life ’ and who strive in a highly co-ordinate fashion to bring about collectively their realization . |
| 6 | However we make sure that they are manufactured to the latest BSI standards using only the best quality materials . |
| 7 | ‘ They are geared to the narrow dimensions of their own sports . |
| 8 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 9 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 10 | They are condemned to a life of misery in cramped breeding colonies . |
| 11 | The net result is that once the protons have overcome the initial fusion hurdle they are converted to 4 He , radiating energy in the process . |
| 12 | Price Waterhouse is testing its ‘ START ’ scheme , which should reduce the number of graduates but increase the standard they are trained to . |
| 13 | I have to say though that it 's usually very embarrassing to see a group of professional dancers dancing in a club — because they are trained to be self-conscious , they ca n't let go of themselves . |
| 14 | Hudson points to the fact that , not only are these terms applied by pupils to the arts and sciences , but also they are recognized to a large degree by those , like himself , working within psychology . |
| 15 | Covering countryside such as the Chilterns and the South Downs , they are intended to be areas of special planning control with strong accent on the visual and environmental effects of any development . |
| 16 | Both brushes and foam can also take on a partial biofiltering role , but if they are intended to be a mechanical filter , they should be cleaned before they clog . |
| 17 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |
| 18 | They are intended to be used to consolidate or to revise language which has already been presented in other ways . |
| 19 | Most ELT series are intended to supplement what is in the textbook not to replace it and they are intended to be used to consolidate the learning of language that has already been presented in another form . |
| 20 | Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature . |
| 21 | Legal aid is not generally available for tribunals , they are intended to be cheap and both sides are clearly expected to bear their own costs . |
| 22 | Other aspects of the grammar and phonology of these sentences ( from different speakers ) make it clear that they are intended to be " Patois " . |
| 23 | Buyers often attempt to include express warranties stating that goods will be suitable for the purpose for which they are intended to be used by the buyer , or suitable for the purpose for which they are ordinarily or generally used . |
| 24 | There is not much comfort for the museum in the knowledge that celebrated works are impossible to fence ; the idiosyncratic choice of stolen works strongly suggests that one buyer 's taste was being followed and that they are destined to be hidden away in a private collection , possibly in South America or Japan . |
| 25 | In these cases , if the aim of the interviewer is to ‘ solve people 's problems ’ they are destined to failure and the stress that goes with it . |
| 26 | Permanently placed at Number 55 in the not-quite-so-top 100 , they are destined to be remembered as yet another band Virgin failed to encourage into the charts ( famous last words part 136 ) . |
| 27 | There 's none of the rigorous logic and choreographed confusion of real farce , and director Jude Kelly labours under the mistaken impression that if the characters rush around and shout a lot , then they are bound to be funny . |
| 28 | one should not confuse … two things : the fragmentation of social labour , which arises from the fact of the social division of labour on the one hand , and the fragmentation of social labour , which negates this very division of labour on the other hand … ‘ enterprises ’ … stand in various relationships to each other : either they are bound to each other by buying and selling ( heterogeneous enterprises ) , or they are in competition with each other ( homogeneous enterprises ) . |
| 29 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 30 | ‘ Liverpool had also bought Mark Wright and when a club has spent more than £5m they are bound to be looking to recoup some money . |